Beth Chalick-Kaplan, PhD is an Outreach Specialist for Region 3 at CMS Managing your health while living with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) can be overwhelming. Taking multiple medications, following a special diet, and keeping appointments with different specialists while caring for your family and/or working can be difficult.
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Dialysis
Patient Profile: Ray Harris 1-2-3 Strikes and Still Swinging at CKD
My story starts in early spring 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland to be exact, my hometown. My career was soaring as a recent graduate and police officer for the state of Maryland. My personal life was also fruitful as I was dating my lovely wife, Lauren. I knew I was winning at life and I could only see good getting better.
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CDC and AAKP Launch Partnership to Limit Dialysis-Related Bloodstream Infections
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2016 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) AND THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS (AAKP)
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A Caregiver’s Wish List: Tips on How Dialysis Patients Can Help Their Caregivers
For many adults, having to be dependent on someone else is not easy. People living with a chronic illness often experience a decline in health as the illness progresses. This decline may require more assistance from others for even the most basic tasks, such as bathing and toileting.
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Dialysis While You Sleep – An Alternative Therapy
There are more than 26 million Americans who suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), 350,000 need dialysis. Of those, 93 percent received hemodialysis (HD) at the end of 2007, and the remaining 7 percent were treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD) at home. In addition, there were about 3,000 patients using home hemodialysis (HHD)
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How Can I Love My Body Again?
pants anymore…” “I feel bloated a lot and hate feeling like I’m pregnant – especially because I’m a guy…” “How could my partner ever want to be intimate with me again when I have this plastic tube sticking out of me…” These statements and other concerns are often expressed by individuals on peritoneal dialysis (PD)
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Kidney Disease Hits the Hispanic Community at an Alarming Rate
Seven years ago, I was a busy manager of a furniture store and father to three young kids, when, at work one day, I had a high blood pressure episode. I temporarily lost consciousness and awoke in the hospital.
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The Feeling of Freedom: How Home Hemodialysis and Music Gave Me Back My Life – The David Peterson Story
Some say music runs through his veins – it’s what keeps him going. For David Peterson, known now as David Rush, writing music, playing instruments and singing is second only to breathing. The 28 year old rapper/musician is traveling the country promoting his new album, Rush.
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You Have Options
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients have three options once they reach end stage renal disease (ESRD): dialysis, kidney transplantation or no treatment. If a patient doesn’t choose a treatment option, he will die. Most patients choose dialysis and try to get on a kidney transplant list.
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High Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. When a person experiences high blood pressure (hypertension), the heart is forced to work harder than normal, causing it to grow bigger than usual, putting pressure on the arteries and the heart itself. This can also lead to kidney damage.
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