***Just a thought ... ***

[Zach]

http://www.pbfluids.com/2010/05/my-feelings-about-kidney-transplant_24.html

[monrein]

  

[Jean]

looks like an interesting site Zach . Lots of stuff. And of course,Simpson humor to boot. Tee hehehehe.

[MooseMom]

OK, this is where I get myself into trouble.  So, I click on to this link and have a chuckle, and then decide, stupidly, to look around the site some more, and I come across the piece regarding hyperkalemia as an indication for dialysis.  The overreaching point of the piece is that dialysis is actually an uncommon result of ESRD as the vast majority of patients with CKD die of something else before reaching renal failure.  So I guess that means that if I eventually DO go onto dialysis (with a gfr of 16, it's around the corner), I should be grateful that I survived long enough to GET to go on D.  Oh man...that's a downer.

[Zach]

I should have just posted the cartoon without the link.
Sorry.
 

[Stoday]

Most men who get prostate cancer die of something else before it gets them.

Virtually no one dies of old age. Some disease or an accident gets to them first.

[jbeany]

My grandmother reached the age of 91 with CKD.  She's on hospice now, because the pain from a really, really bad case of shingles weakened her to the point that she is no longer able to eat.  She still hasn't got low enough renal function to really need D, even if she wanted to mess with it at her age.  She is dying of "something else" without ever going into "complete" renal failure.

Like I said in the your other post about this, I think you are misinterpreting his meanings and use of terms.