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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: Adam_W on November 24, 2008, 06:51:58 PM

Title: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: Adam_W on November 24, 2008, 06:51:58 PM: I go in next Tues to have my PD catheter taken out. I'm disappointed, but I'm dealing with it. I'm just glad I have NxStage to go back to, and I don't have to do in-centre. I'm still going to be able to move, it will just be a little more awkward because my "partner" won't actually be living with me. There are also a couple new home hemo machines coming out soon (one from Baxter and one from X-Corporeal), and I may be able to participate in the clinical trials of one of them. The X-Corporeal machine is actually being marketed for UNATTENDED home hemo. So, At least I can't say I didn't try PD.

Adam
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: Run8 on November 24, 2008, 09:39:37 PM: All We can so is never give up and try Adam.
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: mikey07840 on November 24, 2008, 09:56:16 PM: Hang in there buddy. Ruth sends her special royal love. :waving;
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: willieandwinnie on November 25, 2008, 01:08:18 PM: Adam, I am so sorry that PD didn't work for you. Please keep us updated on how things are going. :cuddle;
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on November 25, 2008, 03:21:33 PM: Sorry that PD didn't work for you. On the bright side at least you won't have to walk around with what sometimes feels like a second penis and no more fannying about keeping your exit site clean. If Nextage was available in the UK I would quite possibly consider it.
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: monrein on November 25, 2008, 03:41:00 PM: Quote from: Ken Shelmerdine on November 25, 2008, 03:21:33 PM
Sorry that PD didn't work for you. On the bright side at least you won't have to walk around with what sometimes feels like a second penis and no more fannying about keeping your exit site clean. If Nextage was available in the UK I would quite possibly consider it.
:rofl; Some of us don't know what it feels like to have ONE of those things (attached permanently, at any rate), let alone two.

I'm thinking Nxstage stock might be a decent investment right now, it's trading at approx $2.50 down from the year's high of over $15.00.
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: Sluff on November 25, 2008, 06:42:41 PM: :grouphug;
Title: Re: Catheter comes out Dec. 2
Post by: David13 on November 29, 2008, 04:06:17 PM: Sorry to hear about this setback, Adam. You did everything right, it just didn't work out, it seems.

As you said, at least you have another home dialysis option, and you are already familiar with it. Those new machines, especially the one from X-Corporeal, seem to offer an intriguing promise of better things to come, too.