A friend, put me in touch with a company that is building an App to help dialysis patients. The government has collected data on every dialysis facility, including how well the center treats a patients anemia, how adequately the patients are dialyzed, and how likely the patients are to survive. Apparently, the information has been out there, but very few people knew about it. I'm advising them from a patient's perspective. I just went back and re-read blog posts from the early days of dialysis and I think I just gave myself PTSD...I can still vividly recall the blood pressure after treatment being so high my head would feel like it was splitting open. The fluid overload making it hard to breathe. Fear. Uncertainty. Cramping. The fistula surgeries that felt like someone was using a roto-rooter inside my arm. The very real possibility of death. I think I should delete those old posts so I can forget what it was like.
"Feelings...Nothing More Than..."
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