By Miriam Lippel Blum
Happy Memorial Day! We salute all those who have fought for us. Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my update on 5/22. If you have or know of a blog that should be on the list let Bill know. Comments in parentheses are my reactions or opinions.
- Dialysis from the sharp end of the needle Bill reports that changes in Medicare rules spell bad news for daily home HD dialyzors.(I think the changes are terrible.)
- Kamal Shah's Blog Kamal writes about the problems kidney disease can cause in a marriage.
- Kaply, Inc. Tracy has a busy weekend, enjoyed friends, the outdoors, and won a T-shirt.
- Drinking my way through Trader Joe's Wine celebrates Memorial Day with gardening, making home-made ginger beer, enjoying a nice Spanish wine with a lunch menu that includes roasted wings in honey BBQ sauce; she has a great NY night with a play, a fine dinner, good wine, and chocolate mousse cake. She adds a little ice tea to her ginger beer to cut the bite and has a delicious picnic menu planned. (We're all coming over for lunch with you...and Happy Birthday, Anna!)
- Toastiest has a lovely song posted "Where Do You Start?" by Alan Bergman.
- Birdman has a clotted fistula. (Sorry to hear that. We hope the surgeon can clear it out.)
- Nitey Nite- a nocturnal dialysis blog Michelle is into reading vampire novels while on nocturnal dialysis and wants a sexy vampire who will suck toxins out of her with one bite while making love. (I don't think the FDA would approve without many clinical trials.) Staff problems continue and her fistula can't handle buttonholes.
- PKD & Dialysis ... Where I Tell It Like It Is has swelling in an arm and ankle, needs an ultrasound and is worried.
- Really, I'm as Old as I Feel? likes Skype but feels it's ruining TV interview shows.
- Dialysis Postings explains anemia in CKD.
- Chronic Chick Talk salutes all the veterans, wishes everyone a Happy Memorial Day and posts music video "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips.
- Bud's Ramblings Bud and his wife celebrate their 45th anniversary by planting a beautiful garden together. (Congratulations! May you have many more years and gardens together.)
- Renal Fellow Network Betel nut chewing can also cause hypercalcemia, metabolic alkalosis, and acute renal failure similar to Milk-Alkali syndrome (I didn't know what betel nut chewing was either, go Google it, or check out this blog.); Is a Minnesota Vikings fan and explains how pro football players mask steroid use by taking diuretics; a video of a daredevil motorcyclist who has a kidney "explode" on impact during a stunt; the importance of residual renal function.
- Uremic Frost announces a Kidney Walk to be held on 5/31 at Hofstra University at 9:30 am; a study showing the concomitant use of gradient ultrafiltration and sodium dialysate helps patients with intradialytic hypotension; a study shows that CKD may progress more slowly in women; another study showing that obesity is a strong risk factor for decline in kidney function after initiation of dialysis therapy.
- Free range fish sticks Sheila is still in the hospital, no diagnosis for the severe headaches despite many tests, Don would do anything to take her pain away. (Our hearts go out to you and you are in our prayers.)
- Jenna Franks posts recommendations about how to find a living donor.
- The Ballad of Billy The Kidney posts a fun public service announcement from Australia for Kidney Health Week, and a Natalie Cole music video in honor of her transplant this week, also reports that Natalie's sister just died. (Our hearts go out to Natalie at this loss.)
- As The Pump Turns writes about the first person to die under Washington State's Death with Dignity Act.
- DailyHemo - Home Dialysis Advocates New videos: Josh Rieke's Apartment of Science explains how a dialyzer works (Very funny video - Bill Nye the Science Guy has competition now.); a news story on home hemo using the NxStage System One; an NKF public service announcement about CKD risk factors; and a video on the histoof the AV fistula.
- The Renal UnitCurrent renal tweets, news, and blogs
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