Dear Diary: Kidney Disease And Water Therapy

I had been battling with my fluid intake more than half of my lifetime, at first I was drinking like cow forcibly while I am still ill with my disease as my mother wants me to do it because she believed that drinking water and herbal preparations in large quantities will do me good or cure me but it didn't because the nature of my kidney disease in those years, it needed an adequate medical treatment but I haven't got my treatment.

In tandem with "Water therapy" I was subjected into an almost salt-free diet for years and it made me get those mild fevers, possibly from my progressive kidney ailment those years and of course electrolyte imbalance. It made the skin on my fingers crack until after some years later I was doing it wrong and that I should only avoid salty junk foods and eat the normal foods on how it was prepared and not to add extra condiment on them.

Then after being on the dialysis for the first time was different. I thought that I could do the normal diet that I was having while being a dialysis patient especially with the fluids. I am just fortunate that there had not been an issue where I can't completely breathe because of fluids in my lungs, they are just always saved by dialysis.

But on the first few years in dialysis I was like in hell as I am receiving mediocre treatment and we were not educated as patients. If only I received the best treatment I would not end up disabled. But I had found myself surviving thanks to God and the people around me then and most especially now that are selflessly supporting me to the point that I could count myself as one of the luckiest dialysis patient in the steem blockchain.

Because I can now add dialysis sessions and buy myself medicines and supportive supplements, things that I could only dream before. God Bless you all.