I used to transport people to dialysis....What a nightmare.
They would stumble out nauseous and sometimes streaming blood down from their stent. I used to wait out front for them and often would hear a siren in the distance and knew it was coming to where I was. Firetruck would pull up, EMT'S rush into Davita, bring out person on stretcher. This happened sometimes 2-3 times per week. People were dying constantly, The 3 people I transported all died. Probably 50% of the people died in a 5 year period. Typically it was 3-4 hours of dialysis 3 times per week. You can skip a session periodically, but one friend of mine skipped one session and died the next day.Sometimes they died while hooked up to the machine. Some people got fed up and refused to continue, they would live about 2 weeks and die. Got to be depressing.
