Well I have started Hemodialysis at a local dialysis center and it ain’t all that! The internet would have you believe its a place where one can go to meet new people, socialize and even preach the gospel. Well it isn’t that at all. In fact its more like the post picture, you sit alone and gaze off into nothingness. That picture is spot on except I ain’t that old and my hair is long!
I thought it was going to be a place to witness and minister to others and even break out the bible and study with others. Nope, this isn’t the case by any means. While there are others who believe in the centers, most are fighting low blood pressure or arguing with their swivel mounted television sets. The dialysis machines are constantly “Bonking” and “Alerting” to everything from the slightest breath to the lightest movement. If you are lucky enough to doze off for a few hours you are likely to be awakened by a nurse trying to medicate you. Or the blood pressure cuff over inflating.
For me its 3 and a half hours of Television or plugged into my phones radio listening to Christian radio or watching Discovery channel. I have tried to read the bible and found I can’t do it very well due to the constant distractions around me.
There is nothing Christian about dialysis, its a complex medical procedure that drains you of your blood, filtering it of toxins that the kidney used to filter out. Because its a blood product procedure visitors are not allowed which is also why I suspect the keep use distant from each other, with the potential of blood contamination and infection so great. If there is such a thing as a Christ based Christian dialysis center, I want to know about it because I’d be there in seconds.
Dialysis is an introduction to show you how bad the US medical system really is. Its bad! Dialysis is directly tied to the transplant industry. And I have experienced some serious corruption in the medical, transplant, dialysis healthcare system. I am a direct victim of it in fact. I have actually been died services at other dialysis clinics due to medical system corruption and specifically by Middle eastern physicians, I am not going to get into all of that in this post, but rest assured Many dialysis patients are having their medical rights violated every day, are being strung along and told they will get a transplant when the sad, secret reality is that they won’t. The truth is sitting in that dialysis chair for three hours a day is putting 10 grand in some nephrologists pocket, Dialysis is about money, Money is of the devil, you get where I am going from this point on!
In the United States there is roughly 200,00 on the Kidney Transplant list. The average wait time is 10 years, a large group of people on dialysis won’t last 5 years and the doctors and nephrologists refuse to tell their patients this because they don’t want to run off the money, BIG money they are making filling dialysis chairs. Chairs dialysis centers keep filled as much as possible and while not even cleaning most peoples blood well at all. Its not about health, its about money! What’s worse, most of the physicians controlling the Dialysis industry are Muslim in religion!
So far I have adapted to dialysis and I don’t get tired after a treatment. Unfortunately I’ve been in the hospital A BUNCH since August of last year because I fight fluid overload.
I still question why God has put me in this situation. I guess because I am missing something in my walk with him. I mean I still struggle with sin, I still cuss and have flipped the bird at some really stupid motorists who don’t know what a turn signal is. I still lust for female companionship, I have always been single in my life. I crave money, I have always been broke in life too. I guess God has put me in this to get me closer to him and less dependent of money and people.
I wish I could get more people to see what this industry is doing to people but even local journalists don’t seem interested. Maybe I need to contact my State representatives or maybe its just too late and this “want” to have it exposed is no more than the flesh trying to hang onto the world while I find my way back to Christ! It’s amazing how God uses so many things to reel a soul back to him!