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    The Start

    August 14, 2019 by

    Actually, I am not very good at writing, so here goes. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when I was 16, during a routine blood test to enter Temasek Polytechnic. Type 2 diabetes is the type where the body gets so resistant to insulin that the blood sugar starts to rise. Type 1 diabetes… Read more

  • Afraid to die alone

    January 19, 2020 by

    A friend shared with me that her cousin passed away, leaving 2 kids and a wife behind. He was around my age, mid 30s. This triggered a memory in me. There was a period of time, around 1 and a half months before going into the hospital for emergency dialysis, where I was afraid to… Read more

  • My life during dialysis

    January 5, 2020 by

    Throughout my year on dialysis, I had always say that I do not want to go through the kidney transplant surgery. There were many things in my mind that stopped me from wanting it. Things like the risks for both me and my mother, the hospitalization stay, recovery period etc. There came a point in… Read more

  • The cost of dialysis

    December 27, 2019 by

    I was out of the hospital with the shiny new catheter installed on my chest. Dialysis in the hospital has been smooth with no hiccups. I felt okay. It was not a process as bad as I had imagined it to be. Of course, there is always a reminder at the back of my head,… Read more

  • Central Venous Catheter

    December 19, 2019 by

    There are 3 options for dialysis, Internal Arteriovenous Fistula Internal Arteriovenous Graft Central Venous Catheter Both AV fistula and AV graft require a surgeon to cut the arm open to modify the veins and arteries in there to create an access for the dialysis needle. This process is irreversible and side effects include loss of… Read more

  • The gift that came 10 years early

    December 8, 2019 by

    One of the many conversations we had in the hospital, one of them is the possibility of a kidney transplant. There are 2 types of kidneys available for transplants, kidneys from living donors and kidneys from donor who just passed away. The chances of a cadaver kidney transplant in Singapore is like striking lottery. Other… Read more

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