As she was hooking me up to the dialysis machine this morning, my nurse mentioned that there was increased resistance in the blood flow in my catheter and may need to go to the hospital for an anti-coagulant drip. My dialysis is complicated by my allergy to heparin. The dialysis center cannot inject heparin into the machine during dialysis to prevent/minimize blood clots.
Similar to Thursday, one of the alarms kept going off about 2.5 hours into dialysis. I think the display said “TMP too high” where TMP is high transmembrane pressure. They tried to fix the problem but ended up replacing the dialyzer filter with a new one.
Happy 100th post (even thought this is #102). I didn’t think I had that much to say but as long as I am receiving dialysis, I’ll try to post something. I will shut down this blog right after my kidney transplant surgery.
Life with chronic diseases 