Mom / Dialysis

[Janet]

We won't have any more training to do dialysis until next Friday, then it will just be for an hour or two as a refresher. The machine and all the supplies will be delivered to Mom's house next week. On Friday night she will start evening dialysis for the first time at home. I will be staying with her at night (that weekend, maybe longer) to make sure she can hook up of an evening and unhook of a morning by herself. I think she'll be able to do it fine, but we're both a little nervous.

Here is a picture of her dialysis machine and then one of Mom and her training nurse Ruth.

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If you look closely at Mom's waist, you'll be able to see the port sticking out of her shorts that's she'll hook up to.