ABL and I met with the home hemo nurse yesterday, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I had been mislead when I was originally told about Home Hemo. Home Hemo was touted as a procedure that would only take 2 hours per day for 6 days. Which made sense to me, after all, I'm in the center for 12 hours a week. ERRRH. Try almost 4 hours per day 6 days a week (190 minutes up to 217 minutes). That's double what I had been expecting. Of course home hemo will be better for me, I'll be dialyzing twice as long. To make matters worse, I still have to show up at the dialysis clinic (in this case Fairfax - a 40 minute drive) once per week to get IV meds. AND I have to go back to giving myself subq shots of EPO. Right now, these meds are delivered into my IV line while I'm dialyzing; but for some reason, I won't be allowed to administer these meds the same way. What's that about? By my math, I'll be getting stuck almost 3 times as much. At this point, the only real benefit is the potential for no-hassle travel and I'm guessing as I learn more, there'll be a catch to that as well.
"The Only Real Benefit Is..."
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