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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: tbarrett2533 on May 25, 2011, 06:54:30 PM
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Hello everyone :flower;
On June 8, 2011 I will get my cath for PD! (Baxter supplies)
then its a week to heal, then about 2-3 weeks of training then........... NO MORE IN-CENTER HEMO FOR ME!!!! :yahoo; yea that's right its see ya later in-center hemo I sure will not miss you!! buh-bye :waving;
I am scared sh**tless about the unknown (which really is not that much I feel like I am almost a pro with CAPD already by what I have read about it)
a few worries.....
1. INFECTION!!
2. watching the clock to be sure that I do my exchanges "on time"
3. Calculating how many supplies I will need to pack when I want to go ANYWHERE for more than I few hours
(and no I do not want to do nocturnal b/c there are "other things" I like to be doing at night :-* ;)
well wish me luck and hope & pray for me that I fall in love with it!!!! (I sure hope I do) :pray;
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:bestwishes;
Aleta
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Please post in detail what your experiences are like.... day by day.
I will following in your footsteps shortly (maybe) (hoping) I am just as tired of HD.
Good luck!!! :bestwishes;
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All the best. Hope your PD experience is a good one!
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Good luck! I enjoy PD myself. I find I could do a manual exchange in 30 minutes, start to finish. if I was really in a rush, I would put the IV pole up as high as possible, then sit on the floor. It would fill QUITE quickly. I still get a kick at when I drain in the morning after my cycler run and pull off 3700-4000ml... That's over a GALLON of liquid in the body.. Holy hell, that just impresses me.
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I'm halfway through my Baxter training. This first week has been learning manual exchanges. Next week will be with the cycler. I'm getting my first shipment of supplies tomorrow and will be doing manual exchanges solo this weekend. It's easy...they give you a large poster with step-by-step instructions you can pin to the wall until you have it down pat. (I'm still relying on the poster so I don't forget any steps! ;) )
I'd say if you are only going to be learning manual exchanges that one week of training will be enough. As for watching the clock, I bought a $4 digital timer at the drug store...set the time for the dwell and quit watching the clock.
One week between your surgery and starting PD will be pushing it. I know you are anxious to get started but I'd recommend 2 weeks. I had 10 days between surgery and my first PD session and I was just barely healed. The exit site for the catheter is still not quite healed and it's been 16 days since surgery. If I hadn't been so sick and missing so much work I think waiting one more week would have been better and I generally have a pretty high pain threshold.
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I'm halfway through my Baxter training. This first week has been learning manual exchanges. Next week will be with the cycler. I'm getting my first shipment of supplies tomorrow and will be doing manual exchanges solo this weekend. It's easy...they give you a large poster with step-by-step instructions you can pin to the wall until you have it down pat. (I'm still relying on the poster so I don't forget any steps! ;) )
I'd say if you are only going to be learning manual exchanges that one week of training will be enough. As for watching the clock, I bought a $4 digital timer at the drug store...set the time for the dwell and quit watching the clock.
One week between your surgery and starting PD will be pushing it. I know you are anxious to get started but I'd recommend 2 weeks. I had 10 days between surgery and my first PD session and I was just barely healed. The exit site for the catheter is still not quite healed and it's been 16 days since surgery. If I hadn't been so sick and missing so much work I think waiting one more week would have been better and I generally have a pretty high pain threshold.
Nah,
Italked to the PD nurse and the week after surgery we will do "all the paperwork" training, I know that it will be several weeks before I can use it..... the surgeon as well as the PD nurse told me the average person waits 3 weeks before using it :)
I CANT'T WAIT!!!! :cheer:
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Please post in detail what your experiences are like.... day by day.
I will following in your footsteps shortly (maybe) (hoping) I am just as tired of HD.
Good luck!!! :bestwishes;
and i planned on doing this anyway to help people like me who were on the fence about doin PD or not, hopefully I can help someone else make the choice by sharring my day to day experience with it!! :)
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I CANT'T WAIT!!!! :cheer:
I know what you mean...I was ready to get on with it too! The training materials are pretty much designed for anyone over the age of 10 who hasn't ever heard of PD. It's likely that you will find most of the training a real snooze fest. Bring a book and/or a pillow.
:beer1;
...oh wait, I'm not supposed to drink beer anymore... :P
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hahahaha :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
the PD nurse says to me, "I don't know what I am going to do with a person on PD who is smart enough to know what they are doing."
at least she has some confidence in me ;D
and i drink shots...... annnnnd, IDC i am going to live my life regardless of kidney failure, I say you wanna beer, you have it!!! everything is fine in moderation :beer1;
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Maybe this should go in the "what they didn't tell you about PD" thread, but Baxter makes you take a test after every lesson! Don't say I didn't warn you. Are you smarter than a 5th grader? :rofl;
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Hello everyone :flower;
On June 8, 2011 I will get my cath for PD! (Baxter supplies)
then its a week to heal, then about 2-3 weeks of training then........... NO MORE IN-CENTER HEMO FOR ME!!!! :yahoo; yea that's right its see ya later in-center hemo I sure will not miss you!! buh-bye :waving;
I am scared sh**tless about the unknown (which really is not that much I feel like I am almost a pro with CAPD already by what I have read about it)
a few worries.....
1. INFECTION!!
2. watching the clock to be sure that I do my exchanges "on time"
3. Calculating how many supplies I will need to pack when I want to go ANYWHERE for more than I few hours
(and no I do not want to do nocturnal b/c there are "other things" I like to be doing at night :-* ;)
well wish me luck and hope & pray for me that I fall in love with it!!!! (I sure hope I do) :pray;
PD is an excellent choice. I did CAPD (manual exchanges) for 6 ½ yrs. Piece of cake.
Since I had plenty of time between the time I had my cath placed and when I needed to start treatment, I had training 1-2 days/week, and no more than 2hrs at a time.
I didn't start dialysis for 6 weeks after surgery, so my cath was fully healed. It's better if you can wait a little longer, because if you start too soon, you increase the chances of a hernia.
As far as infections go, just follow the close all doors, wash and sanitize your hands AND wear a mask protocols and you should be good.
In my time on CAPD I never had peritionitis. I had a minor infection on the exit site. According to the culture taken, it was a "water infection" meaning I didn't dry the exit site completely before putting a new dressing on it. I learned my lesson!!!!
At first, ordering supplies was such a chore I didn't like one bit. But after a while you get used to it.
I never had a schedule to do my exchanges. well in the beginning I did. The nurse who trained me said every 4hrs. I hated to have to stop what I was doing to run home to do an d exchange. But, then when I had my next clinic visit, the nurse in charge of unit was there.... She changed my exchange schedule to NO SCHEDULE at all. She told me "I want you fit dialysis around your life and not live your life around dialysis" :2thumbsup; :yahoo; I was told that as long as I had my 4 exchanges/treatments in a 24hr period, and no less than 2hr dwell time, I would be just fine.
That's exactly what I did. My Kt/V numbers were always great!!
By no means am I suggesting you guys to do the same, not without first checking with your nurses. The reason I was allowed to go without a schedule is because I was a Med-high transporter. A medium-high transporter can go long hours (in dwell/dializing) without re-absorbing the solution.
You''ll do great tbarrett2533!!!!
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Maybe this should go in the "what they didn't tell you about PD" thread, but Baxter makes you take a test after every lesson! Don't say I didn't warn you. Are you smarter than a 5th grader? :rofl;
I had a quiz after each lesson, which was discussed with nurse afterwards.
Nothing to worry about!