Category Archives: Patient-Centered Care

Dialysis and Suriving Washington, DC

Posted on April 27, 2016 by DevonTexas

April 26, 2016: I survived! I’m at Reagan National Airport awaiting my flight home. There’s some question about the landing part as there are severe thunderstorms expected over Dallas tonight. We’ll see. I just want to get home. We got … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and Patient Responsibilies

Posted on May 18, 2015 by DevonTexas

Each month a new educational topic is available for Texas ESRD patients. May’s topic is “Learn About Patient’s Responsibilities“. These materials can be located on the Network 14 website by CLICKING HERE.  It is also available in Spanish by CLICKING … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and Blog Talk Radio

Posted on April 28, 2015 by DevonTexas

Here are some interesting spoken blogs on BlogTalk Radio from Dialysis Advocates… This particular episode deals with How to Ask For What You Want as a dialysis patient.  John Rider, the guest speaker, has decades of experience in this matter. … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and Acceptance

Posted on August 30, 2014 by DevonTexas

I Originally published this in October, 2012 but it’s an important issue and I wanted to bring it up again… I recently read some  posts on the Davita Forums about people’s experience getting started on dialysis and how they seriously … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and Rationing

Posted on August 29, 2014 by DevonTexas

I originally published this post in January, 2013 but I had occasion to review it recently and decided to re-publish it.   There’s a great article in the Seattle Times that covers the history of dialysis.  The title is: “The … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and Disagreement

Posted on August 4, 2014 by DevonTexas

Repost from a while back but still relevant. I got the following comment the other day in response to my blog posting “Dialysis and Opening Day”.  I figured I’d share it with you because, although it’s rather bitter, it makes … Continue reading →

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Something Different Than Just Dialysis

Posted on May 10, 2014 by DevonTexas

I found this article, titled “Making a Diagnosis is Less Important than Asking these 2 Questions” by Dr. Frank Lipman and wanted to pass it along.  He makes the point that “Even though you may have been given a diagnosis, always … Continue reading →

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Dialysis First Stick – More

Posted on March 7, 2014 by DevonTexas

Recently a comment was left in the post about Dialysis and The First Stick where I retell my experience when starting dialysis.  The reader, TuTu, had a very similar experience and was kind enough to share it.  I’d like to repeat it … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and Death (Part 4)

Posted on October 20, 2013 by DevonTexas

my friend is on dialysis and is dying. how do I talk to him? Above is a “search term” which showed up on my blog account.  In other words, that is what someone entered into a search engine like “Google” … Continue reading →

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Dialysis and the Dream Comes True – DialySpa

Posted on October 6, 2013 by DevonTexas

Updated 12/4/13:   The Mayo Clinic announced a new center that sounds like it’s in the same direction as Dialyspa.  I’ve contacted them for more information.  CLICK HERE to read their announcement. A few months back, I was in Houston, … Continue reading →

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