The very last day of school is August 14th. Then…3 glorious, well deserved and well needed weeks of rest. I have to force myself out of bed these past few days. I’m hoping my hemoglobin ...
Today was clinic appointment day at the hospital. I headed downtown by bus and subway with my million pound backpack. I forgot how heavy textbooks are. I also admit that I’m pretty spoiled. For the ...
Today was orientation day for school. On any other day, considering the atmosphere of this orientation, I’d have met tons of new people. Unfortunately, a lack of voice is not the best thing when you’re ...
Today was my second night doing dialysis at home. Everything went pretty smoothly…no unsightly alarms today. I made sure I was well prepared with my prefilled saline syringes and my recirculator and such. I guess ...
Ugh, today had to have been my worst day at dialysis. It all started when I was cannulating myself. The needles went in fine and I was just connecting myself. I connected the first tube ...
As with many other people with Lupus, my hemoglobin has always been a problem. Lupus with chronic kidney failure doesn’t help either. While anemia has always been present in my earlier Lupus days, it has ...