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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Sluff on November 19, 2008, 07:38:35 PM
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What are you thankful for this year.
I am thankful for all the members who have received their gift of life this year.
I am thankful that I have went another year without needing dialysis.
I am thankful for the loved ones in my life.
I am thankful for ihatedialysis.com, and the help it provides to the members who need it.
Although we have lost a few friends this year , I am still thankful to be able to call them my friend.
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I am so thankful for IHD whose members have helped me deal with this stage of life so much. I appreciate you all.
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I am thankful that I started Nocturnal this year and am feeling better. I have to dialyze Thanksgiving evening but that means I'm having a big piece of pumpkin pie. (after whatever I want for Thanksgiving dinner)
:yahoo;
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I am thankful for my family.
I am thankful I have not had to go on dialysis yet.
I am thankful that when I went to the Dr. today my GFR had gone up to 22 from 17.
I am thankful I have a roof over my head, clothes to cover my body, and food to nourish my body.
I am thankful I am an American and free to make my own choices about where and how I live and who and where I worship.
I am thankful that I found IHD and learned more about ESRD than I ever thought possible
And I am thankful to the Lord I am still alive and kicking.
Thanks folks of IHD it has been a good ride.
Mimi
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Marvin and I are thankful...
...that someone was smart enough to invent a dialysis machine so Marvin could live the past 14 years
...that we can now do home hemo
...that the sun is on its way up this morning
...that we're not hungry, or cold, or naked (unless we want to be on this last one >:D )
...that we have each other
...that we have friends who know us and love us anyway
...that Hop-Sing is our dog baby
...that Life -- despite some bumps in the road -- is still good, still fun, and still worth living
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amen
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I am thankful for:
My hubby being up and walking.
Being able to leave dialysis at 3 a.m Thanksgiving morning.
Having my family close.
My daughter coming home from cold Wisconsin for eight days. (We will have to send Sluff some California weather with her when she returns.)
Feeling better from being on Nocturnal D.
My doggie and kitties being here.
Books, books,books
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- I am thankful for my wonderful, loving family
- I am thankful my hubby has a strong stomach and loves me enough to be my dialysis caregiver
- I am thankful for the invention of a dialysis machine
- I am thankful to be doing dialysis at home
- I am thankful to have a great clinic nurse that answers all my questions
- I am thankful to Epoman for creating this site, and all the IHD members who make it strong
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I am thankful that I can feed myself, bathe myself, walk, talk, dress myself.
I am thankful that I can see, hear, touch, taste, feel things, feel love, give love.
I am thankful for the wonderful Mama that I had.
I am thankful that I have family that I could move closer to here in TN.
I am thankful that I have never gone hungry, naked and always had a roof over my head.
I am thankful for FREEDOM!!!!
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I am thankful for all my friends on IHD who encouraged me during this difficult year
I am thankful to my friends Jeff and Peter who bent over backwards and really came through for me with all thier help this year
I am thankful that I am learning to walk again
I am thankful for my family
Boxman
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Happy Thanksgiving :usaflag;
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I am thankful for all of you and everything. :clap;
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I am thankful that I found IHD and its members this year.
I am thankful for Schatzie, Schnappi, and MewMew -- my "babies".
I am thankful for my hubby and my family.
I am very thankful to the man and his family who thought enough of other people at a difficult time to give the gift of life.
I am thankful for the health that I do have.
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I am thankful for - the cats my mom has that spend more time with me ;D
- the emails I received while in the hospital that helped kill time while coherent
- that I have a place to live even though I do not care for the company and crap that comes along with it
- that I still have some vision left
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone
:grouphug;
http://www.jacquielawson.com:80/viewcard.asp?code=HY27482779
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I am thankful to be alive and thankful that I feel content most of the time. Neither of these two things would be possible without all the people who help me directly and indirectly, doctors, nurses, techs, family and friends, including ALL of you here at IHD. I thank you and am thankful for you. Thanksgiving seems as good a time as any to remember this out loud. If I weren't on dialysis I'd be spending this Thanksgiving in Clearwater with family but we'll probably connect by iChat and be thankful for that.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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I am thankful that I am still here and on my good days, I actually feel okay.
