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62Water And Fluid.
Or should I say body fluid? Water is my favorite drink and I find this part of being on hemodialysis extremely tough; a patient without kidneys has to count every drop of fluid that passes their lips.
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62A.V. Fistula Vascular Access.
On my first year of dialysis treatment at my A.V. fistula was perforated around 6 times. At this clinic a patient gets a different nurse for every treatment enabling the nurse’s to gain experience on injecting into the vein of a dialysis patient. Some patients have large visible veins and other patients have small invisible veins.
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96Hemodialysis vs Peritoneal Dialysis
Once chronic kidney failure has been ascertained, a form of dialysis will be needed to keep you alive. As scary as this sounds, there is no reason why you cannot live a relatively normal life. My own hemodialysis story is in a sense a testament to...
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75Poem: My Mother Left Without Saying Goodbye
My mother died from complications brought about by diabetes. I didn't get to see her before she passed on and this poem shares my pain and how I'll always miss her.
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82Kidney disease and Dialysis - the psychosocial aspects of renal failure
Kidney disease or renal failure Take a look into the world of a individual with kidney disease (renal failure) and dialysis, the life between the machines. It was three days before Christmas, two years ago, that I became acquainted with this...
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69TOP 10 INVENTIONS OF THE 1940s
This is a list of the best inventions of the 1940s. Everything from the slinky to the frisbee is here along with pictures, youtube videos and commentary. There are three youtube videos telling about the fantastic items that came to be in this era.
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71Taking Care of our Kidneys
The DIALYSIS MACHINE and its procedure (Photo courtesy of http://www.statcrux.co.uk/) (Photo courtesy of http://renux.dmed.ed.ac.uk/) (Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/) Drink 8 to 10 glasses of...
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85Life on Dialysis: How it works, How I cope
In March of 2000 I was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disorder called GoodPasture's Syndrome and renal failure, which was secondary to the disease. "Goodpasture Syndrome is a rare disease that can affect the lungs and kidneys. Also called...
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78Coping with dialysis: Secrets revealed!
"...knowledge is empowering." Imagine going into a new place, having been told that you will be undertaking some treatment for several hours, in a place where your knowledge, experience of what goes on is very...
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74Sunday In The Life Of A Dialysis Patient.
I feel good and will fight to keep these beautiful Sundays when my Daughter looks at me this way I feel capable of anything. I am a little nervous of what will happen to me during my walk through Hell again next week but then again I am alway's at my best when I am nervous.
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