On the upside: CKD does make you sit up and take notice

[Skeptix]

I mean, our bodies are the most amazing things. When you start delving into it, it's a wonder to behold. All these processes turning what we chuck into our bodies into either Worthwhile or Waste. All the checks and balances and interactions and compensating..

I cringe when I think of how I've treated my body hitherto

I'm early doors into CKD, being diagnosed, perchance about 7 years ago at gfr mid 40's. Steady (and ignored because it was steady) for those years then a recent 'plunge', maybe bout of Covid related, to 37-33. That made me sit up and take notice.

I tend to be tough enough, being 5'6" does that to you. I can live with any diet and the symptoms and the early death (that I know where I'm going does help). But I have a family who needs me and whose company I enjoy.

More than enough to put up a fight for.

[Bet117 NKF Ambassador]

Definately worth fighting for! 🙏🤗😊

[RhenDutchess123]

I know what you are saying....I am on Home Peritoneal Dialysis and in order to do that the equipment and supplies take up a whole room in my house....All this stuff to "kinda" replace the work our Kidneys do every minute 24 hours a day..

Take care of these PreciousJewels.....

[Skeptix in reply to RhenDutchess123]

'Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'till it's gone?'

In my case it's the stifled tears of today: shopping in the supermarket with the dawning realisation that I won't be eating most of the food on those shelves. But that only a layer on the wider dawning realisation.

You have it so tough...

You put it well: I have these pair of jewels. Yet I'm sitting sipping a whiskey past midnight speed- reading my way through Lee Hull

Think the best thing I could do for my kidneys is turn in.

Thanks for the refocus RS123

[Whitetail66]

I agree with your assessment and attitude. I watched a documentary on Curiosity Stream the other day about the human body, There are three episodes, and the first one was primarily about how the organs of the body communicate directly with each other without use of the brain, and the organ that they focused on was the kidneys. I was amazed at how much the kidneys do, and are arguably the most important organ we have in terms of body functioning properly. They control everything! The show is called 'The Body- The Networks Within Our Bodies'. I highly recommend watching it. Fascinating show! The one thing that CKD is forcing me to do, is change my diet to a healthy one, as opposed to the crap I was eating. It really makes one look at the way that we as a society (in general) eat the most unhealthy foods. I can only speak of the US, as that's where I live. I look around and shake my head, knowing that 90% of the people out there are slowly poisoning themselves with all the processed foods, and fast food diets. I used to be one of them, and I still struggle to eat healthy. But if I want to be around to watch my kids grow up and enjoy grand kids some day, I need to be strong and find will power that I never thought I had.

[Skeptix in reply to Whitetail66]

It is that simple: do you want to live. I suppose most of us only ask that question once it is posed. By way of CKD in our case.

Get busy living or get busy dying I suppose.