Being a dialysis patient and its effects to my immediate family, My way of enduring severe cramps while on dialysis

From the early times of being a dialysis patient, it was my other brother that supports me financially, together with my mother, they would get involved in taking a loan from our loan shark neighbor so that I can at least go for a six dialysis sessions per month. Even my mother at one point would think about selling appliances from the house, so while she was saying it my eldest brother protested because of course it directly would affect him. I feel so sorry about my siblings during that time because they are still at college and the time that my eldest brother decided to take a degree for learning to be a teacher while my sister was taking a course for the same degree which she doesn't like in the first place because my parents cannot afford to send her to take the course that she wants from private universities lest we will not eat due to lack of budget.

As for myself I can't do anything about my situation except to try in making myself better in anyway possible and trying not to think about my condition. I am just thankful that in my earlier years I am able to get to consume a liberal amounts of fluids to be taken out from my body and it helped me to survive because I know that it played a vital role about my survival which I am still managing until now and it did helped my physical heart to retain its integrity from the years of being a dialysis patient as shown by my latest test results prior to my surgery last year regarding the repair of my AV fistula thanks be to God.

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There isn't much support coming in except from my family that loves me from whatever they can do because they can only do much because of the gravity of my situation and condition. In the end, I was able to free all of us from financial burdens thanks be to God,

I also was able to survive a once a week dialysis session, that experience was indeed a hell on earth because in all of the instances before five days I would already feel stiff and will incapable of doing anything, I am already sick to my stomach waiting for the seventh day to get dialyzed. Within that situation, my body would become somewhat paralyzed already because I cannot move due to the toxins in my body but I can still move regardless. However, my weight would exceed 6 kilos of excess water build-up in between dialysis sessions which I will tell my nurses then to take-out from my body. Thankfully there isn't much issue about that so my nurses from that dialysis clinic would take it out.

The removal of excess fluid was so rapid that it was causing me a very bad case of cramping. I have to fight it off rather than to complain about it because if I tell it to my nurses I would be risking myself for not getting adequately dialyzed well with regards to fluid removal and because I needed a full session to get completed because I was not dialyzed for the whole week before. In turn, I would sweat bricks trying to endure the worst case of cramps all over my body. I have learned the technique of trying to control severe cramps by not moving at all, I mean zero movements or I will risk in triggering cramps in my legs. If a leg cramp would happen, I would counter the it by moving my foot up the opposite way so that I can be able to fight it off just for the sake of completing my dialysis session. If I would let the cramps progress especially in my legs, then I will survive the session. Countering the contraction of the muscles in my legs, arms and belly is indeed a fight to remember, now even if a cramp would happen I already know what to do but now it rarely happens.

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My efforts for managing my condition had lead me to survive many years of being a dialysis patient and it is a peculiar achievement which inspires co-patients for thinking that tit is not a death sentence but a challenge to fight with, well for many, until the end.