Coming out of lockdown safely

[Hilly038]

Hello everyone,

I haven’t been on after I had my transplant in 2018. Since then, I have been campaigning for organ donation and raising awareness about organ donation too.

I started an online campaign event platform inviting different renal health professionals to come speak and provide advice and education to people from our community.

So I have one next weekend, 8th May, advising people how to cope once they start going back to work. I’ll like to invite all of you. Here’s the link: bit.ly/comingoutoflockdown4

[Falkenhayn]

We patients with a functioning transplant are all immunosuppressed, so when we are vaccinated, the vaccine only has a weak effect in stimulating our attenuated immunity against the virus. Since this leaves us vulnerable to infection, our only hope for returning to normal life is if and when the virus becomes so rare in the rest of society that society achieves 'herd immunity,' and we can be relatively shielded against attack. But with new variants of the virus always popping up, and with a few infected people always around, do all transplanted patients have to remain masked or in lockdown forever?

[Hilly038 in reply to Falkenhayn]

Hello Falkenhayn, this is a question you might want to ask the consultant. This would be an opportunity to ask those questions you have. I am looking forward to it myself.