The life of Vasile Ciornei, a 59-year-old man from Iasi, changed completely eight years ago, when he received some difficult news from the doctors.
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The man found out he has chronic kidney disease and needs a kidney transplant to live a normal life again. Until this is possible, his only chance is long dialysis sessions, which have completely changed his life and habits.
The news that completely changed the life of the man from Iasi
The life of Vasile Ciornei, a 59-year-old man, depends, for more than eight years, on the dialysis sessions he follows. The kidney disease he has prevents him from leading a normal life and he had to give up a lot of things in order to continue being with his family.
Even if this method prolongs life, very often it happens that the treatment visibly decreases its quality.
According to medical staff, a patient who is dependent on dialysis loses three days out of a week for this excruciating process, being transported to the hospital, where he is subjected to sessions lasting four hours each.
“It is quite difficult to come three times a week to do these dialysis sessions, which last four hours each. I had to give up many things, the service I had for life. I worked as a security guard, I come from the country. My health no longer allowed me to work, I was left without activity. I had to give up a lot of things I was doing, dialysis takes up a lot of time. It's hard, it's excruciating, but it saves our lives. I hope for a miracle, I hope that a donor will be found, because no one compatible has been identified in the family“, said the 59-year-old man.
Go ahead for children and grandchildren
Even though he is aware that his life has changed radically from the moment he received the news from the doctors and that the hopes of a transplant decrease from day to day, the man from Iasi County claims that he will continue to fight to be with his family.
“For the children, for the grandchildren, for them I fight and try to be well. I want to be with them for many years to come and that is why I hope that one day I will get a call and be called for a transplant. Until then, I continue dialysis, I don't show them how much I suffer, that it is suffering. I enjoy the time I have with them“, Vasile Ciornei also told.
Thousands of people are waiting for a miracle
In Romania, over ten thousand people live thanks to dialysis sessions. It is about patients with severe kidney diseases, who are waiting for a miracle to happen and benefit from a kidney transplant.
“Chronic dialysis is an invention through which medicine responded to a need, in the sense that when the kidneys no longer work, this dialysis machine manages to take over the function of the organs. Then, the kidney function is supplemented until it is possible to perform a kidney transplant. In some cases, some patients end up on dialysis for the rest of their lives. A patient in a chronic dialysis program will have three sessions a week, four hours each session. Thus, 12 hours of dialysis per week are reached“, stated the medical personnel.
