Tag: dialysis
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My Weekend Thoughts
Saturday seems like a month ago already. I just had to pause a few minutes to think about my activity from that day. Mom and I had to gas up the car and my car and get groceries in 22 degree weather. Even with my dressing for the weather I still froze while gassing up…
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My Wednesday Morning…
Since I found out today would be the viewing for this man I have to admit I have dreaded it. For some reason, even though I know the ladies that worked at Dialysis have never actually been seen at the viewings of the patients they say they love, don’t show up. I was early today…
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A Fact of Life… & Dialysis
This morning I was rehashing with my boyfriend SAD-seasonal affective disorder. I have had to live with it with some family members. Most recently the weather has made walking much colder and harder to walk outside. Around here there aren’t too many good areas for exercise for free. Stress and lack of sunlight during the…
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Self-Inspection
Starting on Wednesday some memories began hitting me. The question of what I was doing last year right before Thanksgiving… well it nearly took me back to that frustration I had almost forgotten. Last year I was working the not so glamorous job of a Patient Care Technician at a Dialysis Clinic. I was so…
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Mowing Chronicles: In Laws
While, Mom and I, were mowing over our illustrious decade a lot of different phases set in. There was a time when we just came and mowed, then Grandma began to feed us as much as she could. Grandma was always the loving and adoring host. She still wants to make us as comfortable as…
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A Walking Contradiction
Do you ever feel like you are a conundrum? My Podiatrist and his associates have told me at least a few times this gout means you can’t do this or your plantar fasciitis means no you can’t be doing this. So I have been told to stop eating this, no you can’t walk for exercise,…
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17 Centuries In Between Epidemics
Reading these books this year, after a lull of at least 3 years the situation of epidemics seemed fresh. Although I have questions as to the validity of that argument. These books detail an explicit epidemic where dead bodies were literally out on the streets piling up. Did we actually see this type of urgency?…
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Dialysis
My Uncle’s course was set 5 years before he died. The evidence has shown that most people, but not all only make it a few years. Dialysis takes a lot of a person’s already vulnerable body. As part of a patient’s family, because we are going through the process a bit differently but nevertheless we…
Jewells of Thought 