Longtime dialysis patient studying to help others in same situation
All Alabama | Emily Hill
Neal Lowery of Stapleton, Ala., studies biology while having dialysis treatment. Lowery is attending Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette, and hopes to become a dialysis nurse so he can help others in the same situation. (Emily Hill/ehill@al.com)
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Neal Lowery and his father go to Fresenius Medical Care in Bay Minette to sit in a chair for four hours straight after they get hooked up to machines that filter and clean their blood. For Lowery, who has undergone dialysis for over half of his life, the process is as normal as eating or drinking.
Lowery, from Stapleton, Ala., doesn’t sit in the chair and fall asleep or watch television like most dialysis patients. Instead, he studies biology.
His endless battle with kidney failure started when he was 20 years old. During his senior year at North Baldwin Center for Technology, Lowery worked for the Baldwin County Board of Education doing audiovisual repair. He then transitioned to working on computer software, and worked in numerous schools installing programs. Near graduation time while Lowery was attending Bishop State’s Southwest Technical College, Lowery was at the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America national convention in Louisville, Ky., when he fell asleep. That was the first time he noticed his energy rapidly decreasing. Three months later, he found out his kidney was failing.
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Neal Lowery of Stapleton, Ala., studies biology while having dialysis treatment. Lowery is attending Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette, and hopes to become a dialysis nurse so he can help others in the same situation. (Emily Hill/ehill@al.com)
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Neal Lowery and his father go to Fresenius Medical Care in Bay Minette to sit in a chair for four hours straight after they get hooked up to machines that filter and clean their blood. For Lowery, who has undergone dialysis for over half of his life, the process is as normal as eating or drinking.
Lowery, from Stapleton, Ala., doesn’t sit in the chair and fall asleep or watch television like most dialysis patients. Instead, he studies biology.
His endless battle with kidney failure started when he was 20 years old. During his senior year at North Baldwin Center for Technology, Lowery worked for the Baldwin County Board of Education doing audiovisual repair. He then transitioned to working on computer software, and worked in numerous schools installing programs. Near graduation time while Lowery was attending Bishop State’s Southwest Technical College, Lowery was at the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America national convention in Louisville, Ky., when he fell asleep. That was the first time he noticed his energy rapidly decreasing. Three months later, he found out his kidney was failing.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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