Dialysis
Dialysis
Dialysis
What is that
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It's a procedure to remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly
They have to take your blood out
Clean it put it back in
You experience the chills
And sometimes it leaves you in
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Categories:
dialysis, age, art,
Form: Free verse
Life of a Dialysis Patient
I wake up early Monday morning
still cold and dark outside
eat my breakfast, take my pills
sit and wait for my ride,
arrive at the center
get comfortable in my chair
like I do 3 times a week
thankful t hat I'm there
I come to every treatment
I never show up late
I eat a healthy diet
and watch my fluid intake
This isn't the
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Categories:
dialysis, family, life, sick,
Form: Rhyme
From Healthy To Dialysis
Life was beautiful
Typical teenager
Junior year 2003
Living life’
Walking the halls
Feeling confident
One morning
Walking up the stairs
Lost my breath
Fighting for air
Went to the clinic
Test said negative
Wish it would’ve been positive
Second opinion
UTI
I would’ve accepted that
Day before thanksgiving
Wasn’t feeling thankful
My body was dying
Drowning in its toxins
I woke to a blurry worry
I could hear
But my
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Categories:
dialysis, black african american, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Dialysis
I walk with my sister and we are young
And her knees are less broken; they swallow
petrel calls and soon we are
equivalent. I call these my oceans. I
shriek with my sister, we wished the
evenings would take our wolf-like sounds
and make us un-speeched.
We are straight and know the meaning of
artificiality. It is this:
jingoism, pesticide,
beaches
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Categories:
dialysis, absence, beach, beauty, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Dialysis
(This is a fictional poem)
I have to come here continuously to be on dialysis.
My kidneys are no longer good and I really hate this.
Several of my relatives could've donated a kidney but they all said no.
I've always been good to them and when they refused, it was pretty low.
When my brother had an accident last
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Categories:
dialysis, brother, family, loss, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse