Home dialysis machine is her 'boyfriend'
Only 13 per cent of people receiving dialysis are on peritoneal dialysis, but this treatment can improve quality of life for more
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Ms Irene Tam jokes that she hooked up with a new "boyfriend" in February last year. She means the automated peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine she hooks herself up to for nine hours every night to draw out waste materials from her blood.
"I call my machine my new boyfriend who always sleeps with me," she says with a laugh.