About Tollidee

Tollidee is a combination of two German words: toll,
meaning “great”
and idee, meaning “idea”.

The purpose of this site is to provide an online community to educate,
and support kidney patients and their family members.

Inside you will find resources
to help educate and support, my blog,
and a budding online
community of ESRD patients and family members supporting each other.

ESRD stands for End Stage Renal Disease, and
is really just a fancy way of saying “kidney failure”.
Click here to read about
my experience with kidney failure, transplant, and dialysis.

This site is meant to be not only a way for me to share my life, but also
a place for people to share, and relate their own experiences with chronic
kidney illness.

Here you will find links to other support
systems, my personal
experiences, and a budding online
community of people in the same place you are.

I hope that this will become a community dedicated to patient advocacy,
and awareness. Hopefully through sharing our own experiences with each
other, we can create awareness, and support for patients, their families,
and their friends.
Please enjoy your stay here, and feel free to contact
me with any questions, comments, or suggestions.

Yes!
Ultimately we all benefit from increased awareness, so we’d like to welcome
anyone with interest to join
our forums and get involved!

While the focus of our forums are support and education for ESRD patients
and their families, it is open to anyone who might have something to offer
– or benefit – from participation.