My tale of woe :)

[LifeOnHold]

I started dialysis in 1988, when I was 23.  I had had a baby in 1982, with lots of complications that ended up overloading my kidneys.

In the summer of 1988 I had been getting really nauseous and vomiting at work, but I thought it was the flu since I felt better in air-conditioning.  When I couldn't even hold down water, I went to the doctor and was told that I needed to start dialysis as soon as possible.  After getting a graft (OW!) I started dialysis a week later.  It was a real nightmare-- crashing, cramping, vomiting.  I got a transplant from my mother, but it only lasted 3 years.  Then I was on PD for 3 years, but after a lot of peritonitis, I had to go back to hemo.  I have been on in-center hemo for the past ten years.

I have outlived almost all of the patients I started hemo with... with a death rate of about 21 percent per year, you'd figure everyone should be dead in five or six years, but here I am! 


(You might also remember me from the Dialysis Online website... my name there is Mars)

[Epoman]

I started dialysis in 1988, when I was 23.  I had had a baby in 1982, with lots of complications that ended up overloading my kidneys.

In the summer of 1988 I had been getting really nauseous and vomiting at work, but I thought it was the flu since I felt better in air-conditioning.  When I couldn't even hold down water, I went to the doctor and was told that I needed to start dialysis as soon as possible.  After getting a graft (OW!) I started dialysis a week later.  It was a real nightmare-- crashing, cramping, vomiting.  I got a transplant from my mother, but it only lasted 3 years.  Then I was on PD for 3 years, but after a lot of peritonitis, I had to go back to hemo.  I have been on in-center hemo for the past ten years.

I have outlived almost all of the patients I started hemo with... with a death rate of about 21 percent per year, you'd figure everyone should be dead in five or six years, but here I am! 


(You might also remember me from the Dialysis Online website... my name there is Mars)

I'm glad your here, I hope we can recruit more members here since I think this forum is more easy to navigate. "Dialysis Online" is a great site but I think it is hard to navigate on. Spread the word about this place.

[LifeOnHold]

I don't know, the spam on the Nephrologists board over there is pretty amusing... I never knew there were so many Asian Babe Dating Sites!