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Title: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sara on November 09, 2006, 06:00:47 PM
No, it can't be a kidney.  Something fairly realistic and do-able in your lifetime (not that a kidney isn't, but work with me here. :lol;)  Something you'd want to receive, somewhere to go, something to do, someone you'd want to meet...what would it be?
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Epoman on November 09, 2006, 06:05:03 PM
No, it can't be a kidney.  Something fairly realistic and do-able in your lifetime.  Something you want, somewhere you'd want to go, something you'd want to do, what would it be?

Something that is do-able in my lifetime would be to have my son go to a top 10 college. That is my goal and why I continue to fight and live on dialysis. I have 9 years to go.  :-\
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sara on November 09, 2006, 06:05:39 PM
I would love to go around Africa with Bono (from U2) and do the relief work and public awareness stuff he is passionate about.  I think that would be really cool and very rewarding.

Something else I'd like to do is (once I have a nursing degree) is visit various countries and do relief work and health missions, like vaccinations, public health stuff, etc. 
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: kitkatz on November 09, 2006, 06:10:16 PM
I want/wish to go visit the country of Australia. I have always been fascinated with since the third grade.  I want to see the Opera House in Sydney, and might event take the tour of the high bridge tour where you can see all of Sydney.  Then off to Steve Erwin's Zoo, then off to Alice Springs, then the Great Barrier Reef area, and  Ayer's Rock, and see the outback and stay on a cattle or sheep station.  I have a biiiig wish here!
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Jill D. on November 09, 2006, 06:17:44 PM
I would love a month-long visit to Italy.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: goofynina on November 09, 2006, 09:03:05 PM
If i could have one wish granted it would to see Epoman walk again  :clap;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: jbeany on November 10, 2006, 08:53:02 AM
I wish I could go back to work at the architect firm I used to work for.  I loved my job!
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: angela515 on November 10, 2006, 09:03:01 AM
I wish me and my kids could have our own house and not have money problems.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sluff on November 10, 2006, 01:20:43 PM
If i could have one wish granted it would to see Epoman walk again  :clap;

 :'(

I would wish for some extra wishes.

My one wish  would be for me to be able to make our annual meet become a reality so that everyone could be in one spot dialysize while there free and be able to stay as long as they wish.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Fox_nc on November 10, 2006, 04:57:10 PM
I would wish for all my bills to be paid  :angel;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Joe Paul on November 11, 2006, 03:28:05 PM
For once, id love for someone to understand my hell.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Bette on November 12, 2006, 04:16:42 PM
I wish that I could have another child.  I love being a mom.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: goofynina on November 12, 2006, 07:05:41 PM
another wish of mine would be for the freaken Raiders to win a damn game :P :P :P
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sluff on November 12, 2006, 08:35:35 PM
another wish of mine would be for the freaken Raiders to win a damn game :P :P :P


 :rofl;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: goofynina on November 12, 2006, 09:39:33 PM
Oh, and you think that was funny Sluff??  HUH??   (yah, i thought it was too) lol  :rofl;  cant hate a woman for dreamin' now can you?? :beer1;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Fighter on November 13, 2006, 11:55:10 AM
No, it can't be a kidney. 

Alright then, two kidneys.  ;D
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: livecam on November 14, 2006, 12:33:37 PM
I saw a TV show recently about the personal lifestyles of lottery winners.  Things were a bit extravagent but it didn't look too bad.  ;D
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: mallory on November 16, 2006, 02:04:14 PM
I'd wish that I could learn how to surf.  I always thought that would be cool.  You might think that's not a very big wish, but I live in Utah.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: kitkatz on November 16, 2006, 02:56:22 PM
I'd wish that I could learn how to surf.  I always thought that would be cool.  You might think that's not a very big wish, but I live in Utah.

You could always sand surf the dunes in Utah!   :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sluff on November 16, 2006, 05:34:49 PM
Salt Surf  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Inara on November 19, 2006, 03:44:37 AM
I would wish to have my house paid off.  If I had that done, I wouldn't have to be so worried about paying for my daughter to go to college. 
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: RichardMEL on November 19, 2006, 04:30:20 AM
Can I wish for another 2l/day fluid allowence?!??!! PLEASE!!!! :)

There's also a certain someone in my life I wish wouldn't marry the absolute loser she seems destined to marry (yes, I had my chance with her and screwed it up :( ).

last but not least I wish everyone here's problems (medical, financial, emotional, whatever) could magically be solved.. and then we'd all be transplanted to a pacific island for one bloody big PARTY!!!

Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Rerun on November 19, 2006, 04:32:43 AM

last but not least I wish everyone here's problems (medical, financial, emotional, whatever) could magically be solved.. and then we'd all be transplanted to a pacific island for one bloody big PARTY!!!


Be careful what you wish for~   ;D
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: RichardMEL on November 19, 2006, 04:35:34 AM
Yes, you would have to wear a bikini!!! he he

(hey, it's my wish remember ;) )
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: goofynina on November 19, 2006, 11:44:25 AM
Ooh Ooh,  i wish for Richards wish to come true (well, the pacific island party part)  :P
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: angieskidney on November 19, 2006, 03:21:35 PM
I wish .. for a beautiful wedding and a beautiful home ... why? because I doubt I will ever have anything nice in my life and I can wish for anything other than a kidney right?

I really really REALLY feel I will never have anything nice in my life and it really gets me down. I mean .. I never even had the chance to save up money and build a life for myself. It would be different if I had ever been healthy and then got sick but no such luck!  :banghead; :'(

Anyway, sorry if it sounds like I am feeling sorry for myself but the wedding I went to yesterday was so beautiful that it depressed me. plus everyone dancing with their loved ones while mine had to go back to the States .. ya I was depressed. I have a LOT I can wish for. But I don't think everyone wants to hear it all :p
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: RichardMEL on November 19, 2006, 07:21:56 PM
angies - *hugs* to you...

I think we can all relate in one way or another to how you are feeling. The only thing I can say with regards to your wedding and life is that the most IMPORTANT thing is that you have people around you who love you (and you love). A fancy wedding, house, car and stuff.. that's all posessions and when it comes down to it doesn't REALLY matter. What matters is the people in your lives that are there for you, and you are there for them - in whatever ways that may be possible.

As for you saying you "will never have anything nice in your life" - I think the fact you have found that special someone you wish to spend the rest of your life with, and vice versa... that would seem a pretty nice thing to me. I think I found my someone, but she ended up with someone else who looks like she will marry in a few months (and I think it will be a disaster!).

I think because our health is one of our most important assets (I would value personal health above money) when we're sick the way we are it can cast a massive cloud over how we feel and react to things - specially when things restrict us so much in various ways. Clearly there's no magic solution but you CAN vent here!!!

again.. *hugs* offered...
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: jedimaster on November 19, 2006, 08:23:31 PM
I wish that medicine advances so fast that before my son goes to College the have a functioning artificial kidney....and I want to visit Egypt... 8)
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: angieskidney on November 19, 2006, 11:44:14 PM
angies - *hugs* to you...
:thx; :cuddle;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: sandman on November 20, 2006, 01:49:25 AM
I wish there was no such thing as "money".  Money has corrupted the human race in every way imaginable.  This includes separation of our societies according to the accumulation of wealth per each person, and this should not be.  Who eats and who goes hungry, who sleeps comfortably and who sleeps on the street, who lives and who dies, should not be determind by how much money we have.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sluff on November 20, 2006, 05:12:03 AM
I wish there was no such thing as "money".  Money has corrupted the human race in every way imaginable.  This includes separation of our societies according to the accumulation of wealth per each person, and this should not be.  Who eats and who goes hungry, who sleeps comfortably and who sleeps on the street, who lives and who dies, should not be determind by how much money we have.

Simplistic but true. My son always says the same thing and he's only 16. Why is it we can see this but politicians can't? I guess thats a discussion for another thread.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on November 20, 2006, 06:08:39 AM
I would love to go around Africa with Bono (from U2) and do the relief work and public awareness stuff he is passionate about.  I think that would be really cool and very rewarding.

Something else I'd like to do is (once I have a nursing degree) is visit various countries and do relief work and health missions, like vaccinations, public health stuff, etc. 

I'd quite like to go round Africa without that self serving publicity seeking self appointed voice of the world's conscience and New Labour toady known as Bono. ( Oh...and  why would anyone adopt a name to make them sound like a dog biscuit?)
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: mcjane on December 18, 2006, 09:51:01 PM
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( Oh...and  why would anyone adopt a name to make them sound like a dog biscuit?)
    :lol;  Good one.

I wish for every animal shelter in the world to become a no kill shelter.

Please spay or neuter your pets & don't buy dogs or cats at a pet shop, go to a shelter & adopt or buy in person from a private breeder.

Lets put those cruel breeding farms out of business.

That's what I wish for.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: goofynina on December 18, 2006, 10:07:02 PM
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( Oh...and  why would anyone adopt a name to make them sound like a dog biscuit?)
    :lol;  Good one.

I wish for every animal shelter in the world to become a no kill shelter.

Please spay or neuter your pets & don't buy dogs or cats at a pet shop, go to a shelter & adopt or buy in person from a private breeder.

