The nurse practitioner exhaled completely as she plopped down next to me in the clinic workroom — as if she had used up her last bit of energy. She had spent the last hour with a 75-year-old man with severe chronic kidney disease.
another birthday checkup
Another birthday has come and gone, which means another reminder to find out how my right kidney is faring since I gave away her mate 11 years ago.
make it stop
The distress call came to me fourth-hand in the form of an email. The colleague of a colleague’s wife’s father wondered if I could help because the father was contemplating stopping the peritoneal dialysis his wife had been helping him do at home for the last several years.
11 years and counting!
Celebrating 2 healthy kidneys between us...since April 14, 2005. Happy re-birthday Robert!