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Harold doing well after second Dialysis. My nephew has long personal experience with all things kidney and suggests the following two sites for cogitating over future dialysis options:
www.davita.com
"Davita is a major player in the Dialysis market in regards to in-center and at-home care. Their website has some useful information regarding general Dialysis care and maintenance (Diet, Medications and Treatment). You can also find information regarding home hemo and PD. It's definitely a good place to start."
http://www.kidney.org/
NKF (National Kidney Foundation). ..Good information in regards to all things kidney-related including treatment in the area of Dialysis. The NKF site takes more of a patient advocate sort of role in regards to the information provided.
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Harold sounded pretty strong this morning. Using a temporary blood access point in the neck, the doctors did indeed give Harold some dialysis late yesterday - 1.5 hours - and they will do another 2 hours today. He will need to do hemodialysis frequently so they will perform surgery (under full anesthesia) to put in a permanent blood access pt. Here is some information about dialysis.
I found this patient forum this morning, which is kind of interesting:
Got the oncologist's name - Dr. Irwin. Lara got the name of the Highland patient advocate/s and I'll be talking to them once they call back. Other of Harold's friends know other people who might be able to help us get access to his oncologist. Harold has got some pretty extraordinarily loving and active and supportive friends.
That's all for this morning's work. Off to other things. Leave comments or messages if you like.
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