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Dialysis
It looks me more than 2 months
to finally accept the options they offer to me about what to do with my life.
At that time I was a PhD
student in the Electromechanical Research Group,
University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
As an electrical engineer with many years experience in the design and
construction of electrical system both commercial and industrial plants. I have
never released nor have any question with my health at all. I eat, sleep, get
up and work just like other people do.
Option 1:
if I do not want
to do anything with my body, my kidney will work
less and less. Finally, the system will shut down. I will feel tired, more
tired and get to the sleep stage and die peacefully. They cannot specify how
long I will live until that day.
Option 2: Start dialysis, which it can be haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
- Haemodialysis
- Peritoneal dialysis
Option 3: Kidney
transplants. I would put on the waiting list
to receive organ donation. In my case it would be more
difficult than others because my race is from an Asian. It is not a lot of Asian
people in this country. Most of organ mostly from the accidents from the car crash
which the brain dead.
It is an option but they have
no idea how long I have to wait from since it is not only I am in the queue but
also if the donated organ is matching or not. If it is matched other patients
more than me, it has to go to others.
The last option is, live donor. This usually comes from a close family,
parents, sister-brother and close relatives. It is a high chance to find
matches in the same DNA than general people.
I had experience both of dialysis systems. I was in Haemodialysis for few months before changing to Peritoneal dialysis until my blood was clean enough for transplant :)
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