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Cim’s Story | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. It seemed unreal. I saw Jonas, my not-so-little brother being wheeled into the operation theatre in St George’s hospital in London for major surgery. Can he live a normal life afterwards? Will he even survive? Cim Bartlett. Woking, England. October 2007. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Follow &ldqu...
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March | 2013 | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. Souther than South West: five years on. Posted on March 8, 2013. Five years ago today. Blimey! Stepping on the train at Woking station, we were never the same again. South West Trains has that effect on a lot of people, but for most, it is some other reason than their destination is Antarctica. March 2008: an Antarctic “odessey” begins with South West Trains. A good idea), perhaps it’s time to f...
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Jerry’s Story | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. Finding out that I couldn’t be a donor for Cim was a setback until Jonas offered, but I must admit, it was something of a relief at the time. What I could do though was make their journey as comfortable as possible. It’s not over even when it’s over; there are the checkups, which are every day at first, and as things go well, they go to twice a week and once a week and so on. We set mi...Progress ofte...
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Jonas’ Story | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. I had been aware of my sister Cim’s kidney problems and that things had been getting steadily worse over the years. I knew that in the end she would have to have a kidney transplant to survive in the long term. She asked me if I could consider donating a kidney to her, and I said yes. People probably respond in different ways to that question, but for me it was, Of course! Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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August | 2010 | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. Cardiac death organs now “good” for transplants. Posted on August 20, 2010. Awoken with a start at 6.55 AM by the phone. At that time of day it’s usually bad news, or somebody in Sweden not thinking. Today, it was BBC Surrey Radio. Phone voice: “Cim, can you do an interview in 20 minutes with Nick Wallis on his breakfast show? Cim: “Of course”. Cim: “Er…”. As Cim gets to grip with the interview, she a...
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Our Stories | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. Cim Bartlett is from Östersund in northern Sweden – the south of the north, really. She works with marketing and training. Cim has been sister to Jonas Skyttmo for 43 years, and has been married to Jerry Bartlett for 17. Jerry and Cim live in Woking, in sout-east England. Jonas runs a forestry business from Östersund. Jerry is a writer and business partner in IT. These pages tell our stories….
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Contribute! | Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. Transplants in Mind Antarctic Odyssey. You can help us in a number of ways: raising money for Transplants in Mind, registering on the NHS Organ Donor Register, publicising live donor transplants. You can also contribute to our expenses and gear for the trip. If you’d like to sponsor us online through our Just Giving website. We will send you a postcard. Our patron will receive prominence on our websit...
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A new lease of life. Antarctic Odyssey for The Transplant Trust. 124; Comments RSS. A new lease of life. This page is for all the people who have supported us so kindly by donating to Transplants in Mind, pledging their support and by sponsoring us with equipment or services. First Dance Ltd provides professional – and more importantly – fun dance lessons for all couples planning their first dance. Axis will be providing a network camera to allow us to stream pictures from Antarctica.
