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    The Dialysis Project
    The Dialysis Project
    The Dialysis Project
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    The Dialysis Project

    By Leah Lewis

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    The Dialysis Project is the first-person story of agency and resilience.

    The Dialysis Project is a one-woman play about the experience of a home dialysis patient administering her own medical treatments every other day. The play explores what it’s like to live with a lifelong chronic condition requiring regular medical procedures for survival, and touches on themes of identity and resilience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBreakwater Books
    Release dateApr 30, 2023
    ISBN9781550819625
    The Dialysis Project
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    Leah Lewis

    Leah Lewis is a scholar and performer. Her work has focused on exploring chronic illness as a lived experience of many. Leah’s research and writing are arts-based, and work with first-person accounts of resilience and agency as it relates to daily lived experiences of chronic illness.

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      The Dialysis Project - Leah Lewis

      Ten minutes before the live feed / show begins, the screen shows a static shot of a medical table, shot from directly above. Over the course of ten minutes, we watch the table slowly getting set up with supplies for a dialysis treatment. LEAH’s hands are seen coming in and out of the shot, cleaning the table and placing the objects (bandages, syringes, medical tape, blood pressure machine, etc.).

      When the live feed begins, we are in LEAH’s living room. She sits in a red chair by a large window. Next to her is her dialysis machine: a white square piece of machinery, with several saline bags hung above, and threads of plastic medical tubing. On the other side of her is the small wheeled table covered in medical supplies: bandages, medical tape, needles in packages, syringes.

      She stares down the barrel of the camera for a moment, then speaks.

      LEAH: When I was nineteen I wanted to go to Uganda. I still had my working transplanted kidney back then. My transplant doctor, Dr. Henry Gault, refused to sign my passport

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