Short version: peritoneal dialysis is not working, again, and Rick has had to go back to hemodialysis. It's enough to make a good man go bad, or at least go in the living room and watch TV.
He goes back to PD class tomorrow to see if it's working now. Twice now he has had the experience of having it work for a couple of days, and then stop draining on the third day. He sees a pattern in this and wants to know what is going on, and why. As do we all. Everyone wants the PD to be a success - the doctors, the nurses, the kidney center techs, Rick, me, the dog. We're all for it. It just hasn't happened yet and we're not sure why it's not working. So he goes back to hemodialysis.
Of course it's nice to go back and see all the techs & nurses at the NW Kidney Center - it does become a little family over the months you spend there - but with all due respect and the greatest affection in the world for the staff, he wants to come home.
So we begin another week of trying to figure it out and make it work.
And that's the news from here on Sunday night.
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