At haemodialysis - very tied up!

Tied up.

This is me tied up at haemodialysis. Needles in one arm, other arm in a cast and with blood pressure cuff on. For four and a half hours. Stopping my bleeding at the end of my session takes extra time (today around 1 hour!).

I'm still able to use a couple of fingers to drive my laptop and to keep me from being bored out of my mind. It is slow going though.

Many dialysis patients go for the 'Michael Jackson' one glove look, our hands/arms get irritatingly cold. When you are tethered to the machine with your blood circulating through the system, it gets very very cold.

Haemodialysis units need to be cool for infection control reasons.