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Treating Vitamin D deficiency by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I went to my nephrologist a few days back to discuss my Vitamin D deficiency. He wasn't as alarmed as I had expected him to be. Now, he is a guy who doesn't hide his emotions. ... Read on »

Adding multiple items to svn in one shot by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure If you're using subversion or some other version control for your code (if you're not, then you're really doing something wrong unless you're the only developer on the project ... Read on »

Low Vitamin D level by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure My Vitamin D level report is back. The value is 3.2 pg/ml. The normal is 19.6 to 54.3. So, it is really, really low. I am going to my nephrologist with the report tomorrow. I ... Read on »

400 posts and counting! by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Ok, this is post no. 400! Wow! That's quite a lot. Its been more than two years of blogging and 400 posts. I remember starting off inspired by Akbar's blog. To start with, I w ... Read on »

Lidocaine - to use or not by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Lidocaine is a local anesthetic. It is used extensively in surgeries to make areas of the body numb before making an incision. It is often used before dialysis to make the are ... Read on »

Bone pain by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure For about a month now, I have been having pain in my bones - mainly in my ribs, my back and my feet. When I sit for a little while and then get up, my walking is a little pain ... Read on »

If only someone else could worry on my behalf by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Like I said a few weeks back, if it was only the dialysis I had to deal with, it would be really all right. Its the whole set of side effects that puts me off. At one point, i ... Read on »

These are a few of my favorite things by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Yesterday, Dori Schatell, posted the five things she couldn't live without on Facebook and asked her friends to list theirs. That set me thinking. It didn't take too long actu ... Read on »

Quiet working spaces by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Software programming is primarily a mental job. Your entire work is done by your brain. Whatever your brain thinks is eventually typed by your hands on your keyboard to form t ... Read on »

Hemodialysis starting kit - shortage all around by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Ever since I have started home hemo, I have been using a small little sterilized kit that has a small plastic tray, six cotton balls, 6 gauze pieces, a paper towel and a sheet ... Read on »

Touched by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I played tennis in the same center as Sudhir. This was when I was in school - around 1986 to 1989, I think. He was a friendly guy and he came home to spend the day with my bro ... Read on »

Blood drops keep falling on my bed... by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Well on the floor, actually. But that didn't rhyme with the song! Ha ha ha. What happened was - this morning, when we (the tech and I) got up as the machine signaled that the ... Read on »

Hot water to help reduce amount of water consumed by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I have found drinking hot water instead of cool or cold water helps in drinking less water. People on dialysis need to restrict the amount of fluids consumed. Water is probabl ... Read on »

The clock starts ticking by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure For the last three and half years, Jayaram, a dialysis tech has been coming home every night around 10 to help me start my dialysis treatment. Once the session starts, he slee ... Read on »

Yippee, finally figured out how to disable app updates in Facebook by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure For a long, long time, I have been wanting to disable getting updates about how my friends were doing on the different applications and quizzes on Facebook. I couldn't care le ... Read on »

Free dialysis - coming soon to a center near you by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The Andhra Pradesh state government is extending the Aarogyasri program for dialysis. Very soon, 111 new dialysis centers are going to be operational. People with Aarogyasri c ... Read on »

Arterial buttonhole by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I have been using two pairs of buttonhole sites for the last couple of months. The venous sites are always well-behaved. Not much pain. The tracts are well formed. The needles ... Read on »

Lighting up a life - the story of Diane Franks by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Diwali is the festival of lights. In millions of homes all around the country, people light 'diyas' or lamps to celebrate the festival. The lamp symbolizes light in a dark wor ... Read on »

Are white lies used by managers really beneficial in the long run? by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Let me tell you about a little incident from my days as a manager at Effigent.I was managing a project with a small team. We were working on a particular feature which the cus ... Read on »

No dialysis for 2 days - how it felt by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure When I went for the trip to Vizag and Araku, I did not dialyse for two nights in a row. I have done this very rarely. Only twice before, I think. This is a classic problem. If ... Read on »

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