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    • 17 Ratings
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    The waiting is over and for tonight, I am blind with fear

    AUGUST 13, 2010 6:04AM

    By Late Again


    Topics: medicine, non-fiction, health, dialysis, kidney disease, kidney failure, esrd, denial, i am so frightened

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1278 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    GlaxoSmithKline: making a killing UPDATED

    JUNE 5, 2011 10:44AM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: kidney failure, blindness, john buse, david graham, medical-industrial complex, overmedicalization, health insurance, health care, health, actos, troglitazone, pioglitazone, rosiglitazone, avandamet, avandaryl, avandia, acute myocardial infarction, ami, death, stroke, heart attack, heart failure, type ii diabetes, diabetes, north carolina state university, cleveland clinic, ldl cholesterol, cholesterol, exercise, medicare, anne phillips, robert misbin, rezulin, parke-davis, takeda pharmaceuticals, ppar-agonists, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists, smithkline beecham, glaxo wellcome, glaxosmithkline, fda, hepatotoxicity, liver toxicity

    • 0 Ratings
    • 267 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    waiting, today for the mail

    OCTOBER 17, 2011 1:04PM

    By karen_kay


    Topics: kids finally getting out of my house so i can stop watching cartoon network and begin watching whatever else is on at 9 am, test results, kidney failure, lung cancer, college

    • 2 Ratings
    • 773 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    I told them point blank, "I don't have Lupus!"

    NOVEMBER 10, 2009 6:10PM

    By BeverlyJRaffaele


    Topics: unbelief, belief, faith, denial, bio, lupus, sle, chronic illness, kidney failure

    • 2 Ratings
    • 307 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Day 6...Now its my husband and Dad...OMG!

    APRIL 14, 2010 9:00PM

    By Katherine Johnson


    Topics: elderly, kidney failure, kidney, elders, aging, elder care, sick, illness, dementia, diabetes, coughing, dying

    • 1 Ratings
    • 297 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    OK..Is he faking it or not?? Dad is playing me!!!

    APRIL 15, 2010 9:23PM

    By Katherine Johnson


    Topics: seniors, seniors citizens, health, family, old, elders, dementia, kidney failure, old people, aging, elder care

    • 1 Ratings
    • 278 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Dad is in the hospital and so is Kevin!

    MAY 1, 2010 7:27PM

    By Katherine Johnson


    Topics: dementia, senior citizens, elderly, parents, care giver, care takers, old, aging. family, parenting parents, kidney failure, dialysis

    • 1 Ratings
    • 275 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Much needed break...Whew...but not from Dad!

    APRIL 22, 2010 3:03PM

    By Katherine Johnson


    Topics: elderly, elders, old, aging, aarp, seniors, dementia, elderly parents, respite care, kidney, kidney failure, parents, dad, mom

    • 1 Ratings
    • 194 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Backon track...Day 7 and then there is Mom!

    APRIL 19, 2010 10:57PM

    By Katherine Johnson


    Topics: dad, father, mother, dying, death, kidney failure, kidney, elder care, seniors, old, aging, elderly

    • 1 Ratings
    • 201 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Multi-tasking to the hilt...I can handle ALL of this, Right?

    APRIL 13, 2010 10:45PM

    By Katherine Johnson


    Topics: elder care, old, elderly, respite care, aging, kidney failure

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