A New Catheter for Christmas…
So not to be a downer, but the last few months of dialysis haven’t been going great. We have a measure called Kt/V that is used to determine how effective...
Tag: kidney disease
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...
Kidneys & Me
I felt like writing because I haven’t done much in a while, and while admittedly I haven’t written much about this topic in particular because it...