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To: Egon

Yea, peritoneal is a lot better, spend twice as long hooked up to a bag and then walk around with a tube sticking out of your stomach.


16 posted on 02/21/2005 11:33:29 AM PST by Shellback Chuck (Go Navy!)
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To: Shellback Chuck
Yea, peritoneal is a lot better, spend twice as long hooked up to a bag and then walk around with a tube sticking out of your stomach.

My grandfather is currently on it. Yes, he does have a port, not a tube sticking out of his gut. His dyalisis happens at night, when he's sleeping.

I suppose you could dismiss it as a glass-half-empty solution. Without it, though, my Grandpa would have lost his glass a couple of years ago. The improvement in his general health since he switched over from hemo- to peritoneal-dialysis has been remarkable.

19 posted on 02/21/2005 11:41:43 AM PST by Egon (Government is a guard-dog to be fed, not a cow to be milked.)
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