Uremia

Your kidneys are failing. What otherwise happens quietly and unnoticed — the filtering of your blood, the excretion of what the body no longer needs — is no longer working. The toxins that normally leave the body through urine remain in the blood. They circulate. They accumulate. And they poison you — from within. Medically, uremia is an emergency. A state that, left untreated, is life-threatening and requires immediate nephrological care.

But alongside the medical question there is a second one that is rarely asked: what is happening in your life that your cleansing system is giving up? Your body has an organ that does nothing else but clarify — separating the useful from the useless, excreting the harmful, keeping the inner milieu in balance. When this organ ceases its service, what should long since have gone begins to accumulate.