John Reynolds
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210 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 21 May
John Reynolds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Today with David McCullagh · Kidney'versary' - 10 years since a lifesaving transplant · 21 May 2026
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No, no.
It's flown in.
Yeah.
I was called into the Mater Hospital in 2003 to say that there's something wrong with your kidneys.
And then I was sent away to say, you'll be grand.
We won't see you until you're in your 60s or 70s when your kidneys will give you problems.
It was a reflux.
It's called reflux.
Whatever happens to your urine, it was refluxing back into the kidney.
But you weren't.
I wasn't.
And then in 2014, I hit the deck.
I was in college in All Hollows, studying theology and psychology.
And I hit the deck, and then I went into the hospital to be told by the doctors, it is your...
heart that you know that's giving you the trouble but you need to talk to your gp so i had to go to the gp to tell me that you're gonna need a kidney transplant in two years time or else oh my god yeah yeah yeah that's terribly traumatic news to get yeah yeah it was it was the the carpet was pulled
literally from under me and everything just went downhill from there.
Dialysis was an option.
But I mean, what happened for me was when I was told, I just went...
Blinkers went down.
I went into the depression, into a really low place.
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