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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis - NxStage Users => Topic started by: donster on August 28, 2010, 08:06:37 AM
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Everything around seems to get a nickname. We're still in the middle of training but when it comes home, we've decided to name our SystemOne as Billy the Ex-Urinator, :rofl; a little tongue and cheek hommage to the A&E reality/docudrama. Does your NxStage have a nickname?
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Wall-e
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Damn it
Thats what I call it anyway........Damn it now what!!!
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Some rejected names:
R2-Pee2
Kid(ney) Rock
Billy the Kidney
Mr. Clean
Hal 9000
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Donster...I love the rejected names. I think I'll adopt R2P2 for our NxStage. :rofl;
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Mother Sucker (yes, it is supposed to rhyme).
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Mine was Little Leech aka Petite Sangsue in French.
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I will call mine (in centre) from now on ....... The torturnator!
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My husband calls his "Count Vlad" which is Dracula's name.
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I call him Little Wayne
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In clinic mine was called Fred.
But I was the only one who named it according to the nurses.
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My Baxter overnight cycler has always been referred to as "Polly" as in Polly the pump. I reckon it sounds better than The Machine!!!! And when I do manual bags, I like that referred to a "swap", not a "bag change" - sounds better. I know, semantics!
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When you do bags? How often is that? I hardly ever do bags. Maybe once every 3 months at most and that's always due to a system failure (bad conductivity, leak in tub, etc) and it's hard to keep that up now that I'm working 4 dayss (12 hours a day) a week.
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We have some on hand but use pureflow 99% of the time. We most recently used bags
1. When waiting for aami/endotoxin lab results.
2. When a batch was to expire during treatment and needed less than 5 liters to finish.I switched over to 1 heated bag to finish.
Someday we will take a vacation and take our machine and some bags with us. Until then, they're for emergencies.
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JohnJ, I think you are asking me when I use bags - and I think I may have confused you (sorry) - I am on PD, not haemo.
Sometimes when travelling we leave Polly (the overnight cycler) at home and I take the smaller manual bags. I'll dialyse at home overnight normally and then that afternoon, run a 1500ml bag through for 4 hours and drain, with nothing at night. The next day I might do one or two the same, and then back on Polly that night.
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:oops; And I see from checking the top of the page I'm the one that is confused. Okay, I confess - I am not a Nxstage user and there in lies the problem. I should have kept out of this thread. Sorry, everyone
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JohnJ my husband is on Nxstage and we only do bags. I'm quite happy that is all our center offers. Not sure I would want to be mixing batches on top of all the other stuff we do. I think the only down thing about bags is the room you need to store them all. We get about 80+ boxes every month takes up about 4 foot by 10 foot space in my dining room.
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My machine is KENNI (kidneys ended now NxStage instead)
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Mine was Dorothy. There's no place like home! She sat on my Pureflow named Toto (always at Dorothy's feet.) The shiny centrifuge was the Tin Man, of course. My cat, peering around the door to the room and waiting to get yelled at for trying to sneak in, was the Cowardly Lion.
Depending on the day, I was either the Scarecrow or the Wicked Witch.
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For lack of anything more original I call mine 'Squeaky'... for obvious reasons.
My fistula has a name too, but I can't repeat that here.
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I call mine Sir Lancelot.
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We named ours "Perk" as in Purcolator
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kn filter, just like the air filter/oil filter company, it is supposed to clean the air of particles for your engine, just like my hemo machine except it cleans the blood well before going back in. :2thumbsup;
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Queen Bathory, or Elizabeth for short... She was known as the blood queen. Sort of the female version of Dracula
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i usually call mine Piece of Shit, and when its gotton me up for the third or fouth night i call it lovingly stupid Piece of Shit.... but i wouldnt trade it for in center hemo no way
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This made me chuckle!!!
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i usually call mine Piece of Shit, and when its gotton me up for the third or fouth night i call it lovingly stupid Piece of Shit.... but i wouldnt trade it for in center hemo no way
AHAHAHHAHAH :clap;