Courtney and Brittany sit down with the hilarious Trevor Hanagan to discuss his journey to becoming a non-directed living kidney donor and his 16-year career in UHN security. With humour and vulnerability, Trevor discusses working security in hemodialysis, convincing his mother and partner that donating was a good idea, and the ‘high’ of the non-directed donor process. Also in this episode: the pros and cons of growing up in a family of nurses, bonding during the nightshift, kidney paired donation, and something every man should know when recovering from a kidney transplant.
Know Your Heroes: Trevor Hanagan
https://tgwhf.ca/stories/know-your-heroes-trevor-hanagan/
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The national Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) program is an interprovincial program that is operated collaboratively between Canadian Blood Services and Canada’s living kidney donation and kidney transplant programs. (More on the Canadian Blood Services Website)
https://www.blood.ca/en/about-us/media/kidney-paired-donation/backgrounder-kidney-paired-donation-program
Scrotal swelling after laparoscopic donor nephrectomyhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/230789088_Laparoscopic_donor_nephrectomy_An_increasingly_common_cause_for_testicular_pain_and_swelling
ED stands for emergency department
Watch Trevor’s partner, Francesco discuss his experience as caregiver in a panel discussion from Living Donation Week 2020. In Conversation with Caregivers https://youtu.be/QAi1SZTM444
