Dialysis Quotes

• I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

  Jonah Lomu

  Goal, Important, Needs

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

  Max Lucado

  Thankful, Gratitude, Self

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014

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• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Years, Three

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• A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

  Sheri Fink

  Healthy, Needs, Might

  "Kidney Patients Face Dialysis Rationing" by Sheri Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2010.

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• There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

  John Roberts

  Risk, Kidneys, Cadavers

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

  Jonah Lomu

  Years, Choices, World

  "First & last: Jonah Lomu". Interview with Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

  Art Buchwald

  Years, Done, Goes On

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• 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.

  Jessica Alba

  Pneumonia, Degrees, Fever

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

  John Perez

  Mother, Years, Kidneys

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• We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Numbers, People, Decision

  "Ezra Klein Interviews Ezekiel Emanuel on 'Death Panels' and D.C. Food". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

  Nathan Fillion

  Firefly, Science, Hopefully

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• I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.

  Art Buchwald

  Hero, Alive, Stills

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