Thursdays Belong to the Machine
His bloods were excellent. His fluid balance was textbook. He was also about to lose the job he had held for nineteen years, and I had never once asked him what our schedule was doing to his week.
Treatment
Dialysis
2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
This collection has the same experience described from both sides — worth reading as a pair.
I Am Not Non-Compliant. I Am Tired.
It is in my notes, I have seen it: "poorly compliant with fluid restriction". Four years of doing something impossibly hard imperfectly, summarised as a character flaw. Here is what that word does.