I’ve done 2 kinds, the one you hear about (hemo) and the slightly better peritoneal kind. DeWalt with it for a year and a half (which is nothing compared to what a lot of people have to do).
It wasn’t the most painful thing in these comments, but it is one of the most soul-draining things I can imagine. In the same kind of way that chemo probably is. But that’s even more miserable.
And a lot of the treatments surrounding it are where the real pain was (I could go on a whole big comment/post about the pain, discomfort, suffering, other things that just sucked that I’ve had to deal with since 2020, both directly and indirectly related to this-it’s a pretty wild trip) but that’s not the question here.
The single worst part overall was the dialysis, because it hit the sweet (/s) spot between how uncomfortable it was, how much constant attention to it I was required to deal with, and how long it lasted.
I mean the longest thing I’ve dealt with is diabetes, but the dialysis beats that by far.
Dialysis.
I’ve done 2 kinds, the one you hear about (hemo) and the slightly better peritoneal kind. DeWalt with it for a year and a half (which is nothing compared to what a lot of people have to do).
It wasn’t the most painful thing in these comments, but it is one of the most soul-draining things I can imagine. In the same kind of way that chemo probably is. But that’s even more miserable.
And a lot of the treatments surrounding it are where the real pain was (I could go on a whole big comment/post about the pain, discomfort, suffering, other things that just sucked that I’ve had to deal with since 2020, both directly and indirectly related to this-it’s a pretty wild trip) but that’s not the question here.
The single worst part overall was the dialysis, because it hit the sweet (/s) spot between how uncomfortable it was, how much constant attention to it I was required to deal with, and how long it lasted.
I mean the longest thing I’ve dealt with is diabetes, but the dialysis beats that by far.