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.
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Drive-Through Dialysis
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I am angry. I am angry at myself for taking the path of least resistance and allowing myself to be a victim of sub-optimal dialysis treatment for the past year.

Published on 12/15/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
A Home Dialyzor’s Comments to CMS About the Proposed QIP Measures
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I feel better than I had for the previous 20 years, while avoiding dialysis at all costs. I could not do this without home dialysis.

Published on 09/15/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Home Dialyzors in Vegas: It’s a Safe Bet!
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Beat the odds, and join your fellow dialyzers in Las Vegas this October for a long weekend (Columbus Day holiday October 7-10) for some educational sessions on dialysis in general, and specifically trends in nocturnal dialysis.

Published on 08/25/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Dialysis Choice or Dollars?
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The new, “Choosing Dialysis” Arbor decision tool [...] still only provides for two treatment options: in-center HD and peritoneal dialysis.

Published on 06/30/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Switching Partners
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I realized how important, almost symbiotic, my relationship with my clinic had become. Next to my fistula, this was an important lifeline, and when, after almost two months, no new had nurse appeared, I felt at sea.

Published on 04/21/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Enabled to be Disabled
(4 comments)
As I talk to more and more dialyzers, some who have been on since childhood, others for most of the last 20-30 years, the consistent theme I keep hearing is, “my life, my way”.

Published on 03/26/2015 by Nieltje Gedney
Family as Caregivers
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Family and kidney disease can be complicated. Actually family and most any disease can be complicated, but when dialysis is involved there are no rules.

Published on 01/22/2015 by Nieltje Gedney
In-Center
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"Now that I’m settled into the routine of home hemo treatments, I can take a moment to reflect on what it was like to do dialysis in-center."

Published on 12/04/2014 by Nieltje Gedney