More Fistula Nightmares

I saw another patient’s arm today while the technician was hooking him up to the dialysis machine. It’s even uglier and scarier looking than what I saw last week. He had several huge purple lumps the size of golf balls in his arm. The tech would poke the needles right into the middle of it. Meanwhile, one of the nephrologist checked out my new fistula and said it’s almost ready. Again, I hope that it won’t blow up at first use. Maybe the fistulas I’ve seen are super old and new ones aren’t that freaky looking.

I was going to place a picture here but they’re all too scary looking. Just Google “dialysis fistula” and click on images.