Advice to my fellow dialysis patient in pain...

Doesn't get any more real than this

I can so feel your painful upset. I'm only on my 8th year of dialysis. This morning I arrived at the clinic and was told water hadn't been tested yet and there was anywhere from a 1 to 1.5 hour wait. The way I take in fluid demands that I have dialysis 4 x a week, and with that I'm barely keeping up. Not to be allowed 4 hours was going to be a major upheaval, nothing compared to yours of course, but the clinic dietitian a woman I've known for some time and trust said, I could work it out with the nurse, that if I really needed the full treatment I could probably get it. Once in the chair, a nurse I'm only acquainted with and I get into it because she says there is no Flex possible. 

Things can quickly spiral out of control when we're upset over bad/negative/shocking news, mostly because our lives hang in the balance. All I can say is that we've all bought a piece of a certain tragic greek mythological cake and each piece will finish digesting on its own time table. The best we can do is to keep pushing that rock up the hill, chewing out cake, assisting the digestive process come hell or high water. And, the high road is putting everything in the most positive light possible. Ease your pain don't compound it. Your either going to come through this by hook or crook or not. The prize is in the traveling not the destination.