The American people saw unforgettably how federal, state, and local governments failed the people of New Orleans just three weeks ago. What the American people don't realize is how they've all been short-changed for the past three years. Minorities are much more affected by kidney failure than whites. There's a dialysis boom on Indian reservations.
Quotes about dialysis (16 Quotes)
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
I suspect that a week out (of not getting treatment after the hurricane), the preponderance of those patients had died. It's going to take months, if not years, to actually go back and find what proportion of the dead were actually dialysis patients.
This is the best Christmas present I could ever have received. Now it's just a matter of getting him back and hoping there is enough kidney function left to salvage so that he doesn't end up back on dialysis.
We've tried desperately to rescue 250 people trapped in a Salvation Army facility. They've been trapped in there since the flood came in. Many are on dialysis machines.
The purpose of the fund is for the development and support of renal dialysis programs that benefit the overall quality of health care at HYMC. The Howard Young Foundation dispersed more than 120,000 from its Dialysis Fund in order to purchase new dialysis machines for the department at Howard Young Medical Center. Also, the Auxiliary of Howard Young Medical Center recently contributed 26,000 toward the purchase of 2 additional new machines, however, with the expansion, more dialysis machines will be needed and the Foundation Dialysis Fund will support this vital program.
Out of adversity comes progress. The water will be so clean it could be used for kidney dialysis.
How would these people get from their nursing home to the dialysis facilities without an ambulance provided
The dialysis lets the patient live a close to normal life so they can be a grandparent or go to work.
Five years ago, we studied the issue of dialysis to see what Floyd Valley Hospital could do to help. Since I've been here, we had studied the issue twice before and found wasn't feasible for us. The last time we studied it, we found it wasn't feasible unless we were able to knock down some of the costs so we could better subsidize the losses we could expect.
I don't know if you ever played with model (flying) airplanes. They're always tethered to a string. I felt I would be tethered to the 65 feet of wire that comes out of a dialysis machine.
Our biggest need is health care, ... We still don't have a dialysis center or an elder retirement center.
For nearly 20 years, we have documented the huge impact that diabetes has on the health care system, from kidney failure to dialysis and so on,
When she told me that 75 percent of your body functions can fail, that scared the -- out of me. You could be sitting at home thinking you're fine and you could be getting sicker by the minute. Unfortunately, the one thing about kidneys is you don't know until a week before dialysis that you need dialysis.
Randal had a stable night. We performed dialysis to continue to filter his blood. His heart gained in strength.
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.