Thanksgiving for Dialysis

5. Patient care _____ the person who hooks you up to your dialysis machine
6. ____ is a bright green fruit with a large pit and dark leathery skin that is very high in potassium
7. Temporary access site that enters directly into the patient's heart
10. Season for harvesting
11. Patients come to dialysis for _______.
13. Bright orange squash used to make pie
16. primary kidney doctor
19. You are a dialysis _________
20. The traditional holiday bird
21. What you wash your hands with each and every time!
22. connects a selected artery and a vein directly
27. condition that develops when your blood produces a lower-then-normal amount of healthy red blood cells
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
30. Waste product that comes from the digestion of protein your food and the normal breakdown of muscle tissue
31. is defined as the way or mode in which something is done, for example home dialysis is one ____ of dialysis treatment
32. Put (food) into the mouth, chew, and swallow it
33. does the work for your kidneys, removing waste products and excess fluid from the blood
35. Starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas
37. first Village established by the Pilgrims
38. Country the Pilgrims left behind
39. The 4th Thursday of November

1. an essential grain in the New World diet
2. An anticoagulant used to decrease the clotting ability of the blood and help prevent harmful clots from forming in blood vessels
3. Process by which a small plastic tube (cannula) in inserted into a peripheral vein
4. Found mostly in fruits, vegetables, and dairy. Excess is dangers for dialysis patients
8. ____ is swelling caused by too much fluid trapped in the body's tissues
9. Symbol of abundance and nourishment
12. When the pressure in your blood vessels are too high
14. Connects the artery and vein indirectly, through a tube
15. Where you come to treatment
17. The Pilgrim's boat
18. Person in charge of the treatment floor
19. what early American settlers were called
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
24. Gathering of crops
25. Red edible berry of the plant Solanum
26. Group of people at DaVita who take care of all aspects of a patient's treatment
29. chemical element of salt, no patients wants excess of this
34. term for how well your dialysis treatment goes
36. protein made by your liver
37. ____are made up of building blocks called amino acids