Thanksgiving for Dialysis

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Across
  1. 5. Patient care _____ the person who hooks you up to your dialysis machine
  2. 6. ____ is a bright green fruit with a large pit and dark leathery skin that is very high in potassium
  3. 7. Temporary access site that enters directly into the patient's heart
  4. 10. Season for harvesting
  5. 11. Patients come to dialysis for _______.
  6. 13. Bright orange squash used to make pie
  7. 16. primary kidney doctor
  8. 19. You are a dialysis _________
  9. 20. The traditional holiday bird
  10. 21. What you wash your hands with each and every time!
  11. 22. connects a selected artery and a vein directly
  12. 27. condition that develops when your blood produces a lower-then-normal amount of healthy red blood cells
  13. 28. help to pass excess certain products (ex. phosphorous or potassium) out of the body, in the stool, reducing the amount of products that get into the blood
  14. 30. Waste product that comes from the digestion of protein your food and the normal breakdown of muscle tissue
  15. 31. is defined as the way or mode in which something is done, for example home dialysis is one ____ of dialysis treatment
  16. 32. Put (food) into the mouth, chew, and swallow it
  17. 33. does the work for your kidneys, removing waste products and excess fluid from the blood
  18. 35. Starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas
  19. 37. first Village established by the Pilgrims
  20. 38. Country the Pilgrims left behind
  21. 39. The 4th Thursday of November
Down
  1. 1. an essential grain in the New World diet
  2. 2. An anticoagulant used to decrease the clotting ability of the blood and help prevent harmful clots from forming in blood vessels
  3. 3. Process by which a small plastic tube (cannula) in inserted into a peripheral vein
  4. 4. Found mostly in fruits, vegetables, and dairy. Excess is dangers for dialysis patients
  5. 8. ____ is swelling caused by too much fluid trapped in the body's tissues
  6. 9. Symbol of abundance and nourishment
  7. 12. When the pressure in your blood vessels are too high
  8. 14. Connects the artery and vein indirectly, through a tube
  9. 15. Where you come to treatment
  10. 17. The Pilgrim's boat
  11. 18. Person in charge of the treatment floor
  12. 19. what early American settlers were called
  13. 23. Located just below the rib cage, one on each side of your spine, healthy ones filter about half a cup of blood every minute, removing wastes and extra water to make urine
  14. 24. Gathering of crops
  15. 25. Red edible berry of the plant Solanum
  16. 26. Group of people at DaVita who take care of all aspects of a patient's treatment
  17. 29. chemical element of salt, no patients wants excess of this
  18. 34. term for how well your dialysis treatment goes
  19. 36. protein made by your liver
  20. 37. ____are made up of building blocks called amino acids