Coming back to the dialysis, Let me talk through the process... So when the kidney becomes dysfunctional, the tasks of kidney are left pending, hence, a thing called cretanine rises in the body as it is not removed(blame the sleeping kidney neurons). In the process of dialysis(discovered by Dr. Willem Kolff ) these steps are done Blood taken out from the body Cleaned from cretanine + sodium + potassium +urea etc Blood returned to the body So these steps are done for the whole blood in the body. For steps 1 and 3, the first incision was made on my body at the neck(called Line). Later after my discharge from the hospital A new incision was made on my right chest(called Catheter). Roughly 3 months later, I was operated again to undergo a surgery for Fistula . The Line went in I guess it was done on me when I had no sense of my surroundings. This is how it is placed. The Catheter comes in too. A few days into the Line, the docs sai...
My journey to fight my 95% failed kidneys.. (wip)