Our bodies are amazing machines. My wife was doing okay on 17% of normal kidney function when all of a sudden it took a nose dive from chronic kidney failure to acute and she ended up in the hospital last January. The culprit seems to have been a wrongly prescribed medication for a bladder infection. This little mishap resulted in her being on dialysis for three months after her 11 day hospital stay and 3 week skilled nursing home experience. Her kidneys have recovered somewhat in that her kidney function is nearly back to the baseline, but not quite. Last Friday she had surgery to create a port in the event of another episode of acute kidney failure.
One thing that was very interesting about dialysis was that it depletes one's protein levels. As a result, the dialysis diet includes protein at every meal, where as chronic kidney failure dictates limited protein intake. One of the main things one must watch is high blood pressure. Thus sodium intake is reduced to as little as possible and we are all reading labels no like crazy. You'd be amazed at how much sodium there is in pre-packed foods.
Daz Ball has a lot on his plate and he must be an amazing person to be capable of doing dialysis 4 times a week while still training at the gym. Dialysis depletes a person's energy levels to zilch. My wife was sleeping most of the time. It is hard to imagine how he is managing this.
