Dialysis Poems - Poems about Dialysis

Dialysis Dialysis What is that Let's do some research Get a few facts 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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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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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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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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(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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