22/04 Orla Tinsley: I’m looking forward to making it into the 15% of people with cystic fibrosis over the age of 40
-Taking care of your own body is the ultimate act of love
- The Irish Times
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12/11 How awful that you must spew anti-immigrant hate on a Sunday, of all days, outside a church, of all places
-A man, oblivious to the world, and so at war with the living, screamed and heckled a couple and their daughter
- The Irish Times
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01/10 Orla Tinsley: Now that I am free of kidney dialysis, I want others to be free too
-The only value of having power is to empower other people in turn. Experience of illness and the health system yields simple insights into how care can be improved
- The Irish Times
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06/06 Orla Tinsley: In Dalkey I feel the same thing Matt Damon surely did before me: this is where I’m meant to be
-The sea air masks a weight that would otherwise be crushing: no kidney transplant or living donor has worked out for me yet
- The Irish Times
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30/04 Orla Tinsley: Competing to stay alive should not be our reality, but it is
-How can we move towards an idea of community rather than competition for care?
- The Irish Times
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16/04 Orla Tinsley: The safest dialysis experience I have had at this hospital . . . I just had to get Covid to have it
-In those transitory spaces in the hospital, where you think you can breathe a sigh of relief, don’t
- The Irish Times
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13/02 Orla Tinsley: 26 ways you can organise your hospital space to make it safe and soothing
-Don’t let healthcare surroundings determine how you feel. Make the space your own with a few home comforts and items of self-care
- The Irish Times
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29/11 Orla Tinsley: ‘The chart, to my horror, says I am on 10mg. But I’m on 7.5mg. And the voice had given me 20mg’
-There must be accountability, and removal and retraining of staff who create danger for patients in their care
- The Irish Times
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17/10 Orla Tinsley: I’d like to be telling you about my dream life, but here’s a nightmare instead
-Medical gaslighting after a serious injury makes recovery a long, tortuous road
- The Irish Times
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12/09 Here are some memories of a very good boy – which are words cats deserve as much as dogs
-Orla Tinsley: I was a penniless student, but there was one kitten, King George, who melted my heart
- The Irish Times
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22/08 Sometimes, when you need a witness – or Ed Sheeran – social media can be a source for good
-Orla Tinsley: Social media morphs into a space to write intentionally and lyrically when picking up a pen is not an option
- The Irish Times
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28/06 Orla Tinsley: Ireland’s long road toward respecting donors and making it easier to receive an transplant
-The Human Tissue Bill has taken 15 years to reach committee stage but it promises to be a milestone for donors and those in need of organs
- The Irish Times
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