Welcome to the Hope Week 2024 Exhibit Hall
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More Resources for People Who Have Kidney Disease
This user-friendly dashboard presents data about kidney transplants, on both the national and state levels. With an interactive map, people can click on their state to see information about each transplant center. The dashboard shows how many people are active on the waiting list in your geographical area, what type of solid organ donation transplants each center performs, and the number of kidney transplants done by each hospital.
Through the experience of hosting many support groups, RSN has learned that it is important to have a strong leader with compassion and patience who can help keep the group on track. This allows meetings to be productive, helpful, and hopeful.
RSN’s series of topical Zoom meetings are informative and so much fun! Topics include the kidney diet, exercise, hobbies and more. This is a great way to connect with others living with kidney disease, make new friends and learn new things from others who have been there. Join us, there are no fees to attend!
If you are curious what doing dialysis at home might be like, these two videos are for you! Watch as Rachel Cluthe of Houston, TX, and Kristin Rice of Baltimore, MD share a candid look behind the scenes during home hemodialysis and peritoneal treatments.
We created a tool to help you get started on planning your treatment space using your own room size and furniture. Our guide comes with a printable PDF with a blank room layout grid and mock-up scaled to the grid for just about everything you might have in a living room or bedroom plus standard home dialysis machines.
Knowledge is power! RSN’s Nutritional Information Database is a great resource for people who have chronic kidney disease, are on dialysis, or have a kidney transplant and their families. This list is for people who like to prepare their own food from raw ingredients found at the grocery store. Here you will find the amount of sodium, potassium, phosphorus, fat, calories and more that is in just about anything you would want to stock in your pantry to make your own healthy meals.
The kidney diet (renal diet) can be one of the most challenging aspects of living with chronic kidney disease. Not only do you need to determine, with the help of a dietitian, what foods are good (and bad) for you, but then come up with meals that are satisfying and enjoyable as well. We’ve compiled a collection of recipes that we find are tasty, but also kidney-friendly.
If you have been told that you can’t have pets because of kidney disease take heart! you CAN keep your pets as longs as you take precautions to avoid infection. Here is a collection of articles, podcasts and videos that explain it all.
Depression and anger are normal responses to living with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Our emotions typically are triggered because of a fear of the unknown and how living with CKD will affect our lives and those that we love. Here is a collection of tools, articles and podcasts by and for those who have kidney disease and are struggling with depression.