Latest Kidneydisease Podcast Episodes
My Mom is My Person
Living Transplant - May 02, 2024 16:01 - 55 minutesIn this episode of the Living Transplant podcast, host Candice Coghlan was joined by Kelsey Hannah, an OR nurse and mother who went on a journey of health and wellness to lose weight to save her mother's life by donating a portion of her liver to her. We talked about her journey of self reflecti...
A Piece of Me in Heaven
Living Transplant - April 04, 2024 09:40 - 56 minutesWELCOME TO SEASON 5! In this episode, host Candice Coghlan was joined by Vanessa Tait, a Cree woman from O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation who put her heart and soul into supporting her father, Kenneth, through his kidney health journey. She uprooted their lives to move from her father's home communi...
Grateful for the Little Things
Living Transplant - October 12, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutesIn this episode, host, Candice, is joined by Melissa Sidhu who works in healthcare, is a passionate volunteer and living liver donor to her brother over 10 years ago. We spoke about her journey as a donor, relationships with loved ones, how to find tiny moments of joy and gratitude throughout th...
I Choose Life
Living Transplant - September 28, 2023 16:03 - 47 minutesIn this episode, host Candice Coghlan sat down with Afsana Lallani, a cat lover and nursing graduate who made a public social appeal to find a living liver donor to save her life. They talk about being young and living with a chronic illness, facing death and how a supportive community can make ...
Pressure for Change
Living Transplant - September 14, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutesIn this episode, we're celebrating Living Donation Week. Host, Candice was joined by Sylvie Charbonneau, past president of the Kidney Foundation of Canada, advocate, change maker, and living kidney donor to her son. We were also joined by Dr. Joseph Kim, Director of the Kidney Transplant Program...
Ajmera Transplant Centre's 2nd Annual Education & Research Conference
Living Transplant - August 31, 2023 17:07 - 1 hourIn this episode, host Candice, takes you behind the scenes of the Ajmera Transplant Centre's 2nd Annual Education and Research Conference, to hear about incredible science, clinical, and research aspects of transplantation. Hear from the following: Samrat Ray: Expanding the transplant pancreas...
I've done this before, I can do it again.
Living Transplant - August 17, 2023 13:04 - 52 minutesIn this episode, host Candice Coghlan was joined by Justin Poy, a father, entrepreneur, and businessman who has lived with multiple types of renal replacement therapy since the age of 10, including three kidney transplants, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, as well as home dialysis. Justin spok...
Playing with New Lungs
Living Transplant - August 03, 2023 14:35 - 54 minutesIn this episode, host Candice Coghlan sat down with Tara Lisabeth, who received not one, but two double lung transplants at a young age. She spoke about life with cystic fibrosis, what it felt like to take deep breaths and how transplant gave her the opportunity to walk down the aisle and get ma...
Completely Insulin Free
Living Transplant - July 20, 2023 09:30 - 53 minutesIn this episode host, Candice Coghlan sat down with Craig Lindsay, the Senior Manager of Programs and Public Policy for the Kidney Foundation of Canada, Ontario Branch. Craig not only works tirelessly supporting this community, but he's also part of it, having lived with diabetes, which eventual...
I've Learned to Walk 3x in My Life
Living Transplant - July 07, 2023 20:19 - 47 minutesIn this episode, host Candice Coghlan sat down with Shilpa Raju, an epidemiologist who finished her degree while battling cancer. She survived the cancer, however unfortunately the side effects from her treatment caused severe lung damage, resulting in her need for a double lung transplant. Shil...
Waiting for the Science to Catch Up
Living Transplant - June 22, 2023 09:00 - 52 minutesHost Candice Coghlan is joined by Darryl Wallis, who was diagnosed with Hollow Visceral Myopathy at age one. He grew up in and out of hospitals and unable to eat, but about 16 years ago, he received a multi-organ transplant including a liver, bowel, stomach and pancreas, which gave him his life ...
The Rest of Your Sight Life
Living Transplant - June 08, 2023 09:00 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by Amber Needham and her living eye stem cell donor, Kathy O'Toole. They discuss how Amber lost her eyesight twice from unique situations. Amber, Kathy and Candice talk about their remarkable journey as Amber went from 2020 vision to blindness and how she was given...
I Got My Voice Back
Living Transplant - May 25, 2023 09:00 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by Ivica, an opera singer who loves baking, teaching others, and above all else, his family. Ivica discusses his journey with kidney failure and how his brother stepped forward to be his donor, giving him back the strength to sing beautifully. Later we're joined by...
The Queen of My Heart Function
Living Transplant - May 11, 2023 09:30 - 47 minutesHost Candice Coghlan is joined by Charles Cook, an incredibly brave and vibrant person who is a heart and kidney transplant recipient. After far too many close cases with death, Charles has implemented the life motto of ‘keep bangin’. Charles and Candice are later joined by the one of a kind car...
