As a former biomed engineer in Haemodialysis, 18 years, although peritoneal dialysis offers more freedom, the opportunity for a major infection is significantly higher. There are many places which only pay for PD. If you are involved with either a hospital or an outpatient clinic, the social worker should be able to help you make arrangements to travel.

Despite the report cited above, Hemo patients have been known to survive for more than 40 years of treatment. I have known several of them. One of them was a physician who went back to the death committees of the 60's as a teenager. He was the first dialysis patient to go to medical school while being treated. He died within a year of his wife's death. I believe he lost the will to live.

Most renal patients get to live a long and full life even though they have to schedule their lives around their treatment.

If you are in an area which allows it, you can get set up for home hemo. You will either have to have a trained technician come in or have you significant other available to do the job 3x weekly. If you do not skimp on your times, you can live long and prosper.