Resdential Medical Training Week

Baxters is the medical company contracted to the NHS. They supply the machine and organize all delivery including teaching. This is my bedroom.

The training center is design for 5 students set in a homely environment.

Automatic PD Dialysis Machine

This is the complex machine that will dialyzes me at night, my job now is to learn the procedure , pipes computer menu and sterilization etc.

The machine is call an APD machine the model is HomeChoicePRO, it uses special software that get upgraded occasionally.

The bag on top of the machine has a automatic heater with thermostat.

The blue cassette organizes the pipes and gets changes on each dialysis session.

Fluid Heater

This device heats your dialysis fluid to body temperature. This makes it more comfortable and prevents shock also. This device is for manual P D dialysis, the auto machine has a built in heater.

Catheter Photo

This is the first time to see the tube while the exit wound was being cleaned. This happens once a week now. You can see the valve that will transfer the dialysis fluid to and from the adominal cavity. The section exiting the body must be keep very clean to prevent any infections that risk illness. Any day now I may start dialysis and some time during next 5 weeks.

Peritoneal Catheter

Here is the exit site with dressing ready for healing. It takes 6 weeks to heal.

The operation was done with local anesthetics so i could feel what was happening. It is more painful operation than the biopsy operation.

After the catheter was inserted in the abdominal cavity they tested the pipe with half a liter of fluid. It worked nicely. After my recovery I will be trained how to do peritoneal dialysis by machine overnight. The training takes a week.

We pay too much for security, not enough on poverty.

According to the Zedillo report to the UN, the MDGs will cost approximately the following to implement:

These contrast with the following spending figures (for 2005):

This Photo sums it up very well..

Nurse visit

Today i was being prepared for my operation to inplant a dialysis tube into my abdomem.
They did a CRT scan. Took lots of blood samples and two swab samples.
The day before my operation i will take a drug to clean out my guts which involves explosive diarrhea! They warned me i will not be allowed a bath for 6 weeks!

The result of my scan blood pressure was a little high.