What do you wish your family understood about kidney disease?

[kitkatz]

I wish people at work would realize after working with 6th graders all day I am usually dog tired and apt to be snappy at a meeting when we do not get on with it!!!

[Ricksters]

I wish my family really understood what being on dialysis is like!  My son in law is a nephrologist, so my daughter should have a clue.  She thinks I am being selfish when I come to visit her and need to leave by 5:00 so that I don;t have to drive 3-1/2 hrs to get home in the dark, and can still connect to my PD machine at a decent hour.  I can understand that with 4 kids ages 6 months to 7 it is easier for me to go there than her to visit me....okay, venting over...I just know that I raised her better than this!