Hurricane Gratitude
Tonight I went for the first walk that I’ve been on in probably four months. The temperature was a wonderful 70 degrees and the air was surprisingly calm ...
Year: 2024
I Am Disabled
Until recently, I hadn’t really ever framed my kidney disease like this. Not that I’ve been in denial about it or anything, but it wasn’t unti...
Only In Dreams
One unusual thing that I’ve noticed over the last couple of months is that since I started dialysis, my dreams seem to be more vivid and defined than usua...
Where’d I Leave Off???
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now, but life has been a little crazy as of late. Go figure! So I’ve been doing dialysis for five m...
A Meal’s Worth of Calories on Dialysis
Something that is definitely going to take some getting used to is “losing” some calories out of my diet due to the sugar in the dialysis fluid that I use. It’s...
So How’s Dialysis Going So Far?
In a word – …ok… I’m writing to you live from my fifth day of training, so I’ve only got a couple more to go and then I’ll b...
Walking to Mordor, Revisited
Over a decade ago, I had stumbled across a fun, little video series about a group of guys who traveled to New Zealand to see the locations from the Lord of the ...