Snow: renal failure's arch nemesis. Though probably not in Norway, where they can actually handle snowfall. Today's Times reports on how the country is desperately dealing with the "situation" now that we have...ooh, a good two or three inches of snow on the ground; dialysis patients fall into the same category as those undergoing radiotherapy in terms of the need for treatment. Last year, I trekked across the icy wilderness of North London on foot with only my Uggs, my ipod and a Tracker for salvation (much like Shackleton, I would imagine) to get to the hospital. Only to find the Northern Line was running.
I am fortunate in that I can just about miss one session. For the last two years I have been on dialysis, I have missed four sessions: once to meet a "friend" who was in town literally for that afternoon; once for my grandfather's funeral; once because I couldn't be bothered (and possibly because there was an episode of Gilmore Girls I wanted to watch on E4+1) and once when I had an observed lesson at school (I was teaching up until very recently). So four out of God-knows-how-many doesn't seem too bad. More than 1 though and I'd be cooked. I read that somewhere that without dialysis, the patient would survive for roughly another 2 weeks. I wonder what Norway's renal provisions are like...
Still, my housemate stacked it at Wandsworth Road station this morning in front of a gaggle of fellow commuters, so comparatively I'm doing pretty well.
I am fortunate in that I can just about miss one session. For the last two years I have been on dialysis, I have missed four sessions: once to meet a "friend" who was in town literally for that afternoon; once for my grandfather's funeral; once because I couldn't be bothered (and possibly because there was an episode of Gilmore Girls I wanted to watch on E4+1) and once when I had an observed lesson at school (I was teaching up until very recently). So four out of God-knows-how-many doesn't seem too bad. More than 1 though and I'd be cooked. I read that somewhere that without dialysis, the patient would survive for roughly another 2 weeks. I wonder what Norway's renal provisions are like...
Still, my housemate stacked it at Wandsworth Road station this morning in front of a gaggle of fellow commuters, so comparatively I'm doing pretty well.
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