Nothing could be more exciting for a dialysis patient than a dialysis that he knows it will make him clean and well. I do not mind the pain of the cannulation as my skin is already numbed with it. The prick of an injection subcutaneously is even more painful more often than the prick of the dialysis needles which are big a terrifying indeed to look at.
I never look at the needles when they would start to prick me, the fright never ceases but fortunately it is not that painful as it looks because the arteriovenous vein that they are pricking through is more often below a thin skin so the needle really doesn't go through a thick skin.
The site on my battered skin that they prick over and over again gets desensitized already that it becomes numbed because of the destruction of the nerve endings over there, so the prick is very tolerable. I am just not looking over when the nurses begins to clean my arm for the cannulation, it is still frightening for me.
In my center the new nurses are already good at their pricking job so I am happy with that, only they have the passed-on habit of returning the blood of the patient and stopping the dialysis session the moment that the patient's blood pressure drops considerably, they do not work it out until the patient just finishes the session so it is a bad thing for the patient.
But nonetheless I am nit much affected by that because of the efficiency that my dialyzer (the blood filter) is doing for my blood and thank God I was able to access that dialyzer so I can enjoy a good cleaning unlike before. So I just hope that today's dialysis runs smoothly again and that my BP won't fall down.
I am also thankful that I am not breathless lately, again maybe due to the hot and humid weather as it makes me perspire more despite I am drinking fluids more too, a reason to celebrate.