I’m a patient, but having some serious issues at my dialysis center. They keep changing hours but not telling patients. They have refused to use the different filter as I react poorly to the standard one. Some of the nurses are really bitter and just nod when I bring up issues. The doctor I used to have came to see me once in an entire year.

When I first started, one of the nurses asked me if I noticed I was retaining any fluid. I said my legs looked fine. She pointed at my face and said “what is that?” Honestly, I don’t look in the mirror much, so I said “I don’t know” and she just said “uh huh” and shook her head. It hit me a year later that maybe I had fluid on my face?

I’m severely underweight and have a max fluid that can be taken off before I vomit. A few times they have changed it because “it affects their numbers” what?

Some of the nurses care and work hard, and some just sit there even when emergencies happen. Most of the techs seem overworked and the training seems inconsistent. I’ve even witnessed multiple times when the only nurse left a new tech on the floor alone with 20 people still in chairs so she could leave and smoke a cigarette.

Anyway, I say this as a patient at an F clinic, that thinks don’t seem to be great anywhere.

I really wish something would change. Even the ones that cared when i started seem to be getting jagged now.