Griquet senior to receive dialysis at local hospital
Will no longer have to travel to Corner Brook for treatment
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senior is elated he no longer has to drive to Corner Brook from his Griquet home for dialysis.
Two weeks ago, 80-year-old Roland Peyton — in need of dialysis in the wake of kidney failure — was told by the local hospital in St. Anthony there was no room in the facility’s dialysis unit and he would have to travel Western Regional Hospital in Corner Brook twice a week to receive the life-saving treatment.
But the Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital in St. Anthony told his family last week a spot has opened for Peyton. He was set to begin his treatment today.
“I’m some happy about this,” said Peyton, who couldn’t speak to the media two weeks ago when the story first broke.
Monday he sounded energetic and elated.
“I couldn’t understand why I had to drive all the way down there. I didn’t want to do that,” he said.
The reason was never really disclosed by the hospital, and representatives were unavailable Monday to return phone calls.
In a statement it alluded to a wait list and said the unit is now operating at full capacity, utilizing all staffing and resources that are currently available.
Peyton suffered complications back in June when one of his kidneys shut down and the other began operating at a lowered capacity. He was taken into St. John’s and upon his release required dialysis twice weekly.
“It’s just 15 or 20 minutes away now, as opposed to six hours,” said Peyton’s son. “He’s better now than he’s been in a while. He was sick off and on with whatever him, but he’s great now.”
Peyton’s daughter, Deann Wyatt, said her father feels a lot less stress.
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him. He only found out that he had kidney failure back in June, and for him to have to deal with that, and then having to deal with that drive twice a week, it was almost too much for him,” she said. “At one point he thought he’d have to move and he didn’t want to do that, so we’ve been through a lot.”
Wyatt said her father is in much better in spirits now, and the family believes media coverage may have caused the hospital to admit her father to the dialysis unit.