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Harvey Wells I have been on NxStage since March 2007. Since then I’ve taken two road trips with my grandsons and others along the way – one for about 3 weeks and almost 3500 miles staying in hotels and camping out, and another that lasted over 7 weeks and over 12,500 miles 37 states stopping at dialysis centers along the way to demonstrate NxStage’s freedom and flexibility. Both trips would have been imposable or nearly imposable if I would have tried to schedule in-center treatments at all the locations we visited. The freedom and exhilaration that you feel when you take control of your medical treatments is one of the greatest feelings of liberation that you will experience. Your care and your treatment or at your control and you decide when and where. The constraints and difficulties of dialysis are managed and controlled by you. For me that was enough to get me to try NxStage but after I started I realized the real benefit was in how I feel! I’m healthier and have more energy and I don’t experience the roller coaster ride often associated with the 3 day a week in-center therapy. The frequency of home dialysis ensures that your body is getting rid of the toxins and fluid on a regular basis instead of allowing them to build up every other day. I would encourage anyone on dialysis that has the ability and desire to get more out of life to take their care under their control and experience the NxStage euphoria. Like the thousands of us who have made that decision, you’ll soon experience for yourself how life can be different! Harvey Wells Euless, TX Harvey_wells@sbcglobal.net Ted Latour I started dialysis in January, 1988, over 21 years ago. To date I have dialyzed in 27 facilities coast to coast. My first transplant in 1989 was an immediate failure, which left me sensitized against the majority of possible future matches. I kept dialyzing and praying for another chance at a good kidney for 10 more years when I finally received that ‘needle in a haystack’ - a second transplant in 1999.
This kidney did not produce even a drop for over a month, and I kept dialyzing and trying to coax it back life. My BUN was always well over 100. Finally 5 months later it struggled but did run well enough on its own to stop dialysis. It then gave me 6 years of fair to poor function before quitting, and I resumed dialysis in late 2006.
My wife Laurie and I learned to do home hemo in 1994 and earned tech certification. When dialysis started again in late 2006 we were motivated to learn the new home hemo technology by NxStage. This was at a time when my transplant had just failed, I had 35 extra pounds of water, and in-center treatments were exceedingly rough, nearly intolerable. The bicarb/acid dialysate always left me weak, itchy, beat up and my legs twitched at night. We took our NxStage machine home in January, 2007, and were excited how comfortable my treatments had become. NxStage uses lactate for its dialysate, so much easier on a person’s system. It is not a stretch to say that the NxStage technology played a big part in saving my life at this time.
I am now back on a transplant waiting list, and have risen to the top for my blood group, but I so greatly prefer this NxStage modality that I notified my center not to call me with any offers. We know the NxStage modality is better for me than any other.
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