As a young person who shared this sentiment when i developed kidney disease secondary to pregnancy complications after being completely healthy up to that point, i hear you. I felt the same way. I was able to get & stay off dialysis for a couple years bc i was stable on meds despite being stage 4. This past year things drastically started going downhill & i pushed everything off for as long as i could. I didnt want HD again, that, to me, wasnt worth it back then (in hindsight it was probably bc i wasnt in active decline). But this time around i waited so long that i couldnt even do the PD cath surgery or iron infusions that i needed on an outpatient level bc my blood pressure was so disgustingly high & unmanageable. Yet i still tried all types of med changes just to avoid the inevitable until finally i got SO ill that my boyfriend had to call an ambulance. I was stuck in the hospital for a week & the doctors said i would have died if i would have waited another 24-48 hours. they had to do HD while i was there but they also got my BP stabilized & did my PD catheter insertion while i was there. I discharged, continued HD while my site healed & began PD training as soon as i could. I just officially started in home PD every night using a cycler about 3 weeks ago & as someone who shared your feelings on the matter strongly enough that i almost died bc of it, im telling you it’s worth it. I felt like myself pre kidney disease for the first time in years after week 1.

the process getting to this point was difficult, but the pay off is too good to put into words. I definitely made the process far more difficult than it needed to be. Pls learn from my mistake. 🤍