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Title: Dialysis is not as bad as....
Post by: kitkatz on September 15, 2009, 10:32:02 PM
I borrowed this from Okarol in an earlier thread....

Going before a firing squad
Getting kicked in the nuts 3 times a week
Being chased by blood sucking beasts through the gates of hell
Losing your entire family to the plague
Getting swallowed by a whale



Now add your own...
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Post by: Wallyz on September 15, 2009, 10:42:37 PM
Running a cheese grater over your elbow.

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Post by: Des on September 15, 2009, 11:04:11 PM
slamming your finger in a drawer...... so that the nail later falls off
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Post by: kitkatz on September 15, 2009, 11:08:11 PM
shark bite
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Post by: Jean on September 15, 2009, 11:23:59 PM
2 sharks circling you.
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Post by: Wattle on September 15, 2009, 11:42:03 PM
Dialysis is not as bad as....

NOT doing dialysis.   8)
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Post by: iketchum on September 16, 2009, 05:20:28 AM
Losing your legs to diabetes.
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Post by: willowtreewren on September 16, 2009, 05:34:31 AM
Quote
Dialysis is not as bad as....

NOT doing dialysis.   8)

You can say that again (and again, and again)!!!
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Post by: dwcrawford on September 16, 2009, 05:59:46 AM
aging....

and then again there is aging while on dialysis so...

But then again, dialysis is simply a major nuisance.
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Post by: girliekick on September 18, 2009, 10:12:42 AM
Dial-ysis Vs Dial-up  (J/K)
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Post by: dwcrawford on September 18, 2009, 02:25:45 PM
Dialysis is lots of fun.  But it is not nearly as much fun as having a root canal or a colonoscopy.
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Post by: Bajanne on September 18, 2009, 02:54:41 PM
Dialysis is not as bad as ...
the months before you knew what was happening,
the crappy feeling,
zero energy,
shortness of breath.
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Post by: Zach on September 18, 2009, 08:00:52 PM
... a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!   :o
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Post by: Rerun on September 18, 2009, 08:06:22 PM
Dialysis is not as bad as having your toe nails pulled out.
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Post by: mikey07840 on September 18, 2009, 08:51:16 PM
Dialysis is not as bad as a radical nephrectomy
Dialysis is not as bad as kidney cancer
Dialysis is not as bad as the alternative...
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Post by: jpearce on September 19, 2009, 07:24:49 AM
2 bone marrow test
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Post by: kimcanada on September 19, 2009, 08:13:05 AM
... a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!   :o
:rofl;

Thats what I was going to say!!
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Post by: dwcrawford on September 19, 2009, 08:26:06 AM
Go ahead and poke me in the eye.  Just get it over with!
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Post by: monrein on September 19, 2009, 09:26:50 AM
...as other types of organ failure that have no life sustaining technologies.
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Post by: Des on September 21, 2009, 06:45:49 AM
Go ahead and poke me in the eye.  Just get it over with!

I am with you.... just poke me in the eye.... at least its only once?
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Post by: Jessmomto3 on September 22, 2009, 01:04:09 PM
...as other types of organ failure that have no life sustaining technologies.


such a good thing to remember! 
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Post by: pamster42000 on September 22, 2009, 06:28:40 PM
not having the option to recieve dialysis.
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Post by: dwcrawford on September 22, 2009, 06:39:06 PM
as we imagine it will be, before we start dialysis.
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Post by: RichardMEL on September 22, 2009, 07:26:01 PM
I've been poked in the eye - with a very large needle.

I was 7 years old. Imagine the doc telling you to "sit very very still and try not to blink" as this bloody big needle comes closer and closer and closer and.....

yep, dialysis is better than that!
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Post by: Stoday on September 23, 2009, 06:37:11 PM
I don't yet know how bad dialysis will be but I'm sure it won't be as bad as haveing a TV camera stuffed up my jacksie.   :sir ken;
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Post by: dwcrawford on September 24, 2009, 04:51:48 AM
Did you smile for the camera?  Or was it more of an action shot?
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Post by: Stoday on September 25, 2009, 12:39:30 PM
Smile for the camers? They do everything to wipe the smile off your face.