I am thankful for my family, especially my husband who has seen me at my very worst and has stuck by me all this time. ;D
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Even though we don't celebrate thanksgiving in Australia, I am thankful every morning when I wake up that I actually woke to a new day. I am thankful to all my friends on IHD and all my family and friends in Oz. I am thankful for the terrific medical team who look after me and I am thankful that my husband hasn't left me for wife number six. :) I am thankful that I was still able to fend off dialysis for another year and was able to take my trip to Italy. But most of all I am thankful that for some time now Kit has had no reason to beat me up with her stick!! Happy thanksgiving to all my American mates. xx
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I am thankful for my wonderful husband, who loves me despite the "in sickness"
I am thankful for my son, who is turning into a really cool individual
I am thankful for my parents, who love me and support me, and always let me know it
I am thankful for my donor family
I am thankful for IHD, all the wonderful people here, and all the really great information
Happy Thanksgivng everyone!
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Happy Turkey Day ALL! LOVE YA :beer1;
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I am Thankful for KAREN (my karen but all the others as well :waving;)
I am thankful for this site. The Knowledge i have gained and continue to gain from here.
I am thankful for ALL THE MEMBERS even when we may disagree in other threads about non dialysis stuff.
I am Thankful on Thanksgiving i will be flying to Playa Del Carmen With the LOVE of my life.
I hope you all have the very best Thanksgiving. And to those overseas have a super weekend.
P&K
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I'm thankful for...
1. My husband.
2. My sister-in-law, Irene. (donor)
3. My house (as wrecked as it is)
4. Our business
5. That I don't have to work outside the house (for now)
6. Our clients
7. My family (all of them)
8. The memories of my Mother and Father
9. All the food in my pantry/fridge
10. Money in the bank
11. IHD Family
12. My two children dogs, Frost and Pup
13. Two running vehicles with working A/C (paid for)
14. My health insurance
The list goes on. I regularly complain and gripe about my life, but when I sit and think about it I have it so much better than many. It stinks that everytime we turn around we are getting a bill from someone that has to be paid. What I don't think about is that I'm able to send the total in full every time and not pay it out $5-10 at a time. I am truly gratefull.
Watch out 2009! The Talberts are making a freaking come-back! We have had our AZZes handed to us on a plate for the last three years! NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! :boxing; :boxing; :cheer: :cheer:
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I am Thankful for my husband Rob who is the love of my life and my best friend.
I am Thankful for my son Brendan who has made our world complete and by letting me be his Mom.
I am Thankful for my health.
I am Thankful for my family and loving friends.
I am Thankful for my two beautiful "puppies".
I am Thankful for my job and that I get to work from home.
I am Thankful for my home, food on my shelves and heat to warm these cold New England nights.
I am Thankful that I will be celebrating Thanksgiving with my family and having a wonderful day.
I am Thankful for the little NxStage Dialysis machine which keeps Rob alive and allows him to be at home with his family (where he belongs!).
I am Thankful for life!
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I am thankful that Sluff started this thread :clap;
Thankful for:
Mom getting through these last few months
Support and hugs from my IHD family
Two sons who mean the world to me (I cry now thinking about when they will be on their own)
Good job and even 'gooder' co-workers
Friends that truly care
Husband who, even though drives me crazy sometimes, manages to cook dinner every night, dishes, laundry, dusting, vacuuming, all the 'woman' stuff and still does the 'man' stuff
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving
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We took our family Christmas card photo last Thanksgiving, inspired by Norman Rockwell. We will do another one this year, I am trying to think of a theme.
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i am thankful for 4 children, grown, on their own and doing well.
i am especially thankful for april, because without her i'd be living under a bridge)
i am thankful for 4 adorable grandsons (i want to buy PINK) (hint, hint)
i am thankful for my parents who are in excellent health in their 80's and still a big part of my life (january, oregon here i come again!)
i am thankful for ihd and everyone here, you all mean so much to me. i'm not sure i would want to do this dialysis stuff without you.
happy thanksgiving one and all
gobble, gobble
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone :thumbup;
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I'm thankfoll for being forchant to dot be on dialysis yet and to all of you her at IHD . The support is grate and my family a husband that truly exec's me in sicknus and in health . a doter that continues to grow into a buttefol loving friend to her mom . The chains to babel to do the job the so love to help the mental ill . my all you her at IHD have a wonderful Thanksgiving :grouphug; :wine; Love Carol
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I am thankful for NxStage and the freedom it provides (http://www.billpeckham.com/from_the_sharp_end_of_the/2008/11/i-am-thankful-for-nxstage-and-the-freedom-it-provides.html)
I was driving, listening to the radio when the conversation (http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=16404) touched on (at the 19 minute mark) freedom and the writings of Howard Thurman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman). I've been thinking about freedom lately. Freedom in the context of dialysis, in the context of home dialysis. Does home dialysis provide freedom? And how so? I think it does, but not in the way it is usually presented.
