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Hmmm...
Well right now I'm quite bored
I wouldn't know what to write about
I don't explain my feelings real well
and I don't explain my life real well either
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MisakiRose
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 @ 10:35am
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 @ 10:52am
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Kidney Disease
Is it not sad to think that Kidney Disease affects about 20 million people in the United States? Yes in the United States alone. To think of the horrors around the world. Where there is not technology to help the sick. 95,000 deaths occur in one year, only in U.S. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) traumatizes its victims physically until their bodies deteriorate. CKD can result to kidney failure which results in a transplant, or death. CKD patients can also have the risk of having heart disease. Tis sad to think that not only is one organ (or two if both kidneys) is failing but your heart may deteriorate too?
I shake my head and wonder why children, young adults, adults, and seniors must suffer through this horror.
Now I do not have the time at this moment to look up all the treatments and such but I will tell you what I know so far about CKD.
Chronic kidney disease includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by doing the jobs listed. If kidney disease gets worse, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. You may develop complications like high blood pressure, anemia (low blood count), weak bones, poor nutritional health and nerve damage. Also, kidney disease increases your risk of having heart and blood vessel disease. These problems may happen slowly over a long period of time. Chronic kidney disease may be caused by diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders. Early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney disease from getting worse. When kidney disease progresses, it may eventually lead to kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life.
Read enough yet? Are you bored? Interested? Fascinated? Or completely disgusted? Hmmm...tis life
CKD patients must undergo either antibiotics, kidney dialysis, or kidney transplant.
Antibiotics will only work for a little while, and soon the patient will have to go for dialysis.
As far as I know about Dialysis, the patient must sit in the room from 3-6 hours. Some may go in once a week and others have the burden of going in for dialysis 4-5 times a week. They sit in a chair with a machine hooked up to their body. The machine drains their blood and cleans it for them such as what a kidney does. Some victims are even too weak to go to the hospital for this and therefore have to have in home dialysis. 24/7 Nurses are called to help the family out.
Kidney transplant...
Now I am sure you know what that means eh?
Not many people are lucky to have this transplant...
There is size and blood type to consider...
There is also the ever 'will my body reject this kidney' worry...
Hmm what do you think of this disease now?
Unfortunately I have heard stories about these tragedies...
It breaks my heart to just hear if a young boy/girl has been diagnosed with this terminal illness...
If you know more about CKD, do tell. I like to learn about these things. Why? I do not even know myself.
Just pray or think about what these people go through. Every thought and prayer (whether you are religious or not) is a help to these people.
I leave you with this....
~MisakiRose~
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MisakiRose
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MisakiRose
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 @ 04:27am
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Cystic Fibrosis
Hmm...
I didn't know what to write about so I decided on a disease that hurts me whenever I hear about it.
Have you heard about Cystic Fibrosis? It's a very sad thing that is incurable. It breaks my heart to hear about it. I just recently found out that my mom's friend's daughter was diagnosed with this horrible fate. She's just a little 5 year old girl. Blonde blue eyes with the cutest dimples.
On with it then...
Cystic Fibrosis is a chronic lung disease that is inherited. This disease is a thick sticky mucus that builds up in the lungs and digestive track which may lead to early death. There are about 1,000 mutations of CF and its symptoms differ with each person. Most CF patients are diagnosed by their 1st birthday. Seldomly are there any patients within the teenaged years to be diagnosed.
Symptoms are...
exclaim Recurrent respiratory infections (pneumonia or sinusitis)
exclaim Infants who may have salty-tasting skin
exclaim Coughing or wheezing
exclaim No bowel movements for first 24 to 48 hours of life
exclaim Diarrhea
exclaim Delayed growth
exclaim Fatigue
exclaim Weight loss, or failure to gain weight normally during childhood
exclaim Etc.
Are you bored or disgusted so far? Hmmm I shall still go on with it then...
Tis sad to know the treatments for they won't cure the victims of this fate...
Treatments are...
exclaim Antibiotics for respiratory infections
exclaim Pancreatic enzymes to replace those that are missing.
exclaim Vitamin supplements, especially vitamins A, D, E, and K.
exclaim Inhaled bronchodilators, such as albuterol (Proventil, Ventolin), help open the airways.
exclaim DNAse enzyme replacement therapy. The medication dornase (Pulmozyme) contains an enzyme that thins the mucus and makes it easier to cough up.
exclaim Postural drainage and chest percussion. (Where the patient must needs their mucus be beaten, to put it figuritively, out of them about three times a day)
exclaim Lung transplant may be considered in some cases.
Now...I must say that this may be boring to some but I shall continue with it...
Expectations of life during Cystic Fibrosis
Today's average life span is now to about 35 years of age. This is a dramatic change from about 30 or so years ago when the life span was about 21-22. There are still teenage deaths around 12-14 in some most advanced stages.
These patients may have recurrent pneumonia, pneumothorax, coughing up blood, chronic respiratory failure, cor pulmonale, liver disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and arthritis.
Due to many complications, physical 'fun' is very limited to CF patients. Tis it not sad to see that someone so young and full of life has to be limited to the wonders of the world? I personally do not know how it is to have this dreadful disease. I only learn upon it medically and personal lives for I find it terrible yet fascinating. Fascinated to hear the stories told by some of the people who carry this inherited disease. They think of nothing but the present and future and how to make it better. They press to survive the fate that has been laid upon them yet find it a blessing. A blessing to see the world as a beautiful place and not so much the bad as many 'normal' people have.
I personally would not have the courage to go through my life thinking that I might end up dead even before I marry and have a career.
Well this is not a real big 'summary' or 'discussion' on Cystic Fibrosis. Tis just the basics of it. If you have read this, do tell if you carry CF or have been affected by it somehow. I open my heart to all the people who have suffered from this treachery.
Now...tell me what you think of this journal.
Whether it be boring or interesting, I'd like to know whee
~MisakiRose~
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