Home Dialysis Patients: What Brings YOU Joy?

I have the utmost admiration for those on dialysis who manage full-time employment. Not only does dialysis takes a toll on our strength, but there is also the labor of ordering and storing supplies and of setting up, running, and spending hours on the machine. I also salute those with young children. Anything that is a distraction from the relentless discipline of dialysis is a challenge.

Many happy hours of writing and casting have given me worthwhile distraction, and the satisfaction of knowing they have brought pleasure to others.

I am the care partner for my husband who is a home hemodialysis client. I like the word client as it places the emphasis on being a costumer not on being ill. There are so many ways to adjust to your life as either a care partner in the dialysis process or the recipient.

My husband and I try to always focus on the positive sides of like and find humour in every day living. Hobbies are one way to enhance quality of life.