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In October, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will add another feature to its growing list. This will be the requirement that all Americans should be covered by insurance. Now, if you’re a dialysis patient, you are eligible for Medicare. If you have private insurance through your employer, you don’t need to go on Medicare until you’ve been on dialysis for 30 months. (After 30 months, private insurance converts to Medicare.) After 30 months, you must convert to Medicare. But if you don’t have insurance, you can get on Medicare immediately upon your diagnosis of ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease). You need to contact Medicare for that.
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I am a person with ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) which means my kidneys don't work. Forty or so years ago that would have been a death sentence but today there is Dialysis which means I could be hooked up to a machine that would clean my blood as the kidneys should. Three days a week, I went to a dialysis center and had too very large needles stuck in my arm to remove and replace my blood as it passed through a process where it was cleaned and the fluid was removed, a process taking a little over four hours each time.
In November 2017, I received a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. My life went into overdrive. With a "new" functioning kidney, I no longer had to go to a dialysis center and my days were not open to be lived rather than recovering from dialysis which meant dialyzing for three days and resting for 4 days a week. I work full-time and often 50 hours per week. It is something I never imagined. I highly recommend it! HeeHee
I want to advance knowledge about dialysis and transplant so that others can learn from my experience and mistakes. We shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, eh? There is so much to be learned and experienced about our predicament. There are vast resources available to support us and enrich our lives but many patients don't know about them. There are also many issues that we have to deal with whether we want to or not. So I blog about them in www.DevonTexas.com
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I now have my fistula. I have read and researched about loss of kidney function, about diet and fluids, but have no idea how to relate all this to the way I am feeling. My questions have been answered, but what about me? Nobody can really help me! I have to help myself! But I don’t know how
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In October, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will add another feature to its growing list. This will be the requirement that all Americans should be covered by insurance. Now, if you’re a dialysis patient, you are eligible for Medicare. If you have private insurance through your employer, you don’t need to go on Medicare until you’ve been on dialysis for 30 months. (After 30 months, private insurance converts to Medicare.) After 30 months, you must convert to Medicare. But if you don’t have insurance, you can get on Medicare immediately upon your diagnosis of ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease). You need to contact Medicare for that.
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Great article, sharing on Kidney Stories!
I now have my fistula. I have read and researched about loss of kidney function, about diet and fluids, but have no idea how to relate all this to the way I am feeling. My questions have been answered, but what about me? Nobody can really help me! I have to help myself! But I don’t know how
I sent you an email about some ideas I have and suggestions for you. Thanks for sharing. You are probably overwhelmed and that’s not unusual.
thank you for answering my email. I am very overwhelmed. I don’t know how I can possibly manage it all.
It’s overwhelming but I believe you can get through it. Dialysis is not as bad or as much as we expect it to be. Read my blog post about “Dialysis and the Initial Shock”. Trust me, I’ve been there! I blogged about it! https://devontexas.com/2012/07/15/dialysis-and-the-initial-shock/ Also, check out the New Patient Button if you haven’t already or click here for that posting. https://devontexas.com/2012/07/15/dialysis-and-the-initial-shock/