“Dialysis may shape a person’s routine, but it should never shrink dreams.”
This is Nirmal’s story from India, shared with us in her own words.
For years, Nirmal and her father stayed close to home, believing that travelling while receiving dialysis would be too difficult and risky. Then she began wondering whether an international trip could still be possible.
Singapore became their first big adventure. By arranging her father’s dialysis sessions in advance and carefully planning the rest of their journey around his treatment and recovery time, Nirmal found the confidence to make that trip happen and it opened the door to more travel afterwards.
“I have been dialysis carer for around 4 years. My father was dialysis patient based in India and had three haemodialysis session per week. We never travelled far after dialysis as we thought of health risk and there is huge dependency on dialysis. After covid, travel slowly started picking up and I wondered if I could take my father abroad for tourism. I shortlisted Singapore for tourism and searched in internet if its possible for foreigner to do dialysis in Singapore.
I came across bookdialysis which supported holiday dialysis in many countries. I downloaded their app in mobile and booked three session for Singapore holiday dialysis and planned to stay in Singapore for a week. After booking via bookdialysis app, I got confirmation email from the clinic. Bookdialysis and the clinic’s team answered all my queries.
EXCITED !
I planned and worked out rest of the things passport, visa, travel insurance, forex card, Singapore currency and designed travel itinerary in a way where my father (senior citizen) can do dialysis, rest and still travel to enjoy the best attractions in Singapore.
Dialysis may shape a person’s routine but it should never shrink dreams. My only regret is I could have done it earlier and visited multiple countries. Even if travelling within your country it makes sense to travel as it brings change, fresh perspectives. Dialysis makes life boring for patient. Travel makes it exciting. I realised even with dialysis, dreams can take flight.
Thanks to bookdialysis team for their support in dialysis. I will recommend Bookdialysis website & app based on previous experience. After Singapore trip we travelled Munnar, Kumarakom etc, just because of confidence we had in our travel experience, thanks to Bookdialysis for making dream come true.”
