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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: okarol on March 03, 2008, 09:16:40 PM
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I came across this on the internet, thought it was interesting:
discontinuing kidney dialysis
by Patsy23, Dec 05, 2007 12:00AM
My 78-yr old mother, a Type 1 diabetic for 62 years, decided to quit her kidney dialysis after much consideration. After a heart attack, her kidneys finally failed, and she was on dialysis for approx 2 years before she decided to quit. She never felt any better after the dialysis treatments, in fact she felt worse on those days, and she also gained other symptoms such as sharp body pains and fainting spells. It has been 13 months now since her last dialysis treatment, her creatinine remains around 3.3, and she has many of the symptoms of end stage renal failure, but she keeps on going! Everything we read on the Internet says most people pass away within weeks/months of discontinuing dialysis, so we don't know what to expect. She doesn't want to continue feeling lousy all the time, and her doctors keep increasing her medications - to help with nausea, tiredness, recent drastic vision loss, etc. Do you know of many cases where someone lives for over a year with minimal kidney function? Her doctors aren't any help explaining what's happening to her, and I live 6 states away!
http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/diabetes/messages/1883.html
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Now that would be miserable!
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I guess with her creatinine at 3.3 she has some kidney function but didn't she stop treatment for a reason? that reason being to pass. Instead she is going through hell...don't get it...Boxman
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Reminded me of Art Buchwald, he quit dialysis and was in hospice care, but lasted a lot longer than anyone expected. http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=2044.0
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Although of course they cannot admit to this practice openly, most hospices will give the patient a bolus of morphine, ostensibly for 'pain control,' to end the misery in cases such as this.
Failing that, you can always take the patient to Switzerland, where the physicians who work for the organization 'Dignitas' will help her die quickly and painlessly. This service, which costs only a nominal fee, is available to any patient in endstage misery regardless of nationality, and is perfectly legal in an enlightened country like Switzerland. Dignitas has an internet site where you can contact them, explain the situation, and arrange for the service, which unfortunately can only be performed in Switzerland.
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Can you do a little sight seeing first. ;D ...Boxman
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Can you do a little sight seeing first. ;D ...Boxman
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl; Would skiing be an option, too, before the "procedure"? (Well, heck, it would have to be "before" the procedure, now wouldn't it? That was a dumb thing for me to say. :banghead;)
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
:rofl; :rofl; Good one, Stauffenberg!
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
OMG!! Stauffenberg has a sense of humor?? Who knew? :o
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
OMG!! Stauffenberg has a sense of humor?? Who knew? :o
KT -- when I read that post, I had to look twice -- no, three times -- until it finally sunk in that it really was from Stauffenberg. He does have a sense of humor!! :bandance;
Stauffenberg -- that's a side of you I've never seen here, but, I like it -- oh, I like it!!! :thumbup; How about showing that side of yourself more often? It's quite becoming on you.
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A post from you Stauffenberg that aatually made me laugh! Wow, who knew you had it in ya! Want to go skiing??? :rofl;jk! Good to see another side of you!
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See Stauffenberg make us ladies laugh and we're putty in your hands. :2thumbsup;
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C'mon now, take it easy on Stauffenberg or he will never be humorous again!
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Wow, that is something, Stauffenberg made me laugh too.
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We love you, Stauffenberg!! :grouphug;
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Stauffy, the most erudite poster on IHD, possessed of the blackest life attitude has a sense of humor? An amazing turn of events. Perhaps a posting Pulitzer is in the offing?/bobt
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Having seen this humurous post from Staufenberg I *KNOW* my transplant call is right around the corner!! There's nothing else left in life to see so it HAS to be now!!! :D
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Oh i am so glad it isnt only me that thought stauffenberg was a serious person and just gave us the factual stuff !!
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
A tree, ooops a tree!
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C'mon Stauph where are you on this, you've shown your human side, now respond further. Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph Stauph
Actually it was Stauphenburg that turned the 'Any More Brits out There on Dialysis' thread into the Kingdom thread that it became when because he had spent some of his life in Britain he asked if he could become an honorary Brit. The rest as they say is history. Check it out on page one.
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Ha! The brits got a "Stauf Infection" Hehehehe :rofl;
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Ah, good one Karol! :rofl;
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Ha! The brits got a "Stauf Infection" Hehehehe :rofl;
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The way I ski, I wouldn't need the procedure afterward.
Stauffenberg made a funny! I knew you had something else to say than that doom and gloom stuff. Do it more. Humor is what makes us more human. You have such a style of writing that I think if you let it out you'd be very funny in a Monty Pythonesque, British, dark wit kind of humor.
Wow
Donna
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He just won't take the bait will he?
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I think he'll sneak up on us when we aren't expecting it :2thumbsup; But despite the fact he often seems to look on the negative side, I think he makes some valid and valuable points and raises issues that need to be raised. I still love it when he's funny though. :clap;
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I think he'll sneak up on us when we aren't expecting it :2thumbsup; But despite the fact he often seems to look on the negative side, I think he makes some valid and valuable points and raises issues that need to be raised. I still love it when he's funny though. :clap;
That's true Rose but he's only been funny once!