Dialysis & CKD Blog Report 3/2

By Bill Peckham

Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my last report on 2/26. A lot of posting going on over the last few days. 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.

• Dialysis from the sharp end of the needle nothing since the last blog report
• Kamal Shah is blogging up a storm with follow ups to getting a properly drawn/stored blood sample to Italy; proves the utility of learning algebra; describes a charitable dialysis funding system; gets a call about a kid with his flavor of CKD
• Kaply, Inc. it's best if the docs just don't look sometimes; the US Postal Service FTW (nice); seriously paperwork, the paperwork is the worst (don't even get me started ... for the vast majority of us it would be fine if the IRS just sent a tax return already filled out and we'd just have to sign it but then people wouldn't hate paying taxes quite as much)
• Toastiest it looks fixed to me; it is hard to live with CKD, doing it alone is tougher still (true); Senator Kyle thinks people prefer to be out of work
• NxStage Users The Harvey Wells posts about his Florida 2010 winter concert tour
• Hasten down the wire adds up the cost of participating in Medicare; is liking himself some Kaply, and other end of the week post stubs
• Paddling on Dialysis for Kidney Health time to support Erich's Grand River Expedition paddlathon
• The inner game of PKD coaching can help you move beyond settling
• Jack's Kidney Adventure CKD is effecting people throughout his circle
• On the Road to a Lupus Cure Lupus Foundation of America marks kidney month with a Lupus Q&A
• I Am. Are you? interview available, organ mascots
• Lupus and Humor has a book review
• Dialyse This isn't orange, TV is coming back
• Bud's Ramblings snowing in March
• Renal Fellow Network looks at a Nature Genetics article
• UKidney FSGS is linked to steroids; exercise is good; drugs can be good or bad
• Renal tsar's blog kicks off a busy March with a flurry of posts
• Pediatric Nephrology is blogging regularly - KI PD case; conference in Spain; masked hypertension; links to surgical retrospective; kids benefit from intensified dialysis; embeds PPT; finds a kindred blogger, deadlines loom
• Nephron Power runs a clinical case; like Nephrology on demand; KI's what's your diagnosis
• pkdmom2five posts update
• Jean Louis Clemendot (Newest posts are in French at the bottom of the page, copy and paste into Google Translate) is counting the days to departure, bides time by living the good life in France
• Lemonade and Kidneys February provided a lot of opportunities to make lemonade
• Rob and Danielle's Kidney Blog things moving along, getting ready for a fund run - could be multiple DSEN tracked blog participation
• The Ballad of Billy The Kidney second part of the zip code matters in Oz series
• ....And Bells on Her Toes back at home; donor back to work; food preferences are genetic; eyes are mostly alright
• Life on Dialysis reading about it isn't the same as doing it; relates the Indian version of Goofus and Gallant; introducing new people to the pleasure of the trek; great vignette from trek in India
• Nephrosphere combination therapies are a challenge; arterial stiffness
• DailyHemo - Home Dialysis Advocates many new videos posted
• Kidney Community Emergency Response OneTouch SureStep Test Strip recall
• My Chronic Kidney Disease checks in with one year test results and update
• I'm-u-no-logic checks in with a daily routine recap

Comments

[Sidharth Sethi]

Thanks for the appreciation!

[Tejas Desai, MD]

Hi Bill.

Here at East Carolina University, we've created an evidence-based teaching website in Nephrology. It is targeted towards physicians, trainees, physician extenders, and patients. Take a look at our site and perhaps we can work together to spread the word on kidney disease treatments and preventions.

http://www.nephrologyondemand.org

Thanks.