“Dialysis is not living, but survival”
In this video Jochem Boom (23) tells his story. Jochem was born without kidneys. If you don’t have kidneys, your blood is polluted by waste products. They have to come out or else you will die.
In this video Jochem Boom (23) tells his story. Jochem was born without kidneys. If you don’t have kidneys, your blood polluted by waste. They have to come out, otherwise you will die.
Jochem: “All my life I have been in hospital and out of hospital. My donor kidney was rejected when I was thirteen. I have now been waiting for a donor kidney for ten years and dialysis the only way to survive. The last two years of high school, I went to the AMC five times a week for dialysis. I usually did schoolwork in the hospital. It took me two years to get my final exams.”
In addition to being a kidney patient, Jochem is also just a 23-year-old boy who studies and has one great passion: pop music.
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