First there's the Flush. Flush, note, not drain. It's a real plumbing job. If you've ever had a boiler replaced, that's what the plumber does to your pipes.

In the hospital, since you're not a contortionist, you can't see what's going on. You can feel it though. You know those big red double deck busses they have in London? It feels like they are stuffing one of those up. I can assure you, you don't smile when one of those is being rammed up your ass. You cough. Or worse.

 :o
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Post by: Zach on September 25, 2009, 03:06:04 PM

In the hospital, since you're not a contortionist, you can't see what's going on. You can feel it though. You know those big red double deck busses they have in London? It feels like they are stuffing one of those up. I can assure you, you don't smile when one of those is being rammed up your ass. You cough. Or worse.


No sedatives?

Here in the States they usually give some sort of sedative so you don't feel a thing.
And sometimes it even knocks you out, so you wake up in the recovery lounge not remembering the procedure at all.

8)
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Post by: willowtreewren on September 25, 2009, 07:38:05 PM
Oh, Stoday! Not fun! We definitely get twilight stuff. Don't remember a thing!

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Post by: Stoday on September 25, 2009, 09:11:16 PM
Yeah I was given sedative, but I think it didn't work very well.
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Post by: Jean on September 25, 2009, 11:21:44 PM
Evidently not Stoday!!!! Come to the states next time you have to have one of those ugly tests!!!
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Post by: Stacy Without An E on November 30, 2009, 04:35:19 PM
Dialysis is not as bad as being turned down for a date because you're on Dialysis.
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Post by: Maker on December 01, 2009, 05:00:28 AM
Choking.

Drowning.

Getting a tatoo.

Getting dumped.

The pain of Childbirth?  Not that I would know about this one!

Some of the replies on this post made me laugh this morning...that's a very good thing  ;D
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Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on December 01, 2009, 05:33:19 AM
I don't yet know how bad dialysis will be but I'm sure it won't be as bad as haveing a TV camera stuffed up my jacksie.   :sir ken;

I hope it wasn't the same one they put down my throat!! :puke;
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Post by: fc2821 on December 01, 2009, 10:50:51 AM
Well, as I always say it beats the alternative.  :)
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Post by: dwcrawford on December 01, 2009, 12:50:53 PM
What is that "twilight stuff"?  I like it.  Can you buy it at Kroger or Safeway?

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Post by: Jean on December 01, 2009, 01:08:04 PM
Dan, if you could we would be standing in line..................................
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Post by: jbeany on December 01, 2009, 01:08:27 PM
dialysis is not as bad as setting your hair on fire.
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Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on December 02, 2009, 01:37:57 AM
Forplay with a crocodile.
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Post by: fc2821 on December 02, 2009, 06:05:20 AM
  Being chsed by a grizzly bear!
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Post by: dwcrawford on December 02, 2009, 06:51:20 AM
having a monkey eat your face off.

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Post by: Des on December 02, 2009, 07:18:50 AM
loosing your child.....
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Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on December 08, 2009, 03:20:56 AM
loosing your child.....

A resounding YES to that one.
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Post by: girliekick on December 12, 2009, 01:44:44 AM
My fam and I were watching some tv show, and I said being a parent must really be the hardest thing ever, then my 8yr old cousin said. No loosing a child.  out of the mouths of babes
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Post by: mikey07840 on December 12, 2009, 02:35:18 AM
Being served as a snack by the Visitors.
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Post by: jennyc on December 12, 2009, 05:35:38 AM
Trying to talk to an ER triage nurse.... those women scare the hell out of me, they are by far the nastiest things ever put on this earth
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Post by: fc2821 on December 12, 2009, 11:32:20 AM
Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.
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Post by: jennyc on December 14, 2009, 01:35:45 AM
Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.


ew, my nephew and brother in law are both rural fire brigade (one volunteer and one paid+volunteer) and they deal with all of the bad crashes outside sydney metro area. They wont really discuss it, but they said they know the smell the moment they arrive on scene.
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Post by: fc2821 on December 14, 2009, 09:00:37 AM
Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.


ew, my nephew and brother in law are both rural fire brigade (one volunteer and one paid+volunteer) and they deal with all of the bad crashes outside sydney metro area. They wont really discuss it, but they said they know the smell the moment they arrive on scene.

