Best Dialysis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“I encourage readers recovering from a kidney transplant to heed the advice of their medical practitioners.”

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Book:Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“I am medically trained in kidney dialysis.”

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Book:Pandemic Supplements

Source: Pandemic Supplements

“A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder.”

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Author:Bob Northam

“It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.”

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Author:Jonah Lomu

“A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.”

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Author:Sheri Fink

“I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.”

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Author:Peter Wright

“There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.”

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Author:John Roberts

“I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.”

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Author:Jessica Alba

“I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion

“I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.”

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Author:Art Buchwald

“I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.”

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Author:Art Buchwald

“Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.”

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Author:Jonah Lomu

“Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.”

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Author:John Perez

“We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.”

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Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

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