First, the bad stuff. A very hard week. Stress of IV feeding on my body has triggered a terrible rheumatoid arthritis flare.

So I plan to have a slow hospital weekend. I intend to read, to write, but, if I feel like it, to sleep.

To counter the dangerous fluid overload, I will up my dialysis schedule to 5 days per week.

The level of pain in my neck and skull base from this rheumatoid arthritis flare made me vomit, twice.

Re fluid: I worked out that I need to take off almost 4L every other day. This is an infeasible amount to manage on dialysis. If you pull that much fluid off in one go, you just feel terrible. We have a new plan now.