New year New Dialysis Trouble
Well let me tell you about my hernia problem first, I've been on peritoneal dialysis since April 2015, everything was going so well until I managed to get myself a hernia. I was getting stomach pains...
View ArticleTownes Brock Syndrome, My Rare Condition That Gave Me Kidney Failure
The doctors had me and my mum see the people who deal with Genetics to see if there was a link with all this kidney failure and deafness. We had some Blood tests done and they were sent to Germany, the...
View ArticleMy Mum Spent 43 Years Without Knowing She Had Kidney Failure
Imagine walking round with kidney failure without knowing for 43 years with no symptoms what so ever and only finding out when you want to donate to your child. It must of been heart breaking for my...
View ArticleGetting Tested to be a Living Kidney Donor for my Partner
After reading up more about living donation the benefits it would have for him, I told him I wanted to be a living donor for him I didn't want him waiting on a list for a call, and at the time he...
View ArticleSince I've Been Moved Over To Hemodialysis From Peritoneal Dialysis (update)
What they are going to do is cut my upper arm and cut the vein and attach it to my artery then hopefully when the blood from the artery starts to flow through the vein it will make the vein go wider...
View ArticleOfficial My Kidney Failure Journey App
It's official I have now made an app based on my website blog, it is to make it easier to interact with each other through the live chat function. I have been thinking of doing an app for a long time...
View ArticleKidney Failure Signs and Symptoms and How to Maintain Healthy Kidneys
There are around 64,000 people being treated for kidney failure in the United Kingdom and many more who don't know they have it. Without dialysis or a kidney transplant they sadly die. In the United...
View ArticleOpt Out Organ Donation
The National Transplant waiting list is a list for people who need a transplant who maybe don't have a living donor or for people who need a heart transplant for example is their only option as i'm...
View ArticleMy Fistula Operation for Hemodialysis and PD Tube Removal
I had the heart monitor stickers on my body and wires attached to it and blood pressure cuff, then they put the oxygen mask on me and told me they were putting me to sleep now. When I go for operations...
View ArticleHome Hemodialysis Training On Nxstage Machine
I was shocked when she said that because seven days isn't much training but she obviously felt that we were good enough and she also said on Sunday which is today as I write this that we can do it all...
View ArticleCare Partner's View on Helping With Home Hemodialysis
One worry I have is that I am planning to go away on holiday abroad with a family member , Michael still doesn't feel confident enough to do dialysis in another country I worry because there isn't...
View ArticleMy Kidney Transplant At Sixteen
Do you ever get that feeling that you never going to get the call for a kidney transplant, well that's how I felt at sixteen. I thought I would be waiting for ever so when I received the call on the...
View ArticleInjections and Drips On Home Hemodialysis Nxstage Machine
This is just a short blog post describing how I give myself my arenesp injection for hemoglobin. Hemodialysis has it's pro's an con's and one of the pro's is injections, many dialysis patients have...
View ArticleMy Prednisolone Story
Other side effects I had gotten by taking prednisolone is a moon face, my face was a round shape and my cheeks looked like they wanted to explode. I basically looked like a chipmunk. My hair started to...
View ArticleMy Ever Changing Appetite Due To Kidney Failure
I was also sick every couple of months or so, I would get the same symptoms I would get a headache then start throwing up it would only last for 24 to 48 hours and then I would feel better but during...
View ArticleMy Fistula Operation for Hemodialysis (Part Two)
When I woke up I wasn't in any pain but I couldn't move my arm because they put an arm blocker into my arm which made it go dead, I also had drain line in my arm to stop it from clotting, It was really...
View ArticleMy First Time Using My Fistula For Hemodialysis (Video)
The nurse then found where she was going to put the needle so I held my breath and she stuck the needle in, It didn't hurt but I felt a pinch type feeling. It looked worse than it was because when the...
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