Freeway opens up about his kidney failure and dialysis treatments during a recent VladTV interview. Last year, Freeway was rushed to the hospital after being diagnosed with kidney failure during a routine check-up that resulted in an emergency surgery procedure shortly after.
The 37-year old Philly rapper points to an area on his arm where he receives his dialysis treatments three times a week and describes how they moved his arm’s main vein from the bottom to the top.
“When I first got it, it was hard to get used to when I went to sleep,” the Fear Of A Free Planet rapper says. “It’s all the way up here to my under arm so it’s like vibrating all the time. It just feels weird.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Freeway remembers what happened the day of his diagnosis.
“I did a routine check-in with my doctor and a couple of weeks later they called me and was like, ‘Yo, you got to get yourself to the hospital,” the former Roc-A-Fella Records rapper says. “All your levels are off. Your keratin levels are crazy through the roof. Your electrolytes is off.”
Freeway recalls looking towards his faith after being diagnosed and praying to Allah for strength.
He says the dialysis treatments have helped.
“Now that I get my treatments, I feel way better,” Freeway says. “Better than I did the week before that because I didn’t know I was sick.
The full VladTV interview with Freeway, who opens up about his kidney failure and dialysis treatments, is as follows:
Just say my boys got some fucked up shit and he need your prayers peace
This is food stamp holding down tha bay
We got mad love 4 ya
You in all of our prayers ……..
Let The Lord heal my brother!
God hear my prayer… Amen
Kidney failure has got to be stopped! We need an all out national assault on it. It’s silent, so everybody has to know their blood level of creatinine, not keratin. Normal creatinine is 1. Dialysis starts at a creatinine of 5 or 10. Before it’s 2, we can help get it down 90% of the time at GenoMed.com But the trick is knowing when your serum creatinine is 2. Since there are no symptoms of kidney failure–your kidneys DO NOT hurt–you just have to get the creatinine blood test every year at least.
Hey there. I was on dialysis for a little over a year diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease. I was told I would need a kidney. I cried every day because I had never been sick like I was. I couldn’t sleep unless someone was around I was scared to sleep because I thought I wouldn’t wake up. I cried when I would get to the dialysis center because at least twice a week the nurses would have to bring me back to life while getting dialysis. I was terrified. I knew I had to do something. So I got busy with myself. Paying attention to everything about me. I was on 12 medication walking around like a zombie. There are ways to get your kidneys to function. I am living proof of this because I did it. I pray for you and I will continue to.