Hello, I’m Christopher Springmann, and for patient Nieltje Gedney, her personal chronic kidney disease journey has been challenging, as she tells this month’s NephTalk about how she finally discovered and enthusiastically embraced home hemodialysis.

And I would have chosen to die, except that I was taking care of my mother, and the second was the fact that the nephrologist in the hospital who saw me on an emergency basis told me about home dialysis. And in all the years that I had been struggling against CKD, kidney disease, no one ever mentioned that option. Those two things really saved my life.

Nieltje’s experience compelled her to become an outspoken patient advocate for Home Dialyzors United - and she is ferociously independent.

Well, that is true. I dialyze to live. I don't live to dialyze. I have made it a point to live my life as normally as possible. I call it my “oil change.” The few times a week that I do my dialysis treatment, is when I relax. I kind of go into my zone. I totally chill out. And I am

revitalized.

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