Newbie questions alert
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 10:35 pm
I joined cos my dad is getting set to start dialysis. He's diabetic and alread lost a lot of his sight, and is not very mobile for other reasons.
I went with him to see the specialist renal nurse, this week. I think her main job was to point out the downsides of committing to dialysis. Considering he hardly does anything much except mainly sit in his chair / use his laptop and sleep atm, he doesn't see the time spent on the unit as a problem. Can he expect to see some actual improvement in his quality of life when this starts? His water retention and tiredness are pretty bad .. tho the nurse offered him some more tips on these issues.
He also has frequent diahrea (sp) is that lik to be connected to his kidney failure?
Anyone else in here in his age group? He's 84. Nurse told us she has a patient of 97!
I went with him to see the specialist renal nurse, this week. I think her main job was to point out the downsides of committing to dialysis. Considering he hardly does anything much except mainly sit in his chair / use his laptop and sleep atm, he doesn't see the time spent on the unit as a problem. Can he expect to see some actual improvement in his quality of life when this starts? His water retention and tiredness are pretty bad .. tho the nurse offered him some more tips on these issues.
He also has frequent diahrea (sp) is that lik to be connected to his kidney failure?
Anyone else in here in his age group? He's 84. Nurse told us she has a patient of 97!