Five Things I’ve Learned So Far in Dialysis

Being on kidney dialysis isn’t the only thing I’ve learned about my “new normal.” It’s learning how to talk again.

Five things I have learned so far in dialysis.

“Off Center”

Have you ever felt “off center” once you start a form of dialysis, clean-living diet, or any type of body purge?

Needles Are Easy…Life’s a Challenge

This is part 1 of 2 of what we call “longreads”, or stories that are longer than 1,000 words.  On a warm sunny Sunday in late May, my grandfather and I opened up the shed in his backyard. Back in early December, Grandpa said that he had some boxes of stuff that belonged to my mom,…

Update from “Reset”

I wanted to give you an update on a blog I wrote on September 26th, titled “Reset”, where I wrote about my recent diagnosis of proliferative (advanced stage) diabetic retinopathy, a condition that is caused by damage to blood vessels of the retina due to long-term and/or poor control of Type 1 or Type 2…

The Second Eighteen Years

This past Saturday, I celebrated an anniversary.  It wasn’t the wedding variety, a breakup, or the time I taught myself how to catch a baseball with my right hand, so that I wouldn’t have to use my left hand to catch the ball, slip my left hand out of the glove, and throw it. Saturday marked the 18th…