Saturday, August 21, 2010 - Chapter Meeting
1 pm to 3 pm
Center for Community Cooperation
2900 Live Oak
Dallas, TX 75204
"Your Diet Makes a Difference at all Stages of PKD" Our guest speaker, Carolyn Cochran, RD/LD, MS, CDE, will lead a discussion in nutrition management and the importance of diet for people living with PKD. Learn how your diet can help control your blood pressure and why it’s important to control your blood pressure if you have PKD. We will also learn to calculate and track protein needs along with the different nutrition care for early stages of PKD, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and post-transplantation.
As the function of our kidneys change, altering our diet is necessary. Carolyn Cochran is one of the most knowledgeable people in the renal nutrition fi eld. Learn what to eat, how much and when. If you have been putting this subject off, please come and learn.
Saturday, October 2, 2010 - Chapter Meeting
1 pm to 3 pm
Center for Community Cooperation
2900 Live Oak
Dallas, TX 75204
Don't miss our meeting entitled, "Get Answers: Straight Talk About Chronic Kidney Disease From a Social Work Perspective." Our guest speaker will be Mary Beth Callahan, ASCW/LMSW-ACP.
Bring your questions...questions about how to pay, where to go or how to live with chronic kidney disease. What does having or not having insurance do for me with kidney disease? What government insurance coverage is available and when do I quailify? What resources are available to me and how do I locate them?