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July 2, 2026 11 mins

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod... We talk to a cool listener with an even cooler job!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Zadium Podcast Network.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's Fleashborne and Hailey's a Little Bit of Pod. Welcome
to a Little Bit of Pod and the live show
and the podcast will be back on the twentieth of July.
We've also got our ask us anythings are coming up
and then us and us in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
But right little tree, A little tree instead today because
we love to get to know our listeners as they
get to know us, And we had an email from
a listener who is actually zooming us right now from
the UK, Hannah Pharaoh. Hello, good morning. So you're a
key we longtime listener, first time summer from the UK.

(00:41):
Love lovely now Hannah, So you live in the UK,
but you sent us an email because we've talked about
this a little bit before organ donation and you are
actually a specialist nurse for organ donations.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am indeed yes.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And so you thought why not reach out and we
can get to know some of our listeners who had
the most interesting jobs like taking organs from one person
and giving them to someone else.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, basically, I mean the reason it kind of thought
to message you guys is because it's organ donation. We're
coming up in the UK shortly, and I thought, what
a way to kind of reach out to the international
podcast family and expats living in the UK or around
the world and just have a chat about organ donation.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And then I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
You guys have spoken about it and you've been involved
in blood.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Donation recently, so yeah, just what a chance to kind
of set up on back tobout saving lives.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Do you look at some people like Hailey, for example,
and think it might be a bit pickled?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Absolutely not, no, Christine, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
But I tell you what, because I am thinking of
getting a tattoo on my left side because I would
have got one kidney. So if you went to you know,
harvest me and Bali or some dodgy place that have
found myself in, you'd kill me.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I wouldn't recommend you for a live donation, certainly not.
But I only deal with deceased donations. So not that
I'm okay even find yourself in that position, you know,
But unfortunately people do find themselves in their circumstances and
that's where I kind of come into play.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
And we can.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Lock my Now I've got my driver's license, donor, but
at the time I thought it meant I get a
donor commb every time.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Got my a T car. Does it?

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Where does it say it? I'm definitely their donors.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
We're a show of donors.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
You have to be. We do have to because we've
got predominantly New Zealand listeners. There is a little bit
of a tapoo element around it because I'm mildy and
I'll be buried on them and I so we're just
gonna chuck the lid on. You take it all, genuinely
take it all. But it is a bit tougher for
some cultures right to take organs.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Absolutely, and that's what we find, especially in London, because
it's so multicultural.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
We have people from all walks of.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Life and you know, people from different faith background cultures,
and they've got all different interpretations and kind of meaning
behind organ donation.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's a really interesting thing to unpeck most cultures. I'll
go for it.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
What's the squibbliest organ to hold? Like what you know,
I'll get it quickly like slip preck.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean, hopefully they don't go on the floor, but.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
If it did, if it did, prends it off like
five second rules.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
It doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
You know that they are. I'd like to think experts,
kind of the surgeons who do the retrieval. So don't worry,
we don't drop organs. I can assure you that. I'd
say that the pancreas probably the most surprising looking one.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
The pancreas so well in terms of transplant.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
That typically goes with the kidney, but it can go
on its own, and that helps to cure people from
a lifetime of diabetes.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, or people who are on dialysis.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
And if they need a kidney, it can be quite
often that they might need the kidney in the pantcreast
to get it.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Kind of looks like a how would you describe that?
Like a yucky.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Like a little chicken.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I don't think organs are supposed to look good, like
a deformed sausage. Maybe they do.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Look good though, like some organs are beautiful, and yeah,
it's so amazing seeing them like being implanted and someone.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Else like that.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Did you like that Will Smith movie Seven Pounds.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I've never seen it, and I think I'd get so
angry if I did see it, because I don't think
it's real life.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's unrealistic. So Will Smith's character was texting and driving,
causes of car accident. Seven people die, and he's like, well,
I'm a piece of shit. I'm going to donate my organs.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
But I think does he choose who the organs goes to?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, I think he kind of does.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I think he kind of does.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I said, they're element doesn't quite work out that way,
but you know, he's right. You absolutely can say at
least seven lines worth one organ donation. Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
That part's definitely accurately.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I had a friend of mine years ago. Unfortunately she
has passed away now, but she had, you know, born
with a very rare heart condition, was always told she
was going to have a short life. She had a
full heart transplant. A guy maybe I was in his
like four. I think he might have been forty five
years old. She's got a full heart transplant and went
on to live. God, it would have been like maybe

