So, it continued.
Yes, I am back to the hospital.
My health care team was very worried that my right leg was red and swollen. And ordered me to the hospital emergency room that afternoon. Except, when I stood up to leave, I immediately fell down, sitting on the floor. No, I couldn’t get up. It seems that my blood pressure was 60/30. I was feeling fine, despite that.
So, I took another hiatus.
Let’s get real. It wasn’t that I “took” a hiatus. It’s that my body took the hiatus and I was dragged long for the ride.
Continue reading Brain Fog. Muscles are Jelly.
As I suspected, the altercation between Buckeye Transplant Services and UNOS is not going to be settled easily.
Continue reading Transplant Battle for Control Continues
It gives me a great feeling when nephrologists and other medical professionals are recognizing that we are not properly educating our kidney failure (ESRD- those with End Stage Renal Disease) patients about all the options they may have.
Continue reading Increase the Number of Kidney Transplants
Dialysis procedures have been optimized over the years. And, these procedures were greatly benefited when blood pumps became the norm (as opposed to letting our hearts pump the blood through the dialyzer), high flux dialyzers (membrane devices that were extremely adept at letting metabolic toxins be removed from blood), etc.
Continue reading Dialysis with Low Flows
So, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed, it had a Medicaid component. It was left to the states to add that component as a benefit to their residents; if chosen, it would alter the way Medicaid reimbursement worked in that state.
Continue reading Medicaid Expansion
I am hoping most of you voters (in California) have been reading the editorials and recommendations in all the papers, as well as local TV news, to reject Proposition 29.
Continue reading The Vote on Proposition 29 is Tuesday
I have been enjoying the postseason baseball experience (where the Phillies are managing to be the giant killers for both leagues). Yeah, except for last night- a night of ignominy…
Continue reading Quinquagenary This Past Sunday
Comes this November, and dialysis in the state of California may be changed forever.
Continue reading Really? Every two years?
So, I am not sure if you recall our discussion of one of the (many new) screwups SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) effected recently. I am talking about its decision in Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc.
Continue reading Reversing a bad SCOTUS decision