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Rayne58 -> RE: Living with a Dom who has a chronic illness/disability (6/20/2007 3:19:23 AM)
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Update [:)]
We have just started training so we can do home haemodialysis. Master already cannulates Himself so it really is just a matter of learning to use the different machine.
I already know how to set up the machines at our hospital, and these machines are basically the same but they seem much simpler to use. Master hasn't set up a machine at all yet - the nurses said it wasn't worth Him learning one machine only to have to learn another further down the track. So He will be going to practice tomorrow (no dialysis tho) while I go to the gym [:D]
It will mean early starts 3 days a week (the centre is at least half an hour's drive away and traffic can be diabolical in Sydney!). He was dialysed today and He was able to tolerate higher blood flow and the needles seemed much easier to insert.....no pain in His arm at all during the procedure and He seems to have tolerated it much better than usual - long may it last [:)]
This will last about a month/6 weeks depending on how fast we learn - they tend to take their time to make sure we know what we are doing before they let us loose at home. We will need to get temporary plumbing put in, clean out the spare room for storage of medical supplies and hopefully we will be happily dialysing at home by the end of August [:D]
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