Thank you, My Friends. Please take a moment to read about our cause, and support our work if you are able. The gift you give today, just may be the help you are looking for tomorrow.

I never thought I would need it!

Thank you,

Bernie
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People coming home from the hospital, simply don't have the information they need to be confident in recovery. Doctors and nurses understand hospital life, but no medical school prepares them for the questions people have, once they get home.

Quality Life Solutions has a novel approach !

Our methodology is having existing patients amass the answers to every question THEY had when they 'just got' home. Every "trick and tip" they learned or figured out when they were new, they gladly share. We then present this knowledge, FREE OF CHARGE, as an online resource, available to the new patient just "getting there"

Both in the USA, and abroad, we have found a Global Information Desert!

New patients have questions like :

Do I put my pants on Before? or After?

Can I hop to the bathroom at midnight without my new leg?

How can I go out in public?

Who do I call for help?

How do I sleep like this?

We realized,

the only place this knowledge exists, is with the patient that has been doing it for years. Doctors Just Don't Know!!

These life skills only exist with the previous patient.

Your Gift Matters!

Over 4,000 patients have already used our resources.

Read what real users have said:

Michele C. - oh my word, i just learned more in 5 minutes from your website than i have from two years from our NHS (National Health Service), thank you so much!

Benita A. - thank you so so much for the website!!! I've found sooo much info I didn't know about. Like Aqua Guard for showering. It would be life changing if I can find them in UK

Clair M. - I have ordered myself a bag cover and the lady the helped me order it was so kind. There is so much learning to do and things we did not even think of, people like yourself are so valuable to us, so a big thank you

Acting as one Quality Life Solutions family, our methodology is clear:

Patients that have “been there” teaching new patients just arriving.

When you choose to a give, you’re becoming a valuable partner in the Quality Life Solutions nonprofit family, leading the way to change how the world understands, treats, and helps recovery from emergency medical interventions and life-threatening diseases. Because most of our funding comes from individual supporters like you, patients and their loved ones are able to have free access to all resources created by Quality Life Solutions. No one ever pays to use our educational materials, visual resources, websites, or support groups - so each person can just focus on their recovery, and their family has confidence knowing how to support them.

Quality Life Solutions, Inc. freely shares the knowledge gleaned. So every patient in every project, has the opportunity to provide valuable input to share around the world and in your community. Our family won’t stop until every person coming home from their medical intervention knows what they need to know, as we provide Quality Life Solutions.

Your Gift Matters!

A one time Gift is won-derful! Thank you!

A recurring Gift is AMAZING, again, and again!

Sustaining partners are our backbone, consider making your Gift monthly

(Just pick an amount that you won't miss! $1 a day?)

Your Gift WILL make a difference. ALL gifts are 100% tax deductible.

Thank you.

Bernie Schulman, President of Quality Life Solutions, Inc.

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Our Story, The long version:

After Bernie was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer, he went the normal route of interventions. Six rounds of BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Guérin, a weakened strain of bovine tuberculosis) was inserted into his bladder to stimulate a response, it did nothing. Then another six rounds and again no response. The disease had now become muscle invasive, with evidence of metastases. Chemotherapy was next treatment. Six rounds of Cisplatin and Gemcitabine had some tumor shrinkage, but not enough response. He then tried a high level THC intervention. Three months went by, but he says he doesn’t remember much of that. The two year saga to this point, also included several bladder resections (surgery to cut-out tumor growth), and too many trips to the Emergency Room for uncontrolled bleeding from the resections, and clotted urinary catheters. Through all of this, his attitude and outlook always remained positive.

Bernie read about a Clinical Trial at NIH for people that were unresponsive to similar treatments and drove from Baltimore, MD down to NIH to see if he could qualify. After drawing about 12 vials of blood, the doctors told him he was in total kidney failure. It seemed that tumors had blocked off the ureter openings into the bladder. His creatinine was 8.8, (normal is up to 1.3) by the time he went to emergency surgery it was 9.2.

Doctors perform emergency surgery:

Bilateral Percutaneous Nephrostomy, which is inserting tubes directly into both kidneys through the back, to allow direct draining. The next day they showed him the ends of the tubes coming from around his back, and how they drained into small bags hanging from the bed. A nurse coordinator met with him to arrange a “supplies” provider that would take his insurance. The attending nurses were wonderful explaining how the set up works, “in a hospital environment”.

After watching the nurses come in frequently to empty the small Nephrostomy bags. Bernie immediately had his own input. The nurses were willing to listen to what he had to say. They brought him large Urinary bags, and found him the adapters needed to merge the two different style connectors, they had never seen anything like this. After a few days of recovery, he was given a few sheets of paper with instructions on “How to take care of your Nephrostomy”. These instructions basically explained how to “flush” the tubes when necessary, and how to simply hang the bags on one’s body. He was then discharged and sent home.

Bernie is an engineer at heart,

a problem solver with a gift of figuring out how to do whatever needs to be done. He immediately started scouring the internet for information on everything from, how to change the dressings, which he couldn’t see, to how to wear the bags during the day while out and about, and how to sleep with them comfortably at night. As Bernie likes to say, “There is more information online about mustache wax than there is about how to live with nephrostomy”. He spent the next two years experimenting with different products, styles of wear, and systems for “real life” comfortable living.

He had to fight with his insurance company and medical suppliers to have access to supplies he needed. In the end he succeeded. He had the supplies, and a system, and a routine that was convenient. Most importantly he had a comfortable way of doing life. Whether he was working from home in his bathrobe, unloading lumber on a job site, laying under his truck doing a repair, or sleeping 8 hours without having to get up to empty the small Nephrostomy bags.

As Bernie says it:

“I’ve never been a support group kinda guy. Maybe I could have learned some of this stuff there? But going through the daily ins and outs of my life, what I needed, each day, each night, in each environment, taught me the simplest and easiest ways to live, and I mean live comfortably. Heck, my tubes don’t even get stuck behind my legs when I drive anymore. Who knew? This information needs to be available to each person, from the beginning.”

His systems are adaptable,

to any home or office, male or female. We are glad he brought his story to our cause. NephrostomyLiving.org (opens in new tab) is what grew out of the abundance of learning Bernie had acquired. He wanted, “the next person to have this information available when they first get home. They have enough to do emotionally, figuring out their new life.”

Thank you, Bernie.

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