{"id":190,"date":"2014-07-16T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nephceurope.net\/nc\/?p=190"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:54:06","slug":"wendy-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wendy-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Wendy Cook. I am a mother of two children amongst which is David who is suffering from NS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nephceurope.net\/nc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WendyCookFamily1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/nephceurope.net\/nc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WendyCookFamily1.jpg\" alt=\"WendyCookFamily[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>I am a trustee and chair of the &#8216;Nephrotic Syndrome Trust&#8217; (Nest) based in the United Kingdom (<a style=\"color: #4f8c31;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nstrust.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nstrust.co.uk<\/a>). Nest was launched in 2005, the charity aims to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raise awareness of Nephrotic Syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Offer a website resource, and support to sufferers and their families who are affected by Nephrotic Syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Raise money to fund pioneering research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am also involved in a new global initiative &#8216;Nephcure International&#8217; founded in 2008 to promote international co-operation for NS research.<\/p>\n<p>I am married to Tim who is a priest in the Church of England, and have two children: Victoria nineteen who is at college, and David fourteen who has suffered from NS-FSGS since he was five. David has had both kidneys removed, been on dialysis, had a transplant and sadly seen FSGS reoccur.<\/p>\n<p>Nephrotic Syndrome is seriously cruel and debilitating kidney condition which my son and many other children and adults are battling against daily. This is why I feel very much motivated to give my time voluntarily to fight for new therapies and ultimately a cure one day.<\/p>\n<p>I have joined the foundation team to give my support and explore ways in which we can collaborate by sharing information and lobbying much needed funds for our researchers. I&#8217;m looking forward to being involved in forthcoming European initiatives and projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Wendy Cook. I am a mother of two children amongst which is David who is suffering from NS. I am a trustee and chair of the &#8216;Nephrotic Syndrome Trust&#8217; (Nest) based in the United Kingdom (www.nstrust.co.uk). Nest was launched in 2005, the charity aims to: Raise awareness of Nephrotic Syndrome Offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-are-we"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nephceurope.eu\/nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}