(05:31):
eight more years of an incredible life. Like she exercised.
She had this amazing time and even though it kind
of fell short, and I remember that was my first
experience of seeing the power of it. And then she
formed a beautiful relationship as well with his family, which
was quite beautiful.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh that's amazing. Yeah, it's so. I think that's the
amazing thing about my job as well.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Like, you know, we see a lot of death, and
you know, the really tragic side of it, but then
you see the flip side and there's lives that are
literally saved through other people's generosity, and it's just it's
so touching. It genuinely, I feel like I see humanity
as best. So it's lovely to see that side of it.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Do you are you of the beliefs that that I mean,
this may be bit a bit spiritual, but that like
when someone donates their organ, that it has a little
piece of them in there like the donor.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
It's interesting, I think, I don't know what I think myself,
but I see families who believe that, and they genuinely
see sometimes their loved one living on through someone else.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
But even if they don't see their loved one necessarily.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
They can see the legacy that their loved one has
kind of passed on. And it's almost the way that
a lot of our families describe it. It almost brings
meaning to their loved one's death because these deaths are
so tragic and happening quite often like unforeseen circumstances, but
they can look back and almost see that something good
came out of something so bad and so tragic.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
So just the fact that they can see their life
living on through someone else, it quite often gives people
hope and something positive to look back on.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
So I think their elements really lovely.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
If I chopped off a finger and I put it
in a chili bin on ice, how long have I
got until it could be put back on?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Probably a while.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
I was going to say, I don't know about fingers specifically,
we don't, I say, we don't do transplants like that
in the UK.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Actually they do up north to hand an upper limb.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yes, I'm not sort the time frame, but some organs
you can leave them all nice for a few hours
at least kind of a day before they need to
be unplanted enough time.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Usually it's less time, enough time.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
To eat your meal and then go, yeah, get changed. Yeah,
what do you do you like? Is every day different
for you? Like you must go to work and be like,
what's going to going to happen today?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Every day is different.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Like I swear there has never been two days the
same in this job, which is quite nice.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You know, it's refreshing, keeps you on your toes.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
What every day is just different, It's it's good and
bad for different reasons.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
But there's always, like I said, there's always people too
be inspired by.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
I'm constantly overwhelmed and flawed by the generosity people have
towards complete strangers on what is always the.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Worst day of their life. Yeah, I think that part
like that never ceases to blow me away. Yeah, so
I love that aspect of it. But there's just there's
so much education as well, the way that donation.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
And transplant is constantly evolving and changing, and I know
the New Zealand landscape is really embracing the change as well.
There's just so much to learn and it's really nice
to see kind of how that is continuing to impact
and transform lives. So yeah, I think no two days
are the same, but they've all got different elements that.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, it's just lovely.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
What bits of ours would be the best to get
I would be eyeballs because I've got perfect vision. These
guys have deteriorate.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, you're yeah, but you're nearly forty, so your vision
will also go back.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Excuse you, I'm thirty six, So let's just typ on
the nearly forty thing for a couple more years.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I can assure you you are all in perfect condition.
You would be absolutely wonderful. Donuts, my lungs, even if
you wear glasses, even if you've kind of head changes
to your vision or anything, absolutely fine.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
In fact, one I donation can restore the site for
up to eight people. So how do I take you
to me?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I'd take your started out.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh, different parts, like yeah, stripping a whole car, Okay,
it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
H Well, I mean obviously on the show, we're very
we're pro it. Even with you know, a slant culture question,
we're pro die.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
And even though you've started smoking again recently.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
No I don't tell you, no, I've just been it's
just been a rough it's been a rough year. I'm
knocking her on the head after Europe because you're up
so elegant to smoking.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
But after that, we do love hearing from our podcast
listens with interesting jobs.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, this is great free.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
To DMUs because you know, most key we just go
to London and get passed, don't they and work in
a bar and look at you just absolutely helping people
and changing lives.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I mean, I do what I can, but wholeheartedly. I
know it sounds cliche, but it's the donors and their families.
They are the ones who do, you know, outstanding things.
So all credit to them.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
You just said I do. I thought you could say, no,
I do, Go and get on the piss as well.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
She's get on the of course, we need to debrief somehow,
and you know we do live sometimes you do.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Just have to go to the pub. Afterword.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
I can't like getting a lung, chucking a lung and
another human off they go to live their life and
be like I need a pint celebrate. Hey, thank you
so much. Thank you for your message, Hannah, and and
for everything that you do and for chatting to us.
And yeah, we love learning about our listeners in the interesting.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Jobs and wherever you are. But be a donor, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Be a donor, be a donut absolutely.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
I think the main thing I'd say, just have the conversation.
You know, it's amazing that you've all got it on
your ideas. You driver's license, that's a great prompt, but
you know that's not a legally binding decision. So the
most important thing you can do is have the conversation.
I cannot overstate that words genuinely can change lives. If

(11:13):
you go home and have the conversation today with your
family and founder and.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Say hey, I want to be a donor.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
That is a conversation that one day could save multiple
people's lives.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
So talk about it.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
I love that so much. Hey, cheers, Hannah, and go
have a pint wherever you are. You deserve it.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I'll be going to bed, but
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