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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.
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How I weaned myself off Benzos for sleep
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Before the COVID pandemic in 2020, I never had trouble sleeping. But during the lockdown, when we were all working from home, my physical activity decreased, and I started having insomnia.
Published on 12/11/2025 by Kamal Shah
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Lost in Transplantation: A Living Donor’s Perspective
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For me, it was merely an encounter with a person with kidney disease who raised my consciousness about a particular form of suffering and I chose to act upon it.
Published on 03/05/2015 by Eldonna Edwards
Tags: altruism, transplant,
Home Hemodialysis vs. Transplant: The Elephant in the Room
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Rather than focus on transplant alone as “ the treatment of choice,” why not focus on getting as many people as possible more kidney replacement therapy?
Published on 09/25/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: transplant, dialysis, kidney replacement therapy, quality of life,