Lets put those cruel breeding farms out of business.

That's what I wish for.

I second that motion your honor  :wine;  MCJANE FOR PRESIDENT ;) 
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Lucinda on December 18, 2006, 10:24:45 PM
Angie,  Richard is right.....you can have your dream.

All sorts of things have happened to me no least of all three days ago I tripped and stabbed my left nipple with a candlestick.  Ouch!!  But this time last year I was worried I wouldn't get a job because I had been sick and I thought I wouldn't get married as well.

I got a terrific job and I was married at Hamilton Island in July and had a fabulous wedding.  We are going on a delayed honeymoon in three weeks to the Maldives and then I start on dialysis when I return.  Twelve months ago I wouldn't have expected any of this.

And Richard......you still have three weeks to go get her.  My best friend got hers back two days before his scheduled wedding and now they are married with two kids. Anything is possible.  It doesn't have to be a dream.

If I could have a wish granted it would be that everyone didn't wait for their wish to be granted but went out and made their wish happen.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Sluff on December 19, 2006, 04:52:04 AM
Something I try to live by...this is meant to be inspirational.

 Some things are out of control in life, but try to apply this thought process and see how much more you can acomplish in life.  Make this your New Years resolution. As long as you give your all in everything you do, that is all you can do and you have to except whatever limitation you have.

 Live life trying to make things happen, instead of dwelling on why you can't.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: mallory on December 19, 2006, 09:47:04 AM
Live life trying to make things happen, instead of dwelling on why you can't.

Good advice, Sluff, thanks.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: paris on December 19, 2006, 05:40:20 PM
Sluff always has good advice.   :thumbup;
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: mcjane on December 20, 2006, 07:27:46 PM
Thank you Madam Goofynina. I accept, but only if you will be my Vice President.

Then I will step down & make you president. You gal, are a born leader.

I love you for sharing my feelings.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on February 05, 2007, 05:13:07 AM
There's a saying in the UK eg. 'More money than Soft Mick. More cars than Soft Mick, more homes than....... had more wives than........ So, if I could have a wish granted I'd like to be Soft Mick. Although there always seems to be someone who has more than him, by implication he must have lots and lots of everything!
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: meadowlandsnj on February 05, 2007, 01:56:02 PM
I would love to go around Africa with Bono (from U2) and do the relief work and public awareness stuff he is passionate about.  I think that would be really cool and very rewarding.

Something else I'd like to do is (once I have a nursing degree) is visit various countries and do relief work and health missions, like vaccinations, public health stuff, etc. 

I'd quite like to go round Africa without that self serving publicity seeking self appointed voice of the world's conscience and New Labour toady known as Bono. ( Oh...and  why would anyone adopt a name to make them sound like a dog biscuit?)

At least he's doing something to publicize it.  I'll always like Bono for the work he does, the music of U2 and just because I think he's a genuine person with a good soul.  He doesn't seem to need publicity like some other stars who actively seek it out by getting into trouble or going pantyless in public. He doesn't get into drunken brawls or throw cell phones at hapless assistants, he doesn't wear a lot of bling and have an entourage of 50 hanging around him. I've liked U2 since the 70's when they first came out.  (Now I really feel OLD.)  I just don't understand why some people have such a hatred for him.  He is what he is. 

Donna
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: renal30yrs on February 06, 2007, 12:50:46 AM
Stem cell or similar technology now!!
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: kitkatz on February 06, 2007, 05:55:47 PM
I wish Kaiser would get their appointment crap straightened out NOW!
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: mcjane on February 06, 2007, 10:04:38 PM
Just thought of something else I wish for.

Hillary Clinton for President.

It is time for a BIG change.

Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: shay_pcb on February 07, 2007, 07:48:07 PM
I would wish for a healthy baby boy... :-\
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: livecam on February 10, 2007, 12:39:00 PM
I wish that the magic phone call would come for a friend today or tomorrow at the latest.  What could be better?
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: glitter on February 10, 2007, 07:10:10 PM
I would wish for money-I dont have to be rich though-just enough money to pay all my bills one year!!!
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: vandie on February 11, 2007, 05:11:06 PM
I wish that the magic phone call would come for a friend today or tomorrow at the latest.  What could be better?
Wow!  You are a great friend.
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Rerun on February 11, 2007, 06:18:08 PM
Just thought of something else I wish for.

Hillary Clinton for President.

It is time for a BIG change.


I wish George W. Bush Had a Son.   :)
Title: Re: If you could have a wish granted...
Post by: Lucinda on February 11, 2007, 06:22:37 PM
Way to go!!! A bush between two Clintons.  You go girl!! :thumbup;