On a routine 6 weekly check up with the multi-disciplinary team that is Pre-Dialysis in July 2015, I saw Dr Gill Hirst. I'd started a job earlier that month after 5 years out of work and I felt pretty good in myself. Which is what I said when she asked me how I was. Later that afternoon she rang me and said my eGFR reading had gone done to 8% from 10% and could I go in Friday morning for another blood test, she also said not to worry, it could be a rogue result.
Turned out it wasn't a rogue result, it had gone down, so I was asked to go in the following Friday and she told me I was to start dialysis. I saw the pre-dialysis nurses who did their MRSA swabbings and yet more blood was taken.
I'd already discussed that I wanted to do home haemo so I would be going to the Altrincham Renal Unit which was new, it used to be done at Wythenshawe, and I'd been for a look round that unit earlier in the year. New NHS policy dictated that the first couple of sessions had to be done at MRI as more general medical staff were on hand should anything go wrong (a little worrying).
So I went home thinking about how crap the timing of it all was, what with the new job and feeling fine and everything. Ho hum.....
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