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What
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Burning
or difficulty urinating
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Increase
in frequency of urination
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Bloody
urine
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High
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All
programs are available to patients throughout Maine through collaborative
efforts with renal social workers at all dialysis units.
Services include:
KEEP
Dates
Kidneys in the Classroom
Scholarship Program
People Like Us
Live
Family Camp
KEEP
 Come
find out if you have a reason to be concerned about your kidney's
operational status. There is a KEEP happening in an area near you!
What are the chances that
you've got kidney disease and don't know it?
Pretty high actually!
1 in 9 people over the age of 20 in our state does!
Find out if you are one of the nine!
Call me-1.800.639.7220 to find out
when we are in your town.
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Kidneys
in the Classroom
 Are
you a teacher that would like to have a classroom presentation on
kidney function and failure?
Join the list of other schools that have participated.
Need
more information? Let your finger do the clicking.
Scholarship
Program
National
Kidney Foundation of Maine is pleased to offer scholarships opportunities
to ALL kidney patients (dialysis patients, kidney transplant recipients
or newly diagnosed patients who are in early intervention programs),
as well as immediate family members of patients in the state of
Maine.
Applications
are available through Dialysis Unit Social Workers and the NKFM
office. The deadline for scholarship applications is May 15th of
each year. For more information call the NKFM office at 800-639-7220.
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People
Like Us Live!
Need
to find out what is going to happen when you start dialysis?
Every year, Amgen works with us to provide educational materials
to new patients of Chronic Kidney Disease. If you would like more
information on what is happening after you leave your doctor, please
call us for more information. I'd be happy to send you information.
See what NKF says
about this program
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Give
the Gift that Keeps on Living
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70,000
Americans are currently waiting for a transplant
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17
people die every day waiting
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Fill
out an organ donor card
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Discuss
your wishes with your family members and
sign the card in front of a witness
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Carry
the card in your wallet
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Talk
to others about Organ & Tissue Donation
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