I saw the girl patient that was brought in on a stretcher walk on Tuesday. It was after dialysis and she was walking out of the dialysis center to a car in the parking lot. She had pretty large leg braces on both legs and was using a walker. I had to use a walker for several weeks after the heart surgery. Anyway, she was walking super slow since she could not bend her knees, and it looked exhausting. Did something else happen? Was that complications from dialysis treatment?
Well, on Thursday, she was wheeled in and out on a stretcher again. I’ve only seen her try to walk that one time. Same thing Saturday: in and out on a stretcher. Maybe she’s not healed enough for walking yet, or whatever condition she has got worse. Ugh, if kidney failure doesn’t kill you, dialysis slowly will. That is why I’m pissed off at UCLA right now. Unless the medical director tells us something surprising, I think they just wasted two years of my life on dialysis.
And f*ck Trump for getting our hopes up with his executive order on kidney transplants and home dialysis last year… then not following up with anything. What was the point of the totally useless executive order? Nothing has changed.
Life with chronic diseases 