My medical situation is far more serious than I thought. I signed a document today that said it’s basically my body my choice to do dialysis but if I stop I will be choosing a guaranteed and rapid death. Still hasn’t sunk in fully that if left untreated I was likely weeks from death. Really don’t know how to mentally…
My new life is learning how to cook without a kitchen (until I find an apartment and then I’ll have an actual kitchen). I just purchased a ton of electric cooking machines like a rice cooker, skillet, air fryer, toaster, indoor grill, egg bite maker, kettle, etc. This is the only way I’ll have a shot at fighting #kidneyfailure until…
This was my most difficult dialysis session yet. Right at the last 12 minutes of my 4 hour session, my legs started cramping up. They warned me this was a possibility given the amount of fluid they were trying to pull out of my body today (5 liters). Truly a bizarre experience. It felt like I had just run a…
They’re aiming to take 5kg of fluid out of my body today since I was able to handle 3g on Monday. That’s 11 pounds. Insane!
Check out my first “cooking” episode premiering at 6p EST as I learn to cook renal diet recipes. I put “cooking” in quotes because this hardly passes as cooking. LOL.
So after 1 week+ on dialysis I’ve noticed a few changes to my body already. The first is that I look healthier and younger. My body wasn’t removing toxins properly which was aging me and giving me a blotchy, pale complexion. I’m also sleeping a lot less. The last 10 weeks I was sleeping 9-10 hours a night + 2-4…
Damn. “Without life-sustaining dialysis or a kidney transplant, once a person with kidney disease reaches stage 5 (end stage renal disease or ESRD), toxins build up in the body and death usually comes within a few weeks.”
Great conversation with LisaNeedsAKidney from TikTok about living with #kidneyfailure and #hemodialysis
If you’d like to relive my entire kidney failure journey starting at the end of March, I made a compilation of all my TikTok videos starting with the gout attack. I think it’s pretty interesting watching me try to figure out what’s going on with my foot, everything that happened at the hospital all the way to dialysis and discharge….
Post-dialysis glow. Dropped 6.6 pounds in 1 session. Doctor said my body is responding exceptionally well to dialysis. Time for a healthy meal and then my first chest day in 3 weeks. Juicy chest pump FTW!