Can't blame them, and they are right.  Somethings have a destinctive smell. 
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Post by: twirl on February 07, 2010, 11:44:16 AM
seeing your newborn daugher in the neonatal unit with IV's in her shaven little head ---
not being able to hold her until she was 3 months old
ps -
she is 21 now and has one lung but normal in every other way
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Post by: Jean on February 07, 2010, 07:12:45 PM
having a really really sick child.
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Post by: Whamo on October 31, 2011, 09:53:58 AM
Dialysis isn't as bad as falling head over heels for a lover,
and having her dump you after a couple of months.
Dialysis isn't as bad as basic training at Fort Polk, U.S. Army,
back in the summer of 1974.
Dialysis isn't as bad as a wipeout in big North shore surf.
Dialysis isn't as bad as three days without dialysis.
Dialysis isn't as bad as watching your father die from
a brain tumor.
Dialysis isn't as bad as flunking a class.
Dialysis isn't as bad as realizing your boss lied to you about a raise.
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Post by: ToddB0130 on October 31, 2011, 10:37:09 AM
....... not having friends or family who are supportive and sympathetic as you are having to do it ......
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Post by: kellyt on October 31, 2011, 12:52:19 PM
...catching a skunk with your bare hands.   :rofl;
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Post by: kellyt on October 31, 2011, 12:53:40 PM
Or as bad as this!!!!
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Post by: Adam_W on October 31, 2011, 06:05:06 PM
dialysis isn't as bad as having your face pressed down onto a hot stove.
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Post by: Riki on November 01, 2011, 03:53:47 PM
a pap test.... just sayin'
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Post by: Iwannabean on November 02, 2011, 07:43:31 AM
A colonoscopy, Just sayin :thumbup;
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Post by: kporter85db on November 02, 2011, 08:15:32 AM
Dialysis is not as bad as....

...a nice swim in a lake of hot lava.
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Post by: Riki on November 02, 2011, 05:58:23 PM
hypothyroidism... holy crap.. I feel like my battery is running low and I need to be plugged in, but I can't find the f-n cord
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Post by: kporter85db on November 06, 2011, 02:55:06 AM
hypothyroidism... holy crap.. I feel like my battery is running low and I need to be plugged in, but I can't find the f-n cord

Riki, get your meds straightened out and you should get your energy back. At least I did.
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Post by: Riki on November 06, 2011, 01:48:34 PM
hypothyroidism... holy crap.. I feel like my battery is running low and I need to be plugged in, but I can't find the f-n cord

Riki, get your meds straightened out and you should get your energy back. At least I did.

I was only just diagnosed last week, so only just started taking the meds.  I'm told that it'll be a couple of weeks before they start to work
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Post by: Iwannabean on November 08, 2011, 08:56:43 AM
Good luck Riki, hope you feel better soon.

Iwannabean
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Post by: Isabella13 on November 08, 2011, 10:03:06 AM
having kidney stones. Ouch!
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Post by: Riki on November 08, 2011, 02:18:01 PM
having kidney stones. Ouch!

Ooh.. nasty
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Post by: Jean on November 09, 2011, 12:34:15 AM
Nothing ( I dont think) is worse than having sciatica and diarrhea at the same time.
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Post by: Iwannabean on November 09, 2011, 05:08:32 AM
Eeeew, all of a sudden I am feeling very healthy. :2thumbsup;

Iwannabean
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Post by: Riki on November 09, 2011, 06:23:52 PM
Nothing ( I dont think) is worse than having sciatica and diarrhea at the same time.

