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- Title: Her Kidneys Failed, Her Body Rejected Two Transplants, She has Spent About 10 Years Depending on a Machine - and Now She has the Strength to be on both Sides of Dialysis (Daily Break)
- Author : The Virginian Pilot
- Release Date : January 26, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 92 KB
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A room of her own should have been nirvana. [paragraph] April Wiggins was 15, the oldest of four girls. But in her case, the privacy came at a steep price. Two years earlier, she'd been diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that had ruined her kidneys. [paragraph] The specially vented bedroom was needed for her dialysis machine. [paragraph] Every night, she hooked herself up at 8 p.m. so the machine could cleanse her blood of toxins during the next 10 hours. [paragraph] She couldn't go out with friends, or on dates, and even felt isolated from her own family as she retreated to her room. [paragraph] Two decades later, she's still in that world of dialysis. [paragraph] Now 37, the Chesapeake woman knows the persistence of waiting for a kidney transplant, the elation of being free from the machine, the heartache of coming back when the kidneys fail again. [paragraph] She knows the camaraderie of other patients sitting next to her in dialysis centers, the hope that tethers them to the machines, the help she now gives when she tends to them as a dialysis nurse, when she's not hooked up to the machine herself. | See Dialysis, Page 8 Wiggins lives on both sides of a procedure that a growing number of people are experiencing across the country.