My mother is 84 years old with chronic diabetes and hypertension.  She also has PAD and a pacemaker for sinus bradycardia.  Her creatinine is 3.1 and GFR 13.5.  Her dr has asked to think about dialysis over the next 6 weeks and let him know what she has decided.  I am a nurse and really feel that dialysis would be too hard on her body.  Any advice?
Hit this point, depending on her potassium levels, she may well need dialysis even with her health condition.  If she hasn't been evaluated by a nephrologist she needs that