Dialysis & CKD Blog Report 3/16

By Bill Peckham

Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my last report on 3/2 TWO WEEKS AGO. This will be the most epic blog update to date ... a lot of posts were made in the last two weeks. As always if you have or know of a blog that should be on the list let me know. Comments in parentheses are my reactions or opinions. Feel free to nominate your own favorite post of the last two weeks ... I dare you to read them all.

• Dialysis from the sharp end of the needle has had 18 posts since the last blog report (my favorite is the Hats Off to Scribner post). Anna stopped by (Yay!); DSEN welcomed two new writers - Jim and David - and the Annual Dialysis Conference came to Seattle which generated a number of posts; Peter has been tracking down research on stunning and now myocardial ischemia in a call for more research (truly an urgent need)
• Kamal Shah's Blog has six posts since the last update - they are a good representation of his blog's topics: the blood tests arrived; iPhone is never the source of the problem; a vignette of India: a film; personal advocacy efforts expand; news on the provision of dialysis (if you haven't read Kamal's blog, check it out; if you have ... cheers)
• Kaply, Inc. is in with ten posts since we last checked and, ah um ... really just go read her blog, if you don't think it's funny, well fine but it is
• Toastiest comes in with eight posts - I really like the top flickr photos but the post asking for a donor is the important one to read; along with his strategy to get some sleep during his nocturnal incenter runs; for you March Madness sorts ... pool up
• NxStage Users has seven new posts by five people including usual suspect Harvey, Dan and Rich and now two new writers Willowtreewren and Radi4Music. Harvey is on the road; Dan reveals he is Dialysis Dan; Rich went to ADC; WTW shares experience gained; R4M is providing a well written training diary as she transitions directly from PD to HHD
• Hasten down the wire with five posts covering digital privacy, internet search and limits to growth; newish blotter feature with short post under various categories (I like the Blotter, I might steal it)
• Paddling on Dialysis for Kidney Health makes up for number of posts (2) by posting entire PPT presentation from the ADC (I think he was planning to sing at one point during his talk - it would be worth flying him in to speak to your group just for the singing!)
• The inner game of PKD has four posts focusing on PKD
• The Life of a 20-Something With Lupus five posts, gets some recognition for her writing; friends have a video; dealing with the doctor's never ending hoops
• The Adventures of Stacy Without An E two posts - gives out awards (you don't want to win one of these); posts a CKD musical
• Joyful Mother keeps us updated
• CHRONIC POSITIVITY February post Tx labs
• Jack's Kidney Adventure it's soccer season already (sure sign of spring)
• Transplant, Tantrums, & Tiaras gets settled into work, a new title and a friend gets the call
• On the Road to a Lupus Cure has six posts promoting ways to get involved with the lupus community and advocacy
• Really, I'm as Old as I Feel? six posts keeping up with life
• I Am. Are you? four posts: embedded videos, ambulatory plush creatures (shiver)
• Chronic Chick Talk video (drummer for Talking Heads did original version); chronic pain is real
• Lupus and Humor five posts including a vent
• Dialyse This heading south of the boarder - to Duluth
• Bud's Ramblings quick update
• Linda Gromko MD kidneycare five posts: tracking Steve's hospital stay (Sending good thoughts); fitting into the home
• Precious Bodily Fluids seven posts including on hypokalemia; irony; kayexalate; RCT; unmatch
  
• Renal Fellow Network has twelve posts as it continues on with a large group of new contributors
• Uremic Frost ten posts covering the latest nephrology news
• UKidney eight posts including DSEN reposts
• Renal tsar's blog eight posts covering NHS reports and news
• Pediatric Nephrology and the winner is ... Pediatric Nephrology with 31 posts
• Nephron Power 13 posts covering news of the kidney
• Kidney Doc Talk vitamin D for CKD
• Jean Louis Clemendot (Newest posts are in French at the bottom of the page, copy and paste into Google Translate) The adventure begins! (Bon Voyage!!)
• Diario de diálisis Crónicas (en Español)  Journal dialysis - Chronicles (Google translated from Spanish) World Kidney Day
• Kidney Notes four posts linking to news for the wired physician
• Lemonade and Kidneys four posts covering life with kids
• OH Positive: Rob needs a Kidney Transplant nice account of kidney walk with writer of other DSEN tracked blog
• The Daily Dialysis working to get listed
• ....And Bells on Her Toes seven post the last three share the heart wrenching experience of having a kid in the hospital (I can not begin to imagine)
• Kidney Dialysis News Baxter recall; new show on the Beeb
• Jenna Franks WKD
• PKD World reposts from the WWW
• Living with PKD YouTube has exercises
• My Wife Has Lupus looks at research; how do you keep track of all this?
• Michael W. Newman example letter when dealing with doctor office billing mistakes
• Life on Dialysis recounts efforts at forging connections; plans go awry; toughs it out
• I'm-u-no-logic a poem
• Berns on Nephrology has new video up
• Encompass Network Partners keeping your feet healthy
• NephrOnline Blogs scattered posts on MedPAC; donors could reap mortality benefits
• Renal BizBlog WKD; C-TEP; ER Tx
• Kidney Diet Tips WKD
• Nathan's PKD guest blogs
• History of Nephrology nice post on the first RCT to look at conventional dialysis

Comments

[Sidharth Sethi]

Thanks for the honour, Bill!

We have changed our url to
https://www.pediatric-nephrology.com

[DoodlesMom]

re: ...and bells on her toes link - just wanted to comment that it's my husband who went into the hospital (minor transplant rejection episode and fever), not my kid - although he seems like a kid sometimes ... still just as heartwrenching to me ...

[Bill Peckham]

@ DoodlesMom My reading comprehension dropped off pretty quickly. I think I should go from the end of the list to the beginning for the next report ... the next report that I should do within the 48 hours before it turns in to too much to comprehend accurately.

@ Sidharth - that's the URL I'm using, no?

[Sidharth Sethi]

It is now secured https

[Bill Peckham]

ah now I see. Change made.