Is starting dialysis easy?

[Joe]

beachbum, got to hate when you pull the clamps too soon. But we've all done it, I'm sure. It's one of those "I'll never do that again" moments. I did mine while I was training, and my PD Nurse let me go ahead and do it. Her opinion was that having as many 'incidents' during training was best because she was there to keep control of the situation. It will settle down, I'm sure.

[beachbum]

beachbum, got to hate when you pull the clamps too soon. But we've all done it, I'm sure. It's one of those "I'll never do that again" moments. I did mine while I was training, and my PD Nurse let me go ahead and do it. Her opinion was that having as many 'incidents' during training was best because she was there to keep control of the situation. It will settle down, I'm sure.

The worst part was I didn't even realize I did it until there was a huge puddle that had traveled all the way to my tv lol

[Joe]

bummer...

[Riki]

I've done that more than once.. There is a permanent stain on the carpet in my bedroom. *LOL*

[tbarrett2533]

FYI:::::

I have "PEED"  (thats what Mandy my PD nurse calls it) on myself more than a few times 

its bound to happen........
I did it in training and I did home at least twice....................   (Once was a mistake the other time I was in a hurry  )

[mcclane]

starting dialysis, easy

getting off it, hard 

[Riki]

starting dialysis, easy

getting off it, hard 

Truer words were never spoken

[kitkatz]

Dialysis has never been easy.  The time away from home, the needle sticks, the people- nurses, techs, docs, family and friends who make it harder than it as to be, the dialysis centers, hospital stays, and etc.  Never been easy.  Thirteen years later...

[fearless]

I'd just second noahvale's comment.  good wisdom there.

and also those who say: it's not really "easy", but you can do it regardless.  I really had the rug pulled out from under me when I started - I didn't know which end was up.  And I thought I was being given a death sentence because I knew dialysis was incredibly expensive, and I had no way to pay, so I figured I was dead. 

But, like noahvale, I sometimes find myself wondering how this became my life.  Sometimes I wake up and, just before I remember that I'm on D, I have a vague memory of myself pre-D, and then I remember, and it's such a weird feeling.

But you've already been through the mental/emotional part of having kidney disease.  I'm thinking dialysis will be more of a physical change than anything.  And that may be the easiest part after all!