KidneyViews
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.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
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,
As Nancy Hewitt Spaeth’s Earthly Journey Ends, Her Inspiration Lives On
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On January 14, the world lost a passionate and fiesty advocate for people living their best lives after kidney failure.
Published on 01/20/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Permission to Thrive – Part 1: Introduction
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Learning to cope with your chronic illness may allow you to maintain and even improve your quality of life.
Published on 01/13/2022 by April McGraw, RN, CNN
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Chronic Pain: Might People on Dialysis Benefit from Dr. Francomano's 5% Strategy?
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The global challenge to pain management has not changed since the 1970s when I worked for Dr. Berkowitz: we do not have an “objective” way to measure someone else’s pain.
Published on 01/06/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
In Case You Missed Them: 2021 Blogs by Dialyzors & Care Partners
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This year, 2/3 of our blogs were written by people who are living each day with dialysis.
Published on 12/23/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Putting the Pieces Together: Our Evolving Teamwork
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In the next weeks, we went through Kubher-Ross’s five stages of grief in textbook fashion.
Published on 12/16/2021 by Philip Martin
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,
Buttonhole Cannulation Revisited: A Procedure for Safe Scab Removal to Prevent Infection
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As with most trends in our society, things that were once given top billing fall out of the public limelight—and then resurface with a new look.
Published on 12/09/2021 by Peggy Bushey
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Just 5 Days Left to Choose a Health or Medicare Part D Plan for 2022!
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If you have Medicare Part A and/or B but don't have a drug plan as good as Medicare Part D, Part D can help you pay for your meds. Your drug plan should let you know each year if it is as good as Part D
Published on 12/02/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Finding Empathy and Connection through Gratitude
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Forty years ago, Harold Benjamin described unwanted aloneness as one of the universal experiences of living with the effects of a life-threatening diagnosis, such as end-stage kidney disease.
Published on 11/25/2021 by Renata Sledge, PhD, LCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,