The girl that has recently been coming in to dialysis on a stretcher is no longer here. I just noticed that she hasn’t been showing up for two weeks now. Hopefully she got a transplant or transferred to another dialysis clinic.
I know the mortality rate is pretty high for dialysis patients. Hopefully she is ok.
Mortality rates vary depending on the kidney failure treatment. After one year of treatment, those on dialysis have a 20-25% mortality rate, with a 5-year survival rate of 35%.
https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/need/statistics
As I was walking out of dialysis Thursday, I noticed another patient being wheeled on a stretcher. Ugh, is that becoming more common? I don’t remember seeing patients on stretchers before stretcher girl above.
Life with chronic diseases 
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