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Everyday
Living Compared to Everyday Living on Dialysis
Losing your job is a huge adjustment; however,
being fired from your job due to a chronic illness is life altering.
Everyone
is tired after a long day at the office; however, four hours on a
dialysis machine three days a week is physically and mentally exhausting.
Not
being able to get to work due to car problems is frustrating; however,
not being able to get to dialysis is life threatening.
Limiting food
so you don’t gain weight is difficult; however, restricting
your entire diet for the rest of your life is very challenging.
Drinking
lots of water is recommended for healthy people; however, drinking
less than a 2 liter bottle of liquid a day is what dialysis patients
must try to do!
Imagine if your spouse passes on… making arrangements,
family comes to town, the funeral; however, you still need to go
to dialysis for your treatment to keep yourself alive.
Your daughter
is graduation from college in another state. Imagine the anxiety
you would have receiving a treatment in a dialysis unit where you
don’t know anyone!
Level 3 snow days usually close down a city; however,
you must go to dialysis no matter how dangerous.
Going out to lunch
at a new restaurant with friends is fun; however, not when on dialysis
because you have to find something on the menu that is low in potassium,
low in phosphorous and low in salt.
A man’s best friend is a dog;
however, not if you are on peritoneal dialysis- the pet hair could
cause life threatening infection.
Everyone has had to take a prescription
medication to get rid of a nasty cold; however, having to take 10
medications every day for the rest of your life to help you live
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