Renal Failure Quotes

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

I was diagnosed with hypertension when I was 24, and I battled hypertension for about 10 to 12 years, and then I went to the doctor for something else, and he found that I had high levels of protein in my urine, and that's how I found out I had kidney disease.

I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn't plan work, I couldn't plan vacations, I couldn't plan dinner, I couldn't plan homework, I couldn't plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

We are glad to tie up with a humanitarian organization, which is being promoted by Prince Abdul Aziz. This partnership will greatly help in assisting needy renal-failure patients by supplying them equipment, medicines and other medical supplies, while encouraging and supporting scientific research.

The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

I was in the hospital for about two weeks because I had some complications due to the transition to kidney from dialysis and getting off of that.

I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.