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One day, someone inside the dialysis unit will call my name and say, I remember her. It is the cycle of life. People come and go. As a dialysis patient, get used to it, so say the veteran patients and nurses. The other day I remembered to ask about Kenneth, a patient I hadn’t seen in a few weeks. Last …
My amazingly talented friend Aubrey Smith of Settler’s Cove Productions asked me to do a documentary on my journey so far. I was hesitant at first, but allowed him to do his thing. Didn’t understand his inspiration entirely, but I can see it in the quality of his work. Check out the recently released trailer.
When I walked to Nurse Sears’ office I passed the entrance to the dialysis treatment room; it was the picture of a human factory: Rows of machines with people lying on beds hooked up by tubes; nurses bustling about plugging in and unplugging patients; everything in motion like an assembly line. As one bed became free it was cleaned and a new …
Yesterday I heard myself on Carlton Smith’s radio show babbling on about living life filled with passion and vigor – it was my advice to other young people – and I had to smile to myself. Kidney disease sucked the life out of me, sinking me to the depths of depression, for the second serious time in my life. How …
My first introduction to catheters was as a teenager. I was in a car accident with my boyfriend. He broke his hip; I had a concussion and we both ended up in hospital. Although we were on different floors, on different wards, we couldn’t have been any closer. At night, we’d sneak phone calls on the hospital landline and fall …