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Transplant News and Events
Hello everyone!
Many events are held each year and many news stories are published that may interest the transplant community. We thought it might be nice to let people know of some of these events and stories, even if they may not apply to everyone. In this discussion, feel free to post events and news stories that might be of interest to transplant patients, caregivers, or donors.
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What events are you looking forward to?
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Isn't it an online meeting?
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1 ReactionI hope that someone who attends will will share the experience with all of us who live too far away.
Anybody out there planning to attend?
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2 ReactionsMayo Minnesota Kidney Transplant Patients - we have great news for you! We have begun a new kidney transplant support group online! This group is for Mayo Rochester pre-transplant and post-transplant kidney patients. If you are interested in listening in or visiting with others with kidney transplant questions or comments, talk to your Mayo social worker for the links and more information. Our first meeting will be March 27 at 3pm CST.
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2 ReactionsThere is an online zoom meeting Wednesday evening with a guest speaker of the Director of Health, Wellness and Diabetes at UC Irvine.
The group meets weekly but only occassionally has guest speakers. It focuses primarily on liver and kidney patients and their caregivers. It meets weekly at 6pm PST (9pm EST)
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81841008182?pwd=w5zNpZwlSWxIJwX7phSboP0XSfI8mC.1
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1 ReactionGood morning Bob. It was nice to see you on the call yesterday. I also had some trouble connecting yesterday, but I think it was on my end. Thanks for sharing your story and offering hope to the pre-transplant patients on the call. I try to join every week. I have found this forum to be tremendously helpful and to know from speaking with others, that any issues I may have are not unique to me.
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1 ReactionYes, I think the problem is that if you have security extensions installed on your browser you can't log into the meeting. In Chrome I have Ghostery, Location Guard, Privacy Badger and UBlock installed to prevent web tracking. When I used Firefox without privacy extensions to access the zoom meeting link I was able login.
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Were you able to join the zoom meeting? I was not able to get on ot today. I think the problem was at my end, and thing that I have it solved. I hope to be available next week. 🤞
Okay, using Chrome it does not work. I used Firefox and it worked. I have cookies blocked in Chrome as well as uBlock for security.
The meeting still does not work using either the link or launching zoom manually and entering the meeting ID and password.
Use the link that @gperry posted. It worked for me. I have links for the Mayo Phoenix kidney and liver support groups. If you want those DM me and I will send them to you.