Another Monday come and gone. And would you believe it? Not one single iota of problems today. Everything went smooth as silk. I don't remember if I've posted it or not about me not using clamps any more. That whole first year, I was clamped and taped and bled, and with no avail. After deciding I didn't have much to lose, I started trying other stuff. Holding the site til the bleeding stopped and then watched carefully as I released the pressure to make sure it didn't start again. It did just fine. At first I was peeling the tape off as soon as I got home. Then it was using minimal taping. Now I leave with a bandaid. It has never started bleeding since I've been doing this, but I do watch it pretty carefully just so it doesn't decide to mess me up. I just think my veins and tissues are loose and can roll around a lot, but to do so is easy to dislodge any healing clot that has formed there. I will be so glad when I get this catheter out.
~Later
3 comments:
One of the nurses at our dialysis unit frowned on clamping. There's a move on in the professional dialysis community to stop using clamps, as there is proof that they damage the fistula (aneurysms and stenosis).
Why is the professional dialysis community so slow in educating the public (patients) and practicing what they know?
They are promoting this at various conferences, but I guess that not everyone has the opportunity to go to them (although at the dialysis unit I went to, the National Kidney Foundation paid for the nurses to go to conferences).
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