Often it is the flexibility of managing your own schedule that is said to provide freedom. The freedom to have the room warm and the TV loud while you dialyze. The freedom to set your rules in place of the dialysis unit's rules. Those are not profound freedoms. Thurman spoke of profound freedoms.
The freedom of innocence, the freedom of resignation and the freedom of struggle. Driving along, listening to the radio, I realized these three freedoms sum up my kidney experience. Initially, with working kidneys you have the freedom of innocence. You don't know what you have, you take your kidneys for granted and go about your life. This freedom is illusory, but people, indeed most people, can live long lives enjoying this freedom.
This is the freedom that people with sever kidney disease, with CKD5 miss. When you tell someone on incenter dialysis that you'll get your freedom back with a high dose of dialysis provided at home this is what they hope you mean (someone with a transplant can cover freedom from the transplantor point of view). It is imagined that at home things will be as they were, that they will get back to a freedom of innocence. A high dose dialysis provided at home is a great form of renal replacement but it is still a treatment, it will not let you reclaim your renal innocence.
On dialysis it is the freedom of resignation that is most commonly experienced. Making the best of a bad situation. Thurman quotes a spiritual, "I've been down so long that being down don't bother me." It's acceptance. The acceptance of nausea. The acceptance of low energy; of fuzzy, uremic thinking. There is a freedom in this, indeed I called myself a dialysis success story because I had accepted being on incenter dialysis. I felt liberated by this resignation, free to travel but also free to be self absorbed, free to be disengaged.
Incenter dialysis only took me so far, acceptance could only take me so far. Incenter dialysis left chronic kidney disease draped around me like a wet blanket, smothering dreams and ambition. For a while I sang being down don't bother me because I didn't know I didn't know I wasn't getting enough CKD5 medicine. I didn't know I wasn't getting enough dialysis. I didn't know things could be different. Because I didn't know, I didn't seek out change.
By chance I started dialyzing at home more frequently in September 2001, I started getting a higher dose of dialysis. Since January of this year I have been using the NxStage System One to dialyze over night, sleeping through a process that use to fill my evenings. It is now that I say NxStage has given me my freedom. On this day I give thanks for this freedom.
It is not the freedom of innocence: I'm kept alive by a machine, my innocence is gone. It is not the freedom of acceptance: mere acceptance is no longer acceptable. It is the freedom of struggle. The freedom to struggle. The freedom to take on life. The freedom to work for change. The freedom to carve out a niche in an indifferent world. I like this struggle, the freedom of this struggle. Over night treatments on the System One reduces dialysis to one of life's details, leaving me to engage in the struggle. I am profoundly thankful.
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:thumbup; Bill - interesting insight.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! :grouphug;
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Happy Thanksgiving to my friends south of the border. :beer1; Hope you count your blesings and have a delicious turkey dinner. Okarol your picture was beautiful!!!
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The food was good, however I came home fro D with high blood pressure and knocked back a minoxidil, the most powerful pill I have in the BP arsenal. Dropped it to 116/84 from 230/104 this morning. Slept most of the monring. Went o Mom and sister's for lunch. Good turkey. god food, bad mood. Pill must be giving me the crazies today. Now I am off to rest and relax. I am tired and moody today.
Happy Thanksgiving! Isn't it great those pilgrims survived their first winter, and here we hare several hundred years later!
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I am thankful that I have Okarol, Bajanne, Kitkatz,Boxman and Paris, who puts in countless free hours to keep Epoman's vision alive and exciting at times. Without these people and the Members of IHD, we could not exist. Thank you to everyone who makes this forum what it is today.
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Wow what a feast we had. Went to my sisters and we had all are family and my sisters husband family, about 30 people 2 turkeys and enough side dishes to fill a train. i have left overs to take thru Sunday. I am thankful that we all could be together on the anniversary of my Moms death (7 years). She would of had a wonderful time...Boxman
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Oh I'm sorry Boxman, however I'm sure there were wonderful memories in that room.
Ann
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What a wonderful day we had! We went over my sister's house and had tons of great food for the 15 of us there. Then afterwards the yummy desserts came out and half of us played a rowdy and fun game of Life. It was a nice day spent with family and friends. Rob felt great which made me feel even better (thank you NxStage!). Today Brendan and I are heading back to my sister's for some yummy leftovers and a fun day. Poor Rob has to work, but it's an easy day for him.