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Skarbrowe

(1,083 posts)
8. I've been on dialysis for about a year now.
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 11:08 PM
Jun 2016

When they say you leave that place "tired",.. wow, what an understatement. Ha! Plus it ate up most of my brain cells. It's really difficult trying to explain to someone how draining dialysis can be. I thought I would be fine because I'm not afraid of needles and I had already become too ill to do much of anything but read and watch TV anyway. At one time I posted long political or TV comments (on other sites..have never been very prolific on the DU.) and I loved it. Hard to string sentences together now. Forget grammar. I even got confused reading that article. I think I saw it on Google today or yesterday.

I know they will eventually come up with something to at least get a big chunk of the people on hemodialysis off of that three day a week tether.

Well, today was a "recupe" day for me. Back on the machine tomorrow. I usually spend the four hours watching TV on my cell phone.


The machine is life and life is good.

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