RCMP officer anxiously available life-altering kidney transplant

Shane Burridge’s heart jumps a tiny bit any time his phone rings.

The RCMP physical has been on a watchful list for a new kidney given February.

“You’ve got to have your bag packed, your cellphone on, since a call could come, and you’ve got to make a beeline to Halifax as discerning as possible,” Burridge said.

He hopes a call that would change his life will come soon.

“They won’t tell we where we are on a list, only that you’re on a list, and that people with my length of time are nearby a top,” Burridge said.

Policing was his ‘lifelong dream’

Burridge, who grew adult in Elliston, pronounced he knew he wanted to be a military officer when he was in Grade 9.

“I knew during that age that that was a career for me … we done good strides during life to achieve that goal,” he said.

“So it was a good fulfilment for me to have reached that idea in Jun of 2000.”

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Burridge takes a lot of honour in being a Mountie, calling it a career rather than a job. It also runs in a family, with his brother, cousin and brother-in-law also on a force.

He’s had postings in Placentia, Nain (which he calls his favourite), and St. John’s. He’s done plainclothes confidence and surveillance, yet has also had fun VIP assignments, like guarding a primary minister, or doing confidence in a range for former U.S. boss Bill Clinton.

But in 2009, about 3 years into his use in a city, his health took a turn. He was diagnosed with lupus nephritis, that attacks a kidneys.

“After lupus, we take a handful of drugs and we keep going and we keep going, and any 4 to 6 weeks, we keep in hit with your nephrologist. And it’s consistent bloodwork and monitoring,” he said.

In Dec 2012, renal disaster set in.

“And a tiny bit some-more rejection on my part, perplexing to keep your kidneys for as prolonged as possible,” he said.

“February 2013 was when we gave adult a spook and finally went on dialysis.”

Dialysis ‘takes over your life’

Burridge has been undergoing dialysis now for 4 years and 9 months.

For three-and-a-half years, he was doing dialysis treatments during home — peritoneal dialysis — four times a day, any 6 hours. 

“But that began to fail, so we wasn’t removing a clearances we needed, bloodwork-wise. And we started to feel not as good as we should,” he said.

For hemodialysis, this appurtenance during a Waterford Hospital in St. John’s takes a patient’s blood, cleans it, and earnings it to their body. (Submitted by Shane Burridge)

So Burridge started going to a Waterford Hospital for hemodialysis, a procession where a appurtenance takes your blood, cleans it, and afterwards puts it behind into your body.

He gets a diagnosis 3 times a week, 4 hours any time.

“Dialysis days are writeoffs, since we get adult during 5:30 in a morning, we go to a hospital, we come back, we get something to eat, we have a snooze for substantially 3 hours, we arise up, and it’s dim — especially this time of year. And a whole day is shot,” he said.

Santa pays a revisit to a Waterford Hospital’s dialysis unit, where 30 patients bear diagnosis during once. (Submitted by Shane Burridge)

Burridge says it’s hard, yet he has no other choice.

“It’s something that we never suspicion I’d unequivocally be concerned in or have to be accustomed to,” he said. 

“You learn flattering fast that dialysis positively takes over your life. And what we could do before as a regular, clever chairman — you unequivocally have to take it easy.”

Stepping back

In Sep 2016, Burridge done a diffcult preference to step behind from a pursuit he loves.

Shane Burridge has many RCMP ornaments on his Christmas tree. (Sherry Vivian/CBC)

He was still doing at-home dialysis during a time — which enclosed doing treatments in his office.

“I satisfied that even yet that was accommodating, that it was still holding a toll, that a dialysis was failing, we wasn’t feeling as good as we should,” he said. 

“And we try to put on a clever show, yet it only wasn’t happening.”

Burridge says he would be vehement to get that phone call to bound on a craft to Halifax, since a transplant would meant removing his leisure back.

Shane Burridge says his reliable messenger Beni isn’t your stereotypical military dog, yet he jokes that he’s still a ‘killer.’ (Sherry Vivian/CBC)

“[It would mean] no some-more dialysis … and [I could] go on with my life, and go on with my wife. And live, transport … only a tiny things,” he said.

Burridge is also looking brazen to removing behind to work.

“I’m not prepared to give it up,” he said. 

“I’ve got 17 and a half years in, and like we said, this [is a] lifelong dream.”

Raising recognition about organ donation

Burridge says he wants to get his story out to help lift recognition about organ donation, and a problems people face.

According to a new inhabitant news from a Canadian Institute for Health Information, in 2016, there were 1,731 kidney transplants and 3,421 people on a watchful list.

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More than 37,000 Canadians (outside of Quebec) were vital with end-stage kidney disease, with roughly 60 per cent receiving some form of dialysis.

“Less than 10 per cent of a people on dialysis indeed make a transplant list. And that’s unequivocally sad,” he said. 

“It’s tough to make a list. Believe it or not, we have to be a healthy ill chairman to get on a list.”

‘I’ve always been a sincerely certain person, and I’m not going to let anything like dialysis get me down. I’m going to keep pulling and pushing. And a stronger we get, a some-more we fight.’
– Shane Burridge

Burridge knows some-more than many how critical organ concession can be.

“It truly is a present of life, and there are a lot of people in this range that are available a kidney transplant, and we unequivocally don’t have anything unless we have your health,” he said.

“You could have all a income in a world, yet it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter. If we don’t have your health, we don’t have anything. And I’ve famous that for a really prolonged time.”

Despite all a treatments and struggles, Burridge keeps smiling.

“The highway is long, yet what I’m told is never give adult hope,” he said. 

“I’ve always been a sincerely certain person, and I’m not going to let anything like dialysis get me down. I’m going to keep pulling and pushing. And a stronger we get, a some-more we fight. So here we am.”

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