If you let it, being a dialysis patient becomes all-consuming; you are relegated to eating, sleeping, and living “dialysis.” I posit that this is not a good thing for either your physical or mental health and you need to “get away” from your dialysis persona, even if only for short breaks. While your life away may not be as robust as it previously was, you can still enjoy life as it is.
One of the things I enjoy is helping our son build out the new home he is building outside of Palo Pinto, Texas. It is a unique build in that he is utilizing a building technique called ICF, for Insulated Concrete Forms. Along with this, he and his family have a vision of a Doctor Dolittle-esk animal collection. First up in this collection, is a chicken coup which is under construction. I have helped him with the electrical wiring to and in the coup. See the video below where their daughter relates about the coup. See, you CAN do things other than dwell on dialysis. I do.
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