This life requires a lot of commitment.  The hardest part in my mind is the mental toll it has on you.  Imagine having all of the responsibilities and burdens you have, but also knowing you have to thread the needle with work to survive.  At times you almost feel like a slave.  There are days where I either wake up feeling drained or get to work and I just don’t have 8 hours of work

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Life on peritoneal dialysis means a major time commitment. As you can see in the image, in a good night, it will take about 9 hours.  But it often takes 9 1/2 or 10 hours or more and it has to happen seven days a week.  It’s hard to tell the reason, but it means you don’t have the same free time normal people have.  You can’t just go hang out late with friends without

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Hi.  This is the transition of my personal website from a technology blog to the story of my life journey with kidney disease.  This handsome guy to the left is me back in November 2024.  By that time I had been on Peritoneal dialysis for about 5 months.  I’ll tell my story again here in future posts.  But you can read more on the Facebook page I started to spread the word at https://www.facebook.com/KidneyDrive25/ If

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