"Eastern North Carolina has tons of people on dialysis,” said Arlette Whitaker, a dialysis nurse at ECU dialysis.
She knows exactly what her patients are going through.
“I’ve been on a transplant list since 2007, waiting patiently for a kidney,” said Whitaker.
She goes through dialysis 2-hours everyday.
"At first it was very hard I had to adjust my way of thinking, had to adjust my lifestyle, I had to make time for dialysis,” she explained.
She says it's allowed her to share a special bond with her patients
“That moment is usually when they're very frustrated, very overwhelmed and want to give up, then I have to tell them the story I know how you feel, 'you don't know how I feel unless you go though it' I’m going through it I know how you feel and this is what we go to do to get through it,” she said.
Read more & watch video: http://www2.wnct.com/news/2012/mar/02/dialysis-nurse-waiting-kidney-transplant-ar-1997520/
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