skwert99

Typical Jewell00.

In the US, most all insurance will pay for in-center or home the same. The cost to them is similar among all the options. It's primarily a matter of your ability to do the treatments properly.

A little of everything. After a major medical issue, many people just want to relax and sort of reset their life. This is something she'll have for the rest of it. My guess is she's on Reddi and figured she might as well make a post and chat for a couple hours. The education about different lab values and such will come with time. Chastising her for not studying everything (as I see quite a few comments) immediately isn't going to help. Everybody copes with change differently. So long as she's not doing anything immediately dangerous (say bananas and orange juice for breakfast), she'll do alright just relaxing for now.

In general, you can do whatever, you just don't want to move the arm with needles in them too much.

Dialysis is really quite socialized among medical areas. Medicare pays for the vast majority of patients, and they don't care which way you go. Statistically quality of life, cost, mortality rate, etc it all averages out to similar rates.

That leaves it primarily up to the patient, what they want, what they have the ability to do, family support, etc.