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(I'm just a little tired seeing the anti-iPhone coverage comments today.)]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/
I think this doc is working with Bin Laden...]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.flowbee.com/

You can't tell me that's not an at-home liposuction kit.]]>Jul 11th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/]]>Jul 11th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 11th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/
There is some pain in hemodialysis. Poking huge needles in your arm or having somebody else do it is no fun. However, several companies make special numbing creams that you can coat your arm with to minimize the pain. I avoid the needles entirely by being on PD.

Peritonitis is not such a big concern if you follow the techniques you're taught in training to the letter and do not cut corners. I am not really worried about it in my own case because I strictly follow what I was taught. There's a greater risk of infection from technicians and nurses cutting corners in a dialysis clinic. When you do dialysis at home, you're responsible.

I will be first in line for one of these portable kidneys when they are commercially available if I don't have a transplant by then, especially if they are smaller and lighter.

- a kidney patient]]>Jul 11th 2008 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/artificial-kidney-enables-dialysis-on-the-go/Jul 13th 2008 5:57PM