BONUS: Great Actions Leave a Mark - Paul
Living Transplant - April 27, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutesIn September, 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave a Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients from across Canada. This week you will hear another story from a...
BONUS: Great Actions Leave a Mark - Ian
Living Transplant - April 13, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutesIn September 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave a Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Canada. In this episode, Host Candice is joined by Ian ...
BONUS: Great Actions Leave a Mark - Ashley
Living Transplant - March 30, 2023 09:30 - 22 minutesIn September 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave a Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Canada. In this episode, Host Candice is joined by Ashl...
BONUS: Great Actions Leave a Mark - Craig
Living Transplant - March 16, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutesIn September, 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave A Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Canada. In the coming weeks, you'll hear stories from gr...
BONUS: Great Actions Leave a Mark - Jaime
Living Transplant - March 02, 2023 13:49 - 21 minutesBonus Episode: Great Actions Leave a Mark - Jaime In September, 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave A Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Cana...
BONUS EPISODE: Remember This Living Donation - Len
Living Transplant - February 16, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutesBonus Episode: Remember This Living Donation - Len During Living Donation Week 2021, we partnered with the podcast, Remember This, with host Amanda Cupido to highlight first person living organ donation stories submitted through an online app. In this episode, Len shares his story as a double ...
BONUS EPISODE: Remember This Living Donation - Glenna
Living Transplant - February 02, 2023 14:51 - 5 minutesBonus Episode: Remember This- Glenna During Living Donation Week 2021, we partnered with the podcast, Remember This, with host Amanda Cupido to highlight first person living organ donation stories submitted through an online app. In this episode, Glenna shares her journey as a non-directed, li...
BONUS EPISODE: Remember This Living Donation - Katie
Living Transplant - January 19, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutesDuring Living Donation Week 2021, we partnered with the podcast, Remember This, hosted by Amanda Cupido to highlight first person living organ donation stories submitted through an online app. In this episode, Katie shares her journey as a living liver donor to her husband Simon and its impact o...
BONUS EPISODE: Remember This Living Donation - Palma
Living Transplant - January 05, 2023 10:00 - 18 minutesBonus Episode: Remember This- Palma During Living Donation Week 2021, we partnered with the podcast, Remember This, with host Amanda Cupido to highlight first person living organ donation stories submitted through an online app. In this episode, Palma shares her journey as a living liver donor ...
Cancer Muggles & James Bond
Living Transplant - December 22, 2022 21:42 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by Natalie Theron, a liver transplant recipient who was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer the day before she gave birth to her daughter. After an incredible journey with cancer trials, chemotherapy, a HAIP pump and hospital stays, Natalie’s husband became her ...
Team Delfina
Living Transplant - December 09, 2022 00:24 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by Team Delfina: Betsy Amores, Peter Budziak and their two amazing children, liver transplant recipient Delfina, and big brother Matthew. Peter and Betsy talk about their family’s journey with Delfina, who was diagnosed with biliary atresia, and later needed a livi...
Ordinary People Can Do Extraordinary Things
Living Transplant - November 24, 2022 22:59 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by guest host, Ioanna Roumeliotis, a kidney donor to her brother who lives with Polycystic Kidney Disease. They discuss the process of donating, the ups and downs and how ordinary people can do extraordinary things, like saving a life by donating a kidney or liver....
A Whole Family Journey
Living Transplant - November 10, 2022 16:09 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by guest host, Maria Acero. They discuss Maria’s journey as a caregiver to her husband Luis, who was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis at the age of 15, and at the age of 47, was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma. In 2019, Luis underwent two liver transplan...
Behind the Scenes at the Banff CST Conference
Living Transplant - October 27, 2022 14:12 - 1 hourThis is a special episode of Behind the Scenes at the Banff CST Conference. The conference connects members of the Canadian Society of Transplantation with cutting edge science and leading clinical practices that can be used to advance the practice and science of transplantation in Canada. Host...
There isn’t a heart sitting on a shelf waiting.
Living Transplant - October 13, 2022 14:08 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by guest host, Michelle Rambarran. They discuss Michelle’s journey as a new mom, learning she had spontaneous coronary artery dissection and what it was like to have a heart transplant, fearing that she may not see her son’s first birthday. Michelle had twelve amaz...
The best example of showing what to do, is to do it yourself.
Living Transplant - September 29, 2022 13:56 - 1 hourHost Candice Coghlan is joined by guest host, Chris Smith. Chris discusses how he became involved as an organ donation advocate through meeting his partner after she donated a portion of her liver to her father. Candice and Chris are joined by Dr. Markus Selzner, the Surgical Director of the Ajm...
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