Kidney Failure

Peritoneal dialysis could work in a truck. Perhaps even during driving

 

Here is a link for people who do not understand.

Problem one. Creating a safe path to drain your new IV solution into your belly. How long will THAT take. How long to empty the solution in your belly?

After 4 hours or so you have to empty that belly and throw the waste fluid into a bath tub or toilet. I can only imagine discarded bags or bottles filled with this waste next to pee bottles in the truckstop trash.

6 times a day. Let's see. How many hours total will you lose doing this?

What is the temperature your IV solutions supply must be at? Can it endure say a 40 degree cab as you have a dead truck for a few hours prior to being towed into a shop during a Dakota winter storm? Or possibly say a 90 degree Cab environment as you have AC on full blast crossing the Sonora Desert in the highest summer heat in the SW?

What do you think will happen if you for some reason CANNOT GET A TIMELY LOAD home to buy a fresh pile of IV solution in supply for the next few weeks?

What would you have to do if you were to take time off, park the truck in the yard and try to go home on say greyhound or airplane with 50 pounds of IV solution in bags plus your luggage.

You are no longer a trucker capable of 600 miles in 11 hours. At best you can produce say 350 miles if you are lucky.

I don't think too many companies will accept a slow driver on loads that pretty much have to be somewhere in a timely manner.

The possibility of infection from other people sitting in common surfaces like showers, truck stop counters and stools and so on so forth etc.

Peritoneal Dialysis | NIDDK

 

There is 3 different types of Dialysis! I have my CDL and still drive local that’s all you can do or yard dog! I’m doing HD sitting in the clinic hooked up to the machine as I respond to this thread. The Minimum you sit for is 3 Hrs a day 3 times a week. (Monday Tuesday & Friday). Dr said if my numbers keep getting better I should be able to come off the HD with in month or 2
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