Missing Portland woman found dead

The comment  "natural causes" gave me pause. It was too quick. Our men in Blue are not experienced in determining this nor is ambulance personnel. Lately, in my experience with medical cover-ups...this smells.

I'm a dialysis patient with cancer and I can tell anyone that dialysis is a living hell. If I had to choose between the cancer treatment or dialysis, I'd take the chemo hands down. Not only does dialysis cause a host of of it's own health problems, but it leaves you horribly sick most of the time. By the time you recover from a session (which takes 4-5 hours every other day) it's time to get another session.

 

Elizabeth was doing at-home dialysis which means that as far as renal failure goes, she was maintaining her health well enough that she could be up and about - even if only barely. Renal failure makes you super sensitive to drugs, to foods containing potassium and phosphorus, to water weight, etc. I can't speculate on the cause of her death, but it doesn't seem likely that her kidneys failed right there in the car unless she had a reaction to something.

 

For example, if you ingest too much potassium (bananas, chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes, etc) you can have a heart attack and die. No one likes to talk about it but the suicide rate among dialysis patients is very high. An easy way to end one's life in that situation is to just eat of bunch of potassium and wait for the heart failure.

 

I would argue that this is not self-inflicted. It just doesn't add up. The story doesn't reveal her cause of death and maybe it's nobody's business.

 

For whatever fool tried to throw a political grenade in here about the state of modern healthcare, it's important to know that by having end-stage renal failure diagnosis you immediately qualify for Social Security / Medicare and have since the 1960s. Why? A couple of reasons: (a)  Nobody can afford it. It doesn't help that there are only two nationwide companies that provide nearly all dialysis.  Once these two companies established territories, the prices shot right up even further. It's a cozy duopoly. (b) the average life span of a renal patient is very short and almost always ends in death. A few people manage to do well with it, but most do not.

 

It's a hideous, painful existence. If you want to see for yourself just take a peep at a clinic and look at all the people with missing limbs, blindness, cancer, severe infections, and you'll see how grotesque it is.

 

For Elizabeth, I empathize with her and her family. The fact that she tried so hard to stay alive and take care of her family while spending twelve hours a day hooked up to a blood-sucking robot is nothing short of heroic.

 

 

I'm a dialysis patient with cancer and I can tell anyone that dialysis is a living hell. If I had to choose between the cancer treatment or dialysis, I'd take the chemo hands down. Not only does dialysis cause a host of of it's own health problems, but it leaves you horribly sick most of the time. By the time you recover from a session (which takes 4-5 hours every other day) it's time to get another session.

 

Elizabeth was doing at-home dialysis which means that as far as renal failure goes, she was maintaining her health well enough that she could be up and about - even if only barely. Renal failure makes you super sensitive to drugs, to foods containing potassium and phosphorus, to water weight, etc. I can't speculate on the cause of her death, but it doesn't seem likely that her kidneys failed right there in the car unless she had a reaction to something.

 

For example, if you ingest too much potassium (bananas, chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes, etc) you can have a heart attack and die. No one likes to talk about it but the suicide rate among dialysis patients is very high. An easy way to end one's life in that situation is to just eat of bunch of potassium and wait for the heart failure.

 

I would argue that this is not self-inflicted. It just doesn't add up. The story doesn't reveal her cause of death and maybe it's nobody's business.

 

For whatever fool tried to throw a political grenade in here about the state of modern healthcare, it's important to know that by having end-stage renal failure diagnosis you immediately qualify for Social Security / Medicare and have since the 1960s. Why? A couple of reasons: (a)  Nobody can afford it. It doesn't help that there are only two nationwide companies that provide nearly all dialysis.  Once these two companies established territories, the prices shot right up even further. It's a cozy duopoly. (a) the average life span of a renal patient is very short and almost always ends in death. A few people manage to do well with it, but most do not.

 

It's a hideous, painful existence. If you want to see for yourself just take a peep at a clinic and look at all the people with missing limbs, blindness, cancer, severe infections, and you'll see how grotesque it is.

 

For Elizabeth, I empathize with her and her family. The fact that she tried so hard to stay alive and take care of her family while spending twelve hours a day hooked up to a blood-sucking robot is nothing short of heroic.

 

 

Very sad. Prayers and thoughts for Elizabeth's family.

I never needed dialysis but I did suffer complete renal failure.I shared a room with another kidney failure patient who had been hospitalized for five months.I watched what he had to go through and I decided that if indeed I had to endure the same fate that I was going to end my life.I'm not saying that this is the case here,but sometimes people have had enough and throw in the towell.

R.I.P may god be with your family at this time of need.

How sad. RIP, Elizabeth.

How was this natural when she supposedly dropped her kids off before this; and also in a previous news article it said she was being searched for because of a medical issue that needed to be treated. What was the already-known medical issue??

Did I read somewhere she needed kidney dialysis? Why didn't she get it? Was she turned away from somewhere?

Rest in peace, Elizabeth Hoppes...  Condolences go to her family and friends for their loss...