Kidney Disease Solution - Does It really Work? - The Scarborough Hospital - Chronic Kidney Disease Program

Kidney Disease Solution - Does It really Work?




Hello everybody. This is Zach Parks and I
wanted to give you an update on my kidney
lab results kidney disease solution. The last
video I did showed a real good improvement.
A lot of you were encouraged by that and asked
me to continue doing these videos and I realized
this morning that I had not done a video since
I got my last test results way back in September
a couple of months ago.
So I apologize for the delay but I wanted
to do this video and just show you where things
stand with my lab results.
So I am going to sign on here to my Kaiser
account and of course that is blurred out
for obvious privacy reasons and we will make
our way over to the test results.
There they are. OK. So we arere going to take
a look on the results from September 23rd
and we are going to look at the creatinine
and the GFR which are the two primary indicators
in terms of kidney health.
OK. We are going to move this up and we are
going to do a graph which is the best way
obviously to carefully track your results
and move this up again. As you can see, the
last video I did right here was in April.
My creatinine was 1.6 and in September improved
even more down to 1.58.
Now in the case of creatinine, which you probably
already know, around 1 or 1.2 is normal. Now
most kidney patients with chronic kidney disease
are probably never going to get down to that
area, but of course you want to control your
creatinine and to see a continued decrease
is what you want to see here. So another improvement.
Now GFR is the other key important indicator
of your overall kidney health and function.
In April 1, I did the last video. It was 43
and it has improved up to 44. So again, all
improving here and improving here. This is
the key date right here where my kidney health
started to deteriorate back in May of 2012
and I made some lifestyle changes and as a
result of doing that, I have seen just great
improvement. I really impressed my doctor
with this and of course I can not tell you
how happy I am because I want to do everything
I can to keep my kidney healthy.
So that is the latest. I want to give you
an update. My next lab tests are scheduled
for March and I will do another video for
you then. Again I apologize for the delay.
It completely slipped my mind but I will keep
you posted in March when I get it.
Now if you are interested in more information
about the lifestyle changes that I made using
the kidney disease solution, just click on
the link in the video. It will take you to
the page that will give you more information.
So that is it for now. I wish you the best
of luck in treating and controlling your kidney
disease. Thanks a lot.



The Scarborough Hospital - Chronic Kidney Disease Program




The Scarborough Hospital Regional Program
is very unique as it remains in-centre in
the hospital. We have three other satellites.
We have one sattellite specifically in a chronic
care hospital so we can dialyse people right
in the hospital so we don't have to ship them
out. We have three, what we call home-units,
actually in nursing homes so patients don't
have to leave the nursing home to be dialyzed.
And this is the work we want to do -- preventative
work so hopefully they never have to get on
to dialysis.
Our program is called the Chronic Kidney Disease
Program. The majority of our patients that
come to us are not on dialysis, and we are
the first ones who see the patients as they
come into the program. Usually when they come
see us they see a nurse and a dietitian or
a diabetes nurse specialist. We give them
the tools and the strategies to keep their
kidney function working well.
What we do is we try to give the patients
enough equipment, tools, information to let
themselves direct their care as they're in
the community. Remember these patients are
not sick, they're not in the hospital -- they're
in the community.
We just want them to be independent, so if
we can keep that kidney function good we can
prevent them from going on to the next stage.
It's much more cost-effective to treat them
as an outpatient and prevent them from being
admitted to the hospital.
We are at the north wing of hemodialysis right
now. The hospital location of hemodialysis
hosts about 300 patients every two days, every
48 hours. We are at the point where we are
over capacity. To actually offer a patient
a dialysis treatment it's over $100 dollars
just for one treatment. And that's something
a lot of patients need at least three times
a week -- dialysis.
Having a community satellite dialysis unit
is so important for the patients. The challenge
that we have here, as you can see, is actually
tightness of space. Being here the patient
has the flexibility of working during the
day and then in the evening come here for
their dialysis treatment.
I started dialysis here in 2006, in February.
Thank God we have dialysis here -- I'm still
alive today. It's something good. Today I'm
doing dialysis and I don't do much, but the
next day is normal. Go out for coffee, go
out with my wife. I have no problem. I feel
stronger. We're all one big family here. I
know all the nurses and they know everyone
around. It's very nice.
The nursing staff here are excellent. They
provide the best of nursing care to the patients.
So having a community dialysis setting it
actually helps to accommodate their everyday
lifestyle. So my ideal dream would be to build
a unit where it's more spacious to prevent
any kind of cross contamination between patients.
This is the Yee Hong hemodialysis unit, one
of the three satellite sites The Scarborough
Hospital has. It's the same size as the other
dialysis unit, but as you can see it's quite
spacious in between each dialysis machine
and ultimately this would be the gold standard
of a hemodialysis unit.
You're here three times a week, four hours
a day. This place here, this is the best place
to be. It's quiet, it's clean, it's spotless.
The nurses can't do enough for you. They bend
over backwards for you to explain things and
the way they treat you is fantastic.
A lot of the doctors look after patients who
come to them when they have a problem. It's
very episodic. For us, we are kind of married
to our patients. When they start to have a
problem, they get on dialysis and we follow
them through. They come and interact with
us when they are well, and we look after them
when they are sick. We suffer with them emotionally
and we feel happy with them when things are
going well. If we can build a home-base for
doing all the things that we can do, that
would be very, very fulfilling.
I would never have thought before that I'd
be here, but the thing is you have to go through
something like this and you realize yes, you
can help people and that life is good if you
can help somebody. I don't know, you go around
and you see a lot of young people, they go
through that. It's not nice.