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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Exactly having Marfans disease puts a timeline on your life. With constant dialysis along with hiding in the mountains his chances for living many years were really low.Even as a CIA asset OBL had a limited life span.


121 posted on 08/19/2018 8:18:49 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the free because of the brave! MAGA!!)
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"Daily dialysis" usually means that the patient (and usually a caregiver) can administer an 8-hour connection to a smaller, slower-acting device. In this country, a home patient can usually get trained and be ready to do this in a few weeks. Normally, they send a test result on a monthly or weekly basis to a health care professional for monitoring of key indicators. There is also a monthly physical visit with the professional, again for monitoring purposes.

The standard alternative is the routine 4-hour treatment which is administered 3 times per week, in a clinic setting, using different, larger equipment. That would be more difficult to do in a smaller, home setting.

Either treatment series would require steady electricity for device power and refrigeration.

131 posted on 08/19/2018 8:30:02 AM PDT by Bernard (We will stop calling you fake news when you stop being fake news.)
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