The Voices of Kidney Disease

By Bill Peckham

The New York Times has a multimedia health feature that presents first person accounts of living with an illness; today they're featuring DSEN blogger Anna, one of six stories of people living with chronic kidney disease:

A lifetime of dialysis or an invasive kidney transplant - - treatment for end-stage renal disease is a life-changing process. Six men and women speak about the challenges, side-effects and surprising rewards of living with kidney disease.

It's the stories of two people with a kidney transplant, two people on conventional incenter hemodialysis, one using peritoneal dialsyis and one person using NxStage at home, however, both transplant recipients were using the NxStage while they waited for a kidney. Each audio segment is 2 or 3 minutes; the quality is as high as you'd expect from the New York Times. Nice job Anna!

Comments

[Zach]

Congrats to Anna for getting the story out to the world!

[Peter Laird, MD]

Great article from the NYT featuring DSEN's Anna. For those that don't have the option of renal transplant, optimal dialysis should be available to all. It is one of the few medical options that actually saves money compared to usual American dialysis care. Hopefully, more will become aware of this simple knowledge.

[Miriam Lippel Blum]

Thank you, Anna, for sharing your story and perspective. It was nice, also, to now have a face to associate with your great writing.

[Mike]

Nice job, Anna. A transplant is the best option.

[richard]

Well done Anna...these are the kind of hands on perspectives that are needed to counteract the foolishness that we encountered months ago on U-Tube ... ditto Miriam... and I agree Peter and Zach

[Karol]

It was nice to see you Anna, since the transplant - you look and sound great! Thanks for sharing your story!

[Angie]

Thanks for sharing your story Anna!