My wife had both of her kidneys removed due to cancerous tumors and has been on home hemo for about 6 months. PD is not an option for her due to abdominal scarring from the kidney removal surgeries. Thus far, we've had a nurse come to the house four days per week to administer the dialysis, but will soon start training to do it ourselves.
How easy is it for you to run the machine yourself? Do you have a fistula, and where on your arm is it? My wife's is such that she basically cannot bend her left arm while getting dialysis, and this makes me question her ability to run everything herself. My impression was that having a second person there was practically mandatory in case any issues arose.
As you can see, I'm pretty blown away that you can do this on your own. :-)
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My wife had both of her kidneys removed due to cancerous tumors and has been on home hemo for about 6 months. PD is not an option for her due to abdominal scarring from the kidney removal surgeries. Thus far, we've had a nurse come to the house four days per week to administer the dialysis, but will soon start training to do it ourselves.
How easy is it for you to run the machine yourself? Do you have a fistula, and where on your arm is it? My wife's is such that she basically cannot bend her left arm while getting dialysis, and this makes me question her ability to run everything herself. My impression was that having a second person there was practically mandatory in case any issues arose.
As you can see, I'm pretty blown away that you can do this on your own. :-)
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