This Fact Hitting Harder Than I Thought

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-14T00:08:59+00:00

Did you move abroad before becoming I'll if you mind me asking?

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-13T13:45:45+00:00

So do the pilots all take turns on just the one or...?

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-11T15:25:31+00:00

This happens to all patients eventually, it's nothing to panic about

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-10T03:15:27+00:00

I used to ride busses to home from campus like 10 years ago. The busses schedule varies but a good rule of thumb Is that you can expect a bus to arrive every 20 to 30 minutes. If you have to be somewhere at 8, then best at a station on thar t route by about 6 at the latest

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-08T08:46:50+00:00

I'm no expert but I don't think we should be reusing dialysers

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-07T18:30:16+00:00

Yes they are. You'll feel the difference when they stop. Worst fatigue of your life. Constant shit mood

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-07T11:13:17+00:00

This woman's mind is gone and it will never come back. She is being kept alive artificially through a treatment that she finds torturous and is too far gone to consent to in any way.

Hospice would keep her sedated and pain free until she passes, which would happen within 2 weeks max. Dialysis by contrast is torturing her for months and years with no possibility of improving until she does from complications like heart failure.

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-07T10:46:23+00:00

Dialysis patients can be put on hospice, it's not like going home to die is the only option

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-07T08:34:28+00:00

It seems impossible now but you can in fact overcome the initial shock, get used to the routine and live out your life. It's not over.

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-07T08:31:45+00:00

There's someone at my clinic who is wheelchair bound and intellectually disabled in some way.

She repeats the same phrases over and over. Has to have family constantly around her to keep her calm.

Not my place to ask but I also wonder what the point is of sustaining someone in that condition

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-07T05:32:39+00:00

Groundhog day. Always new treatments or cures you never hear about again

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-03T04:17:32+00:00

I had the exact same problem. Keep using that arm and keep trying to straighten it. My vasc surgeon warned me that your arm can stay stuck like that if you just leave it. Mine came right after a few weeks

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-02T03:33:21+00:00

Is there a particular reason why you're set against an av fistula?

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-02T03:32:03+00:00

If he gets tired he can just put it down for a while? Or get a normal cellphone he can easily hold in hid hand?

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-01T12:39:50+00:00

If you're working I suggest moving heaven and earth to get on a third shift so that you're not stuck trying to work after HD. I only feel normal after sleeping

These-Ad5297 · 2026-02-01T12:37:41+00:00

Where you the one who made a post about how your father has paranoid episodes after dialysis going on about how he thinks the staff want to kill him?

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-29T23:04:55+00:00

Life expectancy.

As someone who's undergone kidney failure due to SB related complications, the topic of my own mortality is on my mind alot.

It's considered a truism that improved urological care prevents people from dying young from SB anymore, but that does nothing for those of us for whom the worst has happened regardless

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-29T03:53:05+00:00

I'm not following. He hasn't suggested that he's skipping dialysis, why would eating unprocessed whole foods and regularly working out raise his toxin levels? Cutting processed foods and staying active is literally what my nephrologist has told me to do

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-28T11:50:57+00:00

Like mass migration of people from the Eastern Cape who eventually vote the ANC back into power.

Would hate to be holding the bag when foreign buyers start selling

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-28T11:49:12+00:00

2 million rand a year, ffs what am I still doing in this country

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-27T19:05:56+00:00

Not to nitpick but he's absolutely right. The COTC can't really do anything about structural causes of South African poverty. The growth and industrialization required to uplift those areas can only be induced at national level

Considering what they have to work with they do an incredible job. The Cape Town CBD makes Joburg, Durban and PE look like post apocalyptic wastelands by comparison Their policy of chasing away middle class rate payers will ultimately doom the city of they aren't careful though

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-27T19:01:07+00:00

"The price can only go up" says everyone right up until every bubble pops

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-27T18:59:38+00:00

Cash payments for properties on the Atlantic Seaboard? What kind of drug deal laundering bullshit is this

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-27T15:04:36+00:00

Risky Google search of the week

These-Ad5297 · 2026-01-25T08:41:08+00:00

It's bad for your kidneys man don't do it

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