Function well. If that can be helped by the committee, that will be very helpful to mostly young patients. I would want to second that. I agree. I think if there could be because the specific needs of dialysis patients, it is such they are so unique to their disease in comparison to other disabilities. Also because its often so misunderstood by folks in the general public who again look at a person and they dont look like anything is wrong with them. Employment is a very big issue. I dont know if there could be a special department or some sort of support for folks who were on dialysis and either finding employment and also advocating for them with their employers as well that they are not being lazy, they are not cutting out of work early. There is a significant disability that they are coping with that is preventing them from working a normal schedule. That would be very helpful finding employment as well. Transportation absolutely and i would add greater access to Mental Health care
40s, 50s who have jobs that they theoretically can continue to do very well. There are sedentary jobs and counselors and so on. When these people dielz most function well. If that can be helped by the committee, that will be very helpful to mostly young patients. I would want to second that. I agree. I think if there could be because the specific needs of dialysis patients, it is such they are so unique to their disease in comparison to other disabilities. Also because its often so misunderstood by folks in the general public who again look at a person and they dont look like anything is wrong with them. Employment is a very big issue. I dont know if there could be a special department or some sort of support for folks who were on dialysis and either finding employment and also advocating for them with their employers as well that they are not being lazy, they are not cutting out of work early. There is a significant disability that they are coping with that is preventing them from wor
Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to thank our councilman kostanian for bringing this to council today. Your leadership and showing us not only the personal side of this issue but also the medical and social side has really helped us all understand a little bit more about your experience and also more about what we as a department and the council might be able to do to support you and others. So thank you. I would also like to mention that there are pamphlets and booklets and sheets of information about Kidney Disease on dialysis on the table. Please help yourself. Do we have any Public Comment . Anyone on the bridge line . No . Sure. Councilmember kostanian, part of the reason why you are bringing forward this issue today. I know in the past Council Meetings there have been discussions around transportation for dialysis patients, also with a possibility of them transferring to laguna honda. Can you speak on that as well . I just came off dialysis earlier today so im not with it all today.
Know if there could be a special department or some sort of support for folks who were on dialysis and either finding employment and also advocating for them with their employers as well that they are not being lazy, they are not cutting out of work early. There is a significant disability that they are coping with that is preventing them from working a normal schedule. That would be very helpful finding employment as well. Transportation absolutely and i would add greater access to Mental Health care and on going and more long term. Thank you. Any other comment from staff . Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to thank our councilman kostanian for bringing this to council today. Your leadership and showing us not only the personal side of this issue but also the medical and social side has really helped us all understand a little bit more about your experience and also more about what we as a department and the council might be able to do to support you and others. So thank you. I would also
Their employers as well that they are not being lazy, they are not cutting out of work early. There is a significant disability that they are coping with that is preventing them from working a normal schedule. That would be very helpful finding employment as well. Transportation absolutely and i would add greater access to Mental Health care and on going and more long term. Thank you. Any other comment from staff . Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to thank our councilman kostanian for bringing this to council today. Your leadership and showing us not only the personal side of this issue but also the medical and social side has really helped us all understand a little bit more about your experience and also more about what we as a department and the council might be able to do to support you and others. So thank you. I would also like to mention that there are pamphlets and booklets and sheets of information about Kidney Disease on dialysis on the table. Please help yourself. Do we have an