So, I’ve been on haemodialysis (HD) for just over two months now. Just settled into the rhythm of it. Sunday afternoons (after church), Tuesday mornings (first thing), and Friday lunchtimes are the days I have been going up to Tallaght University Hospital for my HD. Each day there are friendly faces from the nursing staff and from other patients who are there. Each day brings a different set of people with whom there is some socializing.

Seems ages ago now, but in reality it is only just over a month ago that I had a day procedure to insert a Tenckoff catheter into my peritoneal cavity so that I could move to Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). On Monday 25th February, two nurses came out to start me off on that at home. Don’t worry, I had had plenty of training sessions in the hospital before they let me go it alone…