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Forum: The Rovers Return
Mar 22nd 2018, 3:31 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

I have already booked a spell in Germany. More toi my taitht than Thpain.

No need to pay at the moment - we have EHIC, which can be used for Dialysis.


See an earlier post on a different...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Mar 22nd 2018, 7:49 am
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Our clinic is for humans Cats with kidney problems can seek treatment elsewhere.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Mar 20th 2018, 8:50 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

The days of Para Handy and "The Vital Spark" are gone. We are collected in a 7-seater minibus and conveyed onto the drive on ferry run by CalMac. After a 35-minute journey we arrive on the...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Mar 20th 2018, 4:54 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

No pal - just a fellow-traveller on the troubled road !
Forum: The Rovers Return
Mar 18th 2018, 6:43 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Re-reading some of the information about cost, A session costs a non-NHS patient just under £200 pounds. I get 3 sessions a week. I am glad that I did not retire to live with family in Central Africa...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Mar 18th 2018, 2:47 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

One of my fellow-patients from the island died on Friday. He had refused to travel to the mainland because he felt too ill. Missing three sessions had fatal consequences.


We were 6. We are now...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jul 20th 2017, 5:52 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Global Dialysis - Costs of dialysis in the UK (http://www.globaldialysis.com/Dialysis-information-sep/costs-of-dialysis.html)

thank God for socialised medicine. It is currently under attack in the...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jul 20th 2017, 7:54 am
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

It is going well and I feel better for it. I am still trying to get used to the idea that I have to do it until they put me in a box !
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jul 18th 2017, 5:46 am
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Global Dialysis - Costs of dialysis in the UK (http://www.globaldialysis.com/Dialysis-information-sep/costs-of-dialysis.html)

is a breakdown of costs to the NHS. Cost to me at point of delivery is...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Oct 14th 2016, 3:14 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Never been near Van Diemens Land ! Law-abiding I am ! I restricted my travels to the 3 continents of Africa, Asia and Europe.


Peritoneal Dialysisi (PD) seems a right lot of faffing about. I...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Sep 16th 2016, 12:38 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Just practising with the diet - though I have started on the fluid restriction. This from a man who would happily quaff 8 pints of an evening ! Ah but then I saw the light some years ago and "put the...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Sep 14th 2016, 10:16 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

I am already practising on the fluid restriction - 1 or 1 and a half litres a day. Diet restrictions too - including ones that seem daft. No coffee no chocolate.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Sep 13th 2016, 10:55 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Never in the White Commonwealth. I was always in more exotic locales.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Sep 12th 2016, 1:58 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Never been in Australia - or Canada. Middle East. Africa. Europe. That was enough for me. Then after many years an exile I gave up and returned to my homeland
Forum: The Rovers Return
Sep 1st 2016, 10:24 am
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

IF I am going to be hooked up to a machine that siphons off my blood, filters it and returns it into my body, I think I would be happier doing it under close medical supervision. I will get it done...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 29th 2016, 12:23 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Before I get hooked up and have restrictions on travels I am away to that Monument at Glenfinnan. Whether or not I swear Allegiance to Charles Edward Stuart is as yet undecided.

...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2016, 6:45 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Unless you go for a transplant, dialysis will be for the rest of your life. Two types - peritoneal, where you use a bag to remove and replace fluid in the abdomen. Other method is hemodialysis, where...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 28th 2016, 5:36 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Re: Kidney Dialysis

Other medical "issues" make it unlikely that I will get a transplant. Maybe if I were an alcoholic ex-footballer instead of a reformed alcoholic and ex-teacher !
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 27th 2016, 6:26 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 7,760
Posted By scot47

Cool Kidney Dialysis

The Kidney Specialist has advised me that Dialysis is the best solution for my kidney problems. I was offered the choice between peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis. I have opted for the second and...
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