My aunt is on a dialysis machine. She can't get around and do the things she used too do as much. But she still has a good quality of life.
Her husband helps her with her dialysis machine.
It's not something you want to live on but being on dialysis isn't all that bad she says. She says at least she's alive still and it beats being dead.
She doesn't have to be on the dialysis machine all the time just when she needs to do her dialysis treatment. So you're not hooked up to a machine 24/7.