Bill Peckam has passed. Bill was a long time dialysis patient (29 years) who was a public patient.He wrote the incredibly popular Sharp End of the Needle blog (when I did a review of nephrology blogs in 2013, I declared Sharp End to be the third nephrology related blog ever). It looks like he stopped posting to the blog this past June and his last Tweet was in November.
My favorite memory of Bill was reading his blog about rafting down the Snake River doing NX Stage at night. People talk about how home hemo allows you to really live your life. Bill was the embodiment of this. He also was a tremendous advocate for dialysis patients.