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Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
Home Hemodialysis: It Gets Easier!
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Even though I’d been an RN for 45 years, I’d never heard of home dialysis.
Published on 02/24/2022 by Philip Martin
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,
Permission to Thrive Chapter 1: Understand Your Diagnosis
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The more I learned about how my illnesses affected me, the better equipped I was to handle it and cope effectively
Published on 02/17/2022 by April McGraw, RN, CNN
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Dialysis in the Times of COVID!
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Living with dialysis in the times of COVID is difficult, to say the least. The challenges of daily living have been altered to incorporate new safety measures
Published on 02/10/2022 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
CathPal and Stonewell Industries: By a PD Patient for PD Patients
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I wrote this post five years after a point in my life when some of the happiest moments turned into the worst moments in an instant.
Published on 02/03/2022 by Jenny Ishii
Tags: Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Dialysis World has Come Full Circle
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I observed that the common denominator of patients who did the best were those who dialyzed at home, whether with PD or home HD. The home HD patients tended to look better, have better outcomes, and simply be living their lives to the fullest.
Published on 01/27/2022 by Jane Hafner, RN, BSN
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,