{"id":581,"date":"2017-08-07T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=581"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:31:45","slug":"the-shock-of-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-shock-of-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The shock of the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stH4PclDrUI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>Thom Green is drummer for Alt-J \u2013 and has kidney failure and a transplant, and deafness, all caused by the inherited condition Alport Syndrome, which came on in his teens.<\/p>\n<p>In short videos he talks about the shock of dialysis, how different living with a transplant is, and about his (deceased) kidney donor. There&#8217;s a bit about accommodating to such a devastating sudden diagnosis so young, too. The video above is segment 3 in which he talks about how low he reached on dialysis. In segment 4 he talks about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V0Y72TrlSwg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transformation brought about by his kidney transplant<\/a>, and of his donor, who died of asthma. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IJcYeGHB18s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video 1<\/a> has music and he talks about diagnosis and deafness; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ej3aMQo2zF4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 he talks about deafness<\/a>. They were filmed backstage at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Every patient who has experienced dialysis and transplantation has an affecting story to tell.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edren.org\/pages\/edreninfo\/alport-syndrome.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alport Syndrome<\/a> (edren), named after Edinburgh graduate Dr Cecil Alport<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Altjband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alt-J<\/a> (YouTube); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altjband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alt-J<\/a> (own website)<\/li>\n<li>Edren textbook on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\/pages\/textbook\/haemodialysis.php\">Haemodialysis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\/pages\/textbook\/peritoneal-dialysis.php\">Peritoneal dialysis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrep.org\/pages\/textbook\/transplantation.php\">Transplantation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edren.org\/pages\/unit\/renal\/patients.php#Patients__experiences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More patient experiences<\/a> (edren)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary Thom Green is drummer for Alt-J \u2013 and has kidney failure and a transplant, and deafness, all caused by the inherited condition Alport Syndrome, which came on in his teens. In short videos he talks about the shock of dialysis, how different living with a transplant is, and about his (deceased) kidney donor. There&#8217;s <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-shock-of-the-machine\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,9],"tags":[41,4,16],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ear-nose-and-throat","category-renal-medicine","tag-disability","tag-patient-experience","tag-video"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":5,"sum_votes":19},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}