Still Keeping It Renal

13/08/2025

12 weeks post transplant update.

Can you believe it's been 12 weeks since I received my shiny kidney?

Back to work ✅
Back to training ✅
New car ✅
Wedding booked ✅
Feeling incredible ✅
Looking forward to the future ✅

Bloods are still unreal.. and in the words of half the idiots on love island.... I'm flying!

Big things on the horizon.

Just keep swimming (or just keep forgetting to update still keeping it renal because you are busy living your life)

10/08/2025

Tomorrow i will tick off another milestone on my transplant journey.

My final clinic in Oxford (transplant specialist) before being transferred back to Gloucester (my local unit).

This means that I am now stable enough not to be seen by the specialists and I am out of the Danger zone post op. Kidney Transplants are not a cure. I still have Chronic Kidney Disease and I will most likely (hopefully in another 15/20 years or more) end up back in Oxford renal clinic).

But for now. No more leaving the house at 5.30am to drive a 104 mile round trip for a blood test! 💪

I am currently trying to do something active everyday to keep my body fitness journey ticking along! So here is a photo of me pretending I know what I am doing at the driving range.

Just keep swimming (or being grateful everyday!)

02/08/2025

This is a little bit cool 🙏💜

31/07/2025

Am I doing tiktok right yet?

Just keep swimming (or living your best life)

31/07/2025

30/07/2025

FAQ- British Transplant games!

It's games week! Tomorrow the British transplant games begin! From Thursday - Sunday in Oxford transplant athletes from all over the country will be competing to become the best in their sport all while promoting organ donation and the benefits to transplantation. If you are in and around Oxford this weekend come give us a watch!

Information of what is happening and where can be found on the following page!

Transplant Active - Home of the British Transplant Games

Just keep swimming (or competing in honor of your donor to promote organ donation)

28/07/2025

Good morning!

Sorry I haven't posted much. Life has been incredibly busy now that I have energy to do things!

💜 Bloods are still pretty stable and I'm incredibly happy with the results I have been getting!

💜 Bought a brand new car! Like brand brand new. A whole 40 miles on the clock when I drove it out the garage!

💜 Back at work, preseason is usually pretty busy for us so I've been face first in spreadsheets for the past little while!

💜 But my biggest news is that I've been shortlisted for a HUGE award at the British Transplant Games! They take place in Oxford this week!! It's a massive honour just to be in the same list as some of the others who have joined me on the shortlist!

I don't feel I should be on that list as all I'm doing is telling you lot what's going on in life and how to just keep swimming.

So um... Just keep swimming (or...smashing every goal that you can to prove that organ donation works)

17/07/2025

8 weeks post transplant and I've made it back to the gym!

VERY GENTLE before anybody has a go.
Just a walk on the treadmill and a wee go on the bike.

I feel amazing. I really do! I am so happy with my blood results, working and back exercising (Gently!)

Organ donation works people! ♥️♥️

Just keep swimming (or proving the haters wrong everyday, hehe 🤫🖕)

07/07/2025

Well I did it. Not quickly but who cares. I managed to walk twice round the lake (plus a wee lap of the car park to get to 2.5km)

For those who know me I have really struggled with my mobility for a long time. The thought of walking over 1k without my trusty stick, or even being in the wheelchair at times, was totally unimaginable. Dialysis destroyed my fitness levels and I'm so happy to be (slowly) building it back up.

This is the first time I've managed to be "active" for more than 30 minutes without stopping (apart from photo breaks) in almost 3 years.

My leg is really unhappy with me now but I am absolutely buzzing. 🎉☺️

Just keep swimming (or taking it one step at a time, I do recommend being slightly quicker away from the aggressive swans at Newent lake)

06/07/2025

Hi all,
This isn't something I normally do. My incredibly mad and brave friend who donated me her kidney in may is running the Great North Run in September (it's a half marathon) in aid of Kidney Research. I would be really grateful if you would help her reach her fundraising goal.

I am so grateful to her for giving me my life back so if you could share and donate if you can we would really appreciate it.

Thank you.
💜

https://ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/hannah-lloyd-hartley?utm_source=share&utm_medium=whatsapp