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So it’s more than six months since I received my wonderful new kidney.
….and I haven’t been back to the dialysis centre to clean out my locker, much less visit the people I spent so much time with there.
What’s up with that?
My wife keeps nagging me to go back and visit the people I dialysed with. […]

Patients put at risk by dialysis centers closing before treatment is completed

Just 48 hours……….
with no fluid restriction - mmmm that beer tasted good, I think I’ll have another
Just 48 hours……….
With no fear of dying from potassium overdose. I think I’ll have a banana split for dessert
Just 48 hours………..
Without worrying about phosphate - that block of cheese looks good!
Just 48 hours……….
Without those damned needles.
Just 48 hours……….
Not thinking […]

Well, we’re getting closer to another Christmas on dialysis (my fifth in a row).
After my Freaky High Potassium last Christmas, I’ve been giving some thought to boycotting Christmas altogether this year.
After having four “get-togethers” between dialysis sessions last year, it comes as no great surprise that I had a potassium high enough to hospitalise me. […]

I had a phone call from my renal specialist the other day, letting me know that he had turned down a transplant on my behalf.
Apparently the donor was a 74 year old, and the kidney didn’t work in the recipient. So although I was glad to have missed out on a kidney that didn’t work […]

Dialysis is as boring as bat-shit - right?
We spend far too much time at the dialysis center as it is, so it might be a bit of fun to try to think of some things to do which might brighten it up a bit.
(You might want to make sure you get along pretty well with […]