Category Archives: renal failure
Why do patients who make urine have to be on dialysis?
When I asked another patient early in my dialysis experience, he told me most people stop urinating after about three years. Continue reading
Transplant center prepares patients
The doctors determined I had kidney failure, and I was about to face dialysis indefinitely. Continue reading
Kindness provides healing
Survival tip: Sometimes expressing kindness and care for others is not about you. Whether you hear thank you does not minimize the impact. You might be forgotten, but the act
Hemodialysis patient offers tips (Part 1)
SURVIVAL TIP: Although we can’t always be happy with our health and the life we have, we must accept that we cannot change some things. I just have to make the best of it. And then when you can improve … Continue reading
Dialysis is never a sure thing
SURVIVAL TIP: September 13–19 is designated by the Southeastern Kidney Council as Nephrology Nurses Week. Without the nurses to provide care, information and a listening ear, dialysis would be much worse. MARCH 2007 I used the Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) machine … Continue reading
Every day offers more understanding
SURVIVAL TIP: Understand that your health can interfere with your lifestyle and your self-image. Your clothes and your shape do not define you. Your character and personality leave a permanent impression. Weight, wrinkles and thinning hair usually do not. Early … Continue reading
Out patient surgery shouldn’t last this long!
SURVIVAL TIP: About 2,000 people in North Carolina are on waiting lists for a kidney. In South Carolina, nearly 800 wait for a kidney (as of 08/21/15)1. Nationwide, 101,662 individuals await kidney transplants (as of 4/22/15)2. The day after Christmas … Continue reading
