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Kidney Disease
8 years ago
Hi, I just want to take some time to talk about something that affects me on a daily basis. Not because I have the disease but because my mother does.
Kidney disease is something that will affect more people than diabetes in a person's life time but is hardly ever spoken about. This is because medications most diabetics need like Metphormin cause loss of kidney function. They stay alive by going to the hospital every other day for 4 hours at a time to get their blood filtered by a machine. And the longer they stay on dialysis, without receiving a transplant kidney, the shorter their life expectancy. And then? They're on anti-rejection medication the rest of their life and every time they get sick, they risk dying. Even going to a restaurant becomes a gamble if the restaurant over works their employees. And don't forget sicknesses without warning signs like TB. IF a person doesn't want to go to the hospital every other day, there is something called peritenile dialysis, but they inject a saline solution into your abdomen and the fluid must be changed twice a month. But once you have this proceedure done you may not ever submerge your abdomen, ever. Floods? Pools? Lakes? Ship sinks? None of it.
I'm.. Very passionate about it. So many other diseases get a lot more funding and publicity. But this is something so large... More people need kidney transplants than people need heart transplants. I'm not putting other illnesses or diseases down, but this is also a very serious thing we need to research and support.
Kidney disease is something that will affect more people than diabetes in a person's life time but is hardly ever spoken about. This is because medications most diabetics need like Metphormin cause loss of kidney function. They stay alive by going to the hospital every other day for 4 hours at a time to get their blood filtered by a machine. And the longer they stay on dialysis, without receiving a transplant kidney, the shorter their life expectancy. And then? They're on anti-rejection medication the rest of their life and every time they get sick, they risk dying. Even going to a restaurant becomes a gamble if the restaurant over works their employees. And don't forget sicknesses without warning signs like TB. IF a person doesn't want to go to the hospital every other day, there is something called peritenile dialysis, but they inject a saline solution into your abdomen and the fluid must be changed twice a month. But once you have this proceedure done you may not ever submerge your abdomen, ever. Floods? Pools? Lakes? Ship sinks? None of it.
I'm.. Very passionate about it. So many other diseases get a lot more funding and publicity. But this is something so large... More people need kidney transplants than people need heart transplants. I'm not putting other illnesses or diseases down, but this is also a very serious thing we need to research and support.
sky-the-wolf
~sky-the-wolf
All I hear is cancer nowa days and no one barely pays any attention to the smaller yet strong sicknesses
Tame_Yosima
~tameyosima
OP
It really is true. Like, cancer research is a great cause, but there are other things.
sky-the-wolf
~sky-the-wolf
And we can't help because we won't see enough about it.
Tame_Yosima
~tameyosima
OP
Not enough of us come out to the media about what we go through for them to think it's worth airing. We're just so glad our loved one(s) aren't dead. But... Just because they can be considered stable doesn't mean it isn't an issue.
sky-the-wolf
~sky-the-wolf
Exactly
We are SO close to learning how to "manufacture" organs ourselves. I pray maybe in our lifetimes, we'll hear of some breakthrough that will once and for all end the need for a transplant list.
Tame_Yosima
~tameyosima
OP
Me too.
