Reflection: GIN Dialysis Center 2nd visit

Last week, I had second visit to the dialysis center. At first meeting, I went to a place where they have the filter and the dialysis machine for the dialysis patients. There, I learned about what 'dialysis' is about, and how patients in Baguio suffer from this disease due to lack of finance. I learned the costs for the filters and the machine, and our group discussed about the ways that we can give help, as much as possible. From the discussion, we figured out that of course financial problem is something that should be solved first, but what is also important is being aware of the disease and the people by ourselves, and spread out about this to the people, so that they can get help from others too.

Then, next meeting, we went to the dialysis center in Kisad road to meet the patients and spend time with them. I talked with a guy, who got dialysis just 2 weeks ago. He told us that he needs to spend 4 hours per a session of blood filtering. He said that he really likes our project because he was very bored to stay for 4 hours just getting the blood filtered, and wanted someone beside him to entertain him. Listening to what he said, I thought that this project, though seems simple, is still significant to some people.

Since we were not prepared to do anything, we just talked, but it was not easy to continuously talk with him because he was getting his blood filtered. We basically shared our names, ages and he shared us about his experience as a dialysis patient. It was a meaningful time that I was able to share thoughts and make them to not feel bored about it. I learned that dialysis patient, not only needs financial support, but also needs attention from other people, and thought that I could help them through visiting the dialysis center regularly, and entertaining the patients while getting their blood filtered