Typically it’s freezing inside the dialysis clinic so I’ve been wearing a lot of layers. Today I wore a short sleeved button shirt (I taped up the PD catheter so no special t-shirt), a thin cotton jacket, and a down filled vest. Usually this has been fine temperature-wise but with about an hour remaining, suddenly I felt super hot. I ended up asking the nurse for help removing two layers of clothes so all I have is the shirt, and mostly unbuttoned due to the chest catheter. Normally I would be freezing but I feel fine now. There is 34 minutes left; I hope I don’t feel cold again and catch a cold.
Also, the arterial pressure alarm has been going off constantly for about an hour. One of the techs though my lines were twisted while another tech tried lowering the flow rate. Finally the nurse came by and swapped the connectors at the catheter, red for blue and vice versa, and it seems to work now. I guess the blue and red don’t mean anything.
Arg! My right ankle is hurting constantly now and my left leg feels terrible from the compression sock I’m wearing. Only 26 minutes left…
Life with chronic diseases 
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