Kidney Failure

As long as there is no sugar, or protein in your urine I think you could pass a DOT exam.
But I am not a doctor so don't take my advice.

 

I don't think I would hit Americas roads in a truck with known kidney issues. Trucking will only give you more. Nasty roads out here! Just my 2 cents...

 

in time, you may get worse. sorry, but it is the facts

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you might be able to work on the docks, or in the office, up until you need weekly dialysis...

 

Perhaps driving a yard truck would be possible. On private property.

 

Sorry to hear about your health. Probably not a good idea to go trucking. It's hard on a healthy person.

 

Kidney failure untreated will kill you by septis in a week. Literally filling your blood with poison, wastes and other icky nasty trash. You essentially boil in a stew of #### so to speak until your organs shut down one by one until enough goes off line and dead you are. Done.

I don't know how long dialysis treatments last. Literally taking blood from one arm, through a machine to remove those wastes normally removed by you number one or number two and transferred back to your other arm. That takes a few hours. roughly.

The other type snips off your bladder tube and reroutes it to a filter installed into your gut inside the adominal wall. You literally PEE inside yourself which then is filtered by that bag or whatever they call it. Eventually it has to be changed I would think.

Once you start doing either one, blood tests are needed.

You wont have time for that OTR trucking. Not with all these appointments in your face.

Ultimately a new kidney or two would fix that problem. But if you don't change the original cause of that failure you are wasting resources best needed by someone who can be cured by transplant.

My own mother had been sick for 6 years at the end of her life. Docs did not understand it. Military docs knew nothing. Finally one doc said the liver is finally bad. Drop a new one into her. So one day they did.

THAT is NOT what killed her a month later. It was actually a form of bacterial infections which is quite deadly living and growing constantly near her Lungs where they meet the windpipe and inside the chest wall.

The original liver was not only dealing with some drinking but also the waste products of this infection. Finally they put in a new one. They had to. But that's not a cure. 250,000 dollars billed I think in total on her in about 45 days.

She may have been better off without that transplant at all. For a while anyway. But sometimes you literally have to die before they cut you open enough to discover. AHA... this is the killer.

 

Heineken. My Kidney doc said drink. I'm fine.

 

Yes sir.

 

You might be able to get a yard dog job, but if you have renal failure, and it is progressing, getting on the road might be unsafe.

If you have had renal failure, but the underlying cause has been addressed and controlled, and your kidneys are working sufficiently well that you do not need dialysis, then getting on the road in a truck might be possible.