Envisioning Protection for my Kidneys

When you see me going through surgery, please see my kidneys being fully protected. Just as with the angiogram that I had a little over a week ago, bypass surgery is often damaging to the kidneys, as they do not like the way blood flows to them during surgery. (During open-heart surgery, a machine does the heart's work, and it doesn't pump the same way that the heart does.) Any further deterioration of the kidneys would most likely necessitate hemodialysis done in a clinic rather than a continuation of the at-home peritoneal dialysis I am currently doing.