And Now For Something Completely Different: WHELKS!
I don’t often get serious, but today is World Kidney Day. It is the day that Dr Scribner used a machine he and an engineer from the University Of Washington, Wayne Quinton, developed to dialyze a patient, Clyde Shields. The treatment lasted 70 hours, and the end result of that is my regular treatments of 4 hours a day. And the fact that I’m still alive years after my diagnosis.
One in nine people have some form of kidney disease and are completely unaware of it. Today I am asking you guys to have your doctor test your kidney function. Caught early, it is often manageable and in some cases reversible.
Trust me, while I am grateful to have dialysis, it is not as much fun as I make it sound to have kidney failure.
Information Places:
Dialysis From The Sharp End Of The Needle
Tags: For Serious, Sick Of It, Stuff I'm Going To Tell You Anyway, Things You'd Rather Not Know
March 9th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Are you sure? Because you make it sound like a laugh a second!
March 9th, 2010 at 6:11 am
stupid wordpress ate my first comment, so I’m not going to repeat myself here even though you have no idea how awesome my first comment was. just,,,,,know I commented.
Also: Yay for technological advances!
March 9th, 2010 at 6:32 am
I am going in this week for a battery of tests for a variety of things. Kidney function is not one of the tests. I’ll correct that.
Thank you.
March 9th, 2010 at 6:52 am
Thanks for sharing this! I’d never thought to get my kidney’s checked out. In fact, I didn’t know that I should!
xo
March 9th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
I have my kidneys checked every six months, thanks to the miracle known as Humira and the doll known as Dr. Yup-Yup. I’m heading for my 6 month check on Friday.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:09 am
I’ve noticed that people see their own illnesses everywhere they look and insist that people get tested for it. Personally, I’m not talking to you anymore until you can prove that you don’t have testicular cancer.