Dialysis & CKD Blog Report 7/5

By Miriam Lippel Blum

Bill's surgery is today.  There will be Twitter updates regarding his status at the bottom of the left hand column.  We wish him well and hope he is up and around soon.  Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my update on 7/3.   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 on his medical situation and will be Twittering further updates. (We're rooting for you, Bill!)
• Kamal Shah's Blog Kamal wins the "Most Thoughtful Posts which also make the reader think award" from a fellow blogger (We would agree with that. Congratulations, Kamal!); protests a statue being erected by a politician to honor herself when the money would be better spent aiding her people.
• Kaply, Inc. Tracy's glasses are broken and she found out the state may take away her Medicaid and food stamps; bureaucratic hassles await her on Monday, she takes some Ativan to take the edge off; is very scared about how dependent on others she will be post-surgery even though she has friends who care and want to help, and is cleaning up her apartment in preparation.
• Toastiest took his cat to the vet and after two days in hospital is doing much better; has photos of the most handsome dog in the world.
• Hasten down the wire critiques corporate media that give the message - Don't risk anything because you’re almost certain to fail - thereby, destroying personal initiative, and the creative endeavors that might result.  People are trapped in stifling jobs merely to keep health insurance.(Right on the money.  That's why we need national health care.)
• The Life of a 20-Something With Lupus had to deal with an unpleasant person at the lab who gave her a hard time for no good reason.(I hate it when medical people make one's life even more difficult and treat one with disrespect.); felt nauseated all day, is very stressed out, and sees a woman do something weird with broccoli at the grocery store.
• Becky Perry reviews Every Man's Bible; hasn't been feeling very well since she went on the PD cycler so she is going back to manual exchanges;  review of Stretch 4 Life an exercise manual and DVD by Lori Walter.
• Life on dialysis ... and now life after my transplant! had fun on her solo train ride, the donor event she attended was very emotional especially the ceremony of recognition of donor families.  Many stories  moved her to tears.
• Chronic Chick Talk needs a new bed, her current one causes pain; inspirational quotes from Helen Keller (These are really great!); loves watching the hummingbirds feed from the glass feeder she has, especially when she is not feeling so well.
•  Bud's Ramblings Bud explains the history of Independence Day; enjoyed dinner and the fireworks at his daughter's home, is concerned with the pain she has in her ribcage.
• Disability Prejudice And Civil Rights Watch describes some of the flashbacks from her traumas in the hospital.
• Renal Fellow Network provides links to two very interesting web sites for those involved in the study of mouse as a model organism for the study of kidney disease and kidney development; discusses the high mortality rate of US patients compared to other developed countries.(Shameful, isn't it?); using an equation he describes, one can make a compelling case that there is a shortage of nephrologists in the U.S. 
• Uremic Frost a music video parody of Soulja Boy called "Pass a Kidney Stone"; and another video from RSN called "Seymour Jones and the Temple of Chronic Kidney Disease,"
• Neophron's Senescence took the day off and watched Wimbledon.
• Mid-life ramblings counts her blessings while watching her daughter sleep.
• The Ballad of Billy The Kidney thinks about the importance of humor in recovery of renal patients and tells a really bald joke (Oops, I meant bad.); writes about Steve Jobs, liver transplant recipient and CEO of Apple, Inc., and gives links to information about him.
• The inner game of PKD writes about the impact of self-perception on a PKD patient.
• DailyHemo - Home Dialysis Advocates A whole crop of funny video parodies: Pass A Kidney Stone (Soulja Boy parody); Seymour Jones and the Temple of Chronic Kidney Disease; Like A Kidney Stone; Why Can't I Pee.

Comments

[jack nowicki]

Sending LIGHT and best wishes for a perfect surgery and painless recovery, Bill. Namaste. Jack