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NOTE Confidence: 0.7672944068908691

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My name is Demetrius.

NOTE Confidence: 0.5343786478042603

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I am an IKC patient at DaVita.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8141062259674072

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I'm Velma.

NOTE Confidence: 0.7856535911560059

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My husband is Demetrius.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8395373821258545

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Yeah, I found out I had kidney disease about six

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years ago.

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That's when I met him with Susan.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9150064587593079

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My name is Susan and I am a nurse case

NOTE Confidence: 0.9150064587593079

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manager with DaVita Integrated Kidney Care.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8073391914367676

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Things were good as far as Demetrius Simthelman knew before

NOTE Confidence: 0.8073391914367676

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the devastating diagnosis of kidney failure.

NOTE Confidence: 0.927746057510376

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And then he crashed into dialysis and everything changed.

NOTE Confidence: 0.7625046372413635

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Their world changed.

NOTE Confidence: 0.75614333152771

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I had 11 surgeries and my wife has been there

NOTE Confidence: 0.75614333152771

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with me for all my surgeries.

NOTE Confidence: 0.7959986329078674

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It looked at horrible before.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8972870111465454

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It looked at like we wouldn't be able to make

NOTE Confidence: 0.8972870111465454

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it to this point.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9243815541267395

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Where we at right now.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9457443952560425

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We never thought it would get better.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9243932366371155

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So as his sort of spiral down progressively got worse,

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Velma became more and more involved, which really it saved

NOTE Confidence: 0.9243932366371155

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his life.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8802047967910767

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I wouldn't have been able to make it without Miss

NOTE Confidence: 0.8802047967910767

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Susan encouraging me and keeping me going.

NOTE Confidence: 0.7276775240898132

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Oh, Miss Susan is my confidant.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8412567377090454

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She's just my she's just my heart.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9264453649520874

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She just, I love her.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9485676288604736

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We evaluate where they are, even mentally and emotionally, and

NOTE Confidence: 0.9485676288604736

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offer them the resources that they need to be their

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healthiest, their happiest out of the hospital and at home

NOTE Confidence: 0.9485676288604736

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as much as possible with their family.

NOTE Confidence: 0.8961081504821777

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They both kept me in line because it's easy to

NOTE Confidence: 0.8961081504821777

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fall out of line with all these limitations I'm going

NOTE Confidence: 0.8961081504821777

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through.

NOTE Confidence: 0.9101489186286926

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But it's for my good.

NOTE Confidence: 0.7646788358688354

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It's for my good.