• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    My mom just read me a text message she got from her half-sister who is in stage 4 renal failure (or something imminently fatal like that, although I’ve been hearing this for about 10 years now). I was feeling sorry for her until my mom got to the point where she said she was “looking forward to meeting Jesus and Charlie Kirk”.

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      I would just reply with “Bitch, you’re going to hell, you’re only meeting Charlie Kirk there.”

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          18 hours ago

          I swear, if Hell could be livestreamed on Twitch I bet it would have 500k+ views every day just from people watching Thatcher, Nixon and Reagan burning in there.

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      18 hours ago

      Adults with the mental disorder called religion need treatment, preferably medicated to the nostrils.

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      Ignoring your actual point, something like end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis has a life expectancy of around 5 years, but even 10+ years on dialysis is not unheard of.

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          As I said when I got a text saying “don’t send A g money to your dad”: “It won’t be long now. Everything evolving him will be over shortly.”

          Everyone in his generation was a little miffed. Everyone in my generation was all “yup.”

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        They really don’t have people on dialysis that long anymore. My best friend is currently on dialysis.

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          15 hours ago

          Different sites will have different patient populations, but large cohort data shows 5 year survival rate of ~40% and 10-year survival rate of ~10%. Not common, but not particularly unusual.

          Reference figure 3