Patient Stories: Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)

PD Profile: KaShawna Foster

Kidney disease is part of KaShawna’s life but she doesn’t let it keep her from enjoying living. Not only can the software project manager do her dialysis at work, she takes her PD setup wherever she goes. She’s done PD exchanges at Safeco Field, on road trips, and huckleberry picking at Mount Rainier.

KaShawna at her desk at Microsoft

Northwest Kidney Centers keeps people in the Seattle area alive with dialysis care, educates the public about kidney health, and collaborates with UW Medicine in the Kidney Research Institute. We are one of very few community-based, nonprofit dialysis providers in the country. Founded in 1962, ours was the first out-of-hospital dialysis program in the world and it is still a model in the field.