Great post on a topic we are discussing quite a lot: Nocturnal Dialysis. Thanks, Greg!!

Big D and Me

Kevin Collins emailed me the other day, to follow up on my post about the Nocturnal Dialysis service being offered by the Diaverum Dialysis Unit at North Melbourne.  In it I said that nocturnal dialysis started in Australia in Geelong in the late ‘90s.  But no! There was much work done and quite a story before that.  A story that is well worth sharing.

Kevin is a very interesting guy.  He was born in 1963 with Alport Syndrome, a genetic disorder which results in end-stage kidney disease and hearing and vision difficulties.  His kidneys started failing when he was 3.5 years old,

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