OMG.... that is.... I have no words to describe that.. except maybe painful and messy
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Post by: Iwannabean on November 10, 2011, 07:07:01 AM
Never take a box of ex-lax and a sleeping pill......ever  :rofl;

Iwannabean
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Post by: kporter85db on November 28, 2011, 11:02:32 PM
hypothyroidism... holy crap.. I feel like my battery is running low and I need to be plugged in, but I can't find the f-n cord

Riki, get your meds straightened out and you should get your energy back. At least I did.

I was only just diagnosed last week, so only just started taking the meds.  I'm told that it'll be a couple of weeks before they start to work


You get your energy back yet, Riki?
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Post by: brandywine on November 29, 2011, 11:33:34 AM
as we imagine it will be, before we start dialysis.
Isn't that the truth?!
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Post by: brandywine on November 29, 2011, 11:43:39 AM
Dialysis isn't as bad as being hungover.
It is isn't as bad as having to work on your day off.
It isn't as bad as nails down a chalkboard (that kills me).
It isn't as bad as having to bathe your great-grandma.
It isn't as bad as cleaning the toilet-which you have to do a lot more of when you are on PD-so cancel that one.
It isn't as bad as menstrual cramps (sorry guys-but it's so true).
It isn't as bad a driving 5 hours.

It really isn't that bad after all, but I still hate it, because of what it represents.

Btw-don't ever combine dialysis with any of the above, especially multiple items at once. That's a recipe for a very bad time.  >:D
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Post by: CebuShan on November 29, 2011, 02:14:28 PM
Frying bacon in the nude!
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Post by: Riki on November 30, 2011, 09:32:24 PM
hypothyroidism... holy crap.. I feel like my battery is running low and I need to be plugged in, but I can't find the f-n cord

Riki, get your meds straightened out and you should get your energy back. At least I did.

I was only just diagnosed last week, so only just started taking the meds.  I'm told that it'll be a couple of weeks before they start to work


You get your energy back yet, Riki?

No, not yet.. though I have had a few sleepless nights, so the insomnia appears to be coming back.  Perhaps that's a sign that it's beginning to work
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Post by: Gerald Lively on November 30, 2011, 09:48:16 PM
. . . . . .  as hearing your doctor saying, "I don't know what's wrong."
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Post by: rsudock on December 01, 2011, 10:09:21 PM
being held hostage...
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Post by: Joe on December 02, 2011, 06:57:14 AM
being held hostage...

We aren't?
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Post by: rsudock on December 02, 2011, 12:03:03 PM
being held hostage...

We aren't?


yeah I was thinking that later after I typed it....how about....oh never mind it probably is to morbid to say!
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Post by: CebuShan on December 03, 2011, 10:49:27 AM
Spending the Holidays with an in-law that hates you!
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Post by: Mr Pink on November 28, 2012, 11:39:37 PM
Living with dialysis isn't as bad as living in North Korea.
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Post by: kitkatz on November 29, 2012, 07:19:26 PM
getting a car wash and forgetting you did not put the windows up!
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Post by: Simon Dog on November 30, 2012, 11:38:32 AM
ALS
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Post by: deniferfer on November 30, 2012, 01:57:13 PM
 Dialysis is not as bad as  being spit on by a alpaca!!

Trust me on this one...IT'S NASTY!!!!!  :rofl;
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Post by: iKAZ3D on December 10, 2012, 12:27:24 PM
having Chuck Norris chase you throughout the night in the New York Zoo while he lets all the poisonous animals out of their cages and commends them to attack yo' ass.
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Post by: Riki on December 10, 2012, 09:21:01 PM
getting squirted in the face with your own blood..... wait, that is dialysis related....

and it was frickin hilarious....


Nevermind.. *LOL*
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Post by: CebuShan on December 17, 2012, 03:07:51 PM
getting squirted in the face with your own blood..... wait, that is dialysis related....

and it was frickin hilarious....


Nevermind.. *LOL*

I was reading The Twilight books when I had a blood related accident.  It got all over the book and me! All I could do was laugh because I thought "What an appropriate book to be reading when this happened!" The problem was I was laughing to hard to tell my husband what was so funny!   :rofl;
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Post by: M3Riddler on December 17, 2012, 11:59:34 PM
It could always be worse....