dialysis hacks .

Taped Up

As my new About page confirms, I started Haemodialysis in Oct 2017 and in June 2018 I started Home Haemodialysis. One of the biggest differences between the unit and being at home is being...

Pregnancy & Dialysis

I was asked to write an article on my experience being pregnant while on dialysis. I thought it would be a great idea to give some insight on my journey. I must say that...

Surviving HD Clinic

It’s not secret that I hate going to dialysis clinic three times a week for four hours at a time. However I do have a few tips for surviving it. Firstly, try and get...

Scarring

I scar something awful. Not sure why but I’ve just never been very good at scarring. It takes a long time to heal and it’s very red for ages. It never really goes white...

Keeping in touch!

As you can tell from the main left sidebar – I have a few social media handles for you to keep up to date! There is instagram for some dialysis pictures from my days!...

Permacath

For those who do not know, a permacath is a tube that is used to gain access to the blood for haemodialysis. I do not mine admitting that I was petrified by having this...

Nephrology Blogs

I was really pleased last week to receive an email informing me that dialysishacks had been selected by a panel to feature on the “Top 75 Nephrology Blogs”.  The list can be found here.  I...

Pregnancy

As a bloke I don’t have any tips on dialysis and pregnancy but two of my followers on Instagram had a really amazing conversation about it, and with their permission I past it here...

Importance of Pooing!!

I know that we’ve discussed this before but after the two weeks I’ve just had I wanted to push it again. It’s simple – if you are on PD and have a catheter make...

Thing Going Wrong 

Things can (and will) go wrong. In my first 3 months on dialysis I; Touched the end of my tube – contaminating it, Forgot to put liquid into the exchange tubes and opened my...