Savilla's Hope - Peritoneal Dialysis

Savilla has kidney failure and as a result is on peritoneal dialysis. To stay alive she has to "hook up" to her machine every night for 8 hours. There are many hurdles to overcome on a daily bases with endstage renal failure and this series of videos is made to give the viewer more reality about this debilitating disease. It is not a health education video, yet a look into one person's ordeal. All of the steps shown here, Savilla learned from her PD nurse and from her doctors.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Kidney
• Disease
• Peritoneal
• Dialysis
• Organ
• Transplant
• failure

[SavillasHope]

Savilla is glad she decided to do dialysis, because it helped her a lot. However, she started PD when her kidney function was only 4%. Her doctors urged her to start months earlier, but she refused to because she was in denial. Savilla thinks that her postponing treatment may be the reason she had so many symptoms from ESRD. She also severe pain on the initial and final drains, which is unusual.

[HaPpYsAfE]

Have you ever been infected with Peritonitis?

[SavillasHope]

Luckily, Savilla never had peritonitis or any other infections. Her nurse taught her to make sure her hands were washed and sterilized before touching any supplies. She was also told her to wear a mask and gloves if she had a cough or a cold.

[lolitsanthony]

Yeah I have drain pain, well doesnt hurt as much anymore, but its uncomfortable. im a 17 yr old male. Dialysis is really tedious.

[kmhouston9]

hello can i tell you something it don;t take all that to  stay alive frist let me no that you are alive

[ionyou]

I hear a lot of people on here talking about drain pain and that they have been told it is unusual. I don't know why this myth persists. It is not unusual. I was on PD for years. I had drain pain in the beginning, it went away after about 1.5 years. The time it takes to go away may be different for everyone, and some ppl may never experience drain pain. But it will go away.

Ask your clinic about tidal function on this machine, it can eliminate drain pain until your body adjusts.

[lb8068]

Visited the site but it doesn't exist. Fail.

[Maryjoyjlo]

Guy,s I'm new dialysis. So difficult to understand why it happen like this. Already 2 weeks in hospital need to live normal but I can't anymore somebody donor me KIDNEY. OMG HELP ME!!!!!!

[majetoJESUS]

@chopsuey061987 Try to turn around from left to right in a kind of shaking motion wile filling... it might just get the end of the catheter of of that spot...

[majetoJESUS]

@TheJoe666999 Yeah at the beginning it was not that nice to be honest. But now aver a change of medication and little more than 1,5 year later my health got really good! I'm very happy!! I lost the 20 pounds I gained after the operation! Lost my girlfriend because of that weight... She thought I wasn't trying hard enough to lose that weight, guess she's just to stupid to understand...

[TheJoe666999]

@majetoJESUS youve had a transplant? same..hard in the beggining but easy the rest =)...