The level of professionalism and skill at the dialysis clinic here is impressive! So are staff members' people skills. I say this as a very, very, very picky patient. Clinic is nonprofit.

I can see why patients feel overwhelmed by this process - lots of paperwork, needles, flashing buttons, beeps, tubes, machines. But even though I have almost no direct/hands-on dialysis nursing experience (I was a post-surgery, ICU, and hospice nurse,) medical equipment is so familiar to me, I found it comforting. Despite the white noise of equipment, there was a calm busy-ness that also was very reassuring, along with the good-humored camaraderie of the patients themselves.

No physical discomfort at all! That is, other than the old-hat fibromyalgia-arthritis-etc.-etc. kind.

Came home exhausted and hungry, wolfed down noodles and peanut butter (what a combo!)

Still tired this morning but feel so much better. I know that’s temporary but since it’s true for now I’ll enjoy it.

Yesterday was a good day to live.

Today is a good day to live, too.

And love and hope live here with us.