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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Cordelia on March 08, 2012, 11:40:32 AM
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Today was the first time I really, REALLY gushed blood after treatment with my fistula. I didn't panic though, which was good. There was blood dripping all over the floor, blood all over the pillowcase LOL LOL
Well, it finally got under control but boy oh boy that was a weird feeling. I had just put my sweater on (thank goodness its black colored) and felt a warm trickle down my wrist and to my fingers. Felt wet too, I look down and there's blood dripping LOL
Anyways, it got under control. I had to sit for awhile longer, but eventually it stopped.
If all goes well with my next month's labs they will decrease my time from 3:45 for my sessions to 3.5 hrs, that would make me so happy! I think I could handle havng another 15 mins knocked off my time!!!!!!!! :bow; :cheer:
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Good on you staying all calm and collected!
Didn't Meinuk coin the term 'a Carrie moment'? You've just survived yours, humor intact. Well done! :beer1;
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I like that..... a Carrie moment! :rofl;
Carl has definitely had those.
Welcome to the club.
Aleta
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I think it's important to have a sense of humor about all this stuff. Otherwise, it can really make you feel like you're goin' crazy :P So, why not laugh? :rofl;
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lol I've had a couple of "Carrie Moments" over the years - but no pigs were involved and nobody died!!!
It's funny because blood has this habit of taking just a tiny bit of it to seem like a bucketfull AND you don't feel it when you bleed, until as you say the wet drippy feeling, or someone yells at you (as happened with me once or twice). Normally I was really good at clotting within two minutes each and every time, but just once or twice I'd think I'm all good, I'd walk from chair to scale and leave a trail of red... oops!
Hopefully an isolated experience!!
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I must have had mine yesterday when I forgot to disconnect my drain line from the saline bag and attach it to the main drain line, and I continued to be oblivious to the fact until I could hear a sudden woosh of fluid. I look up to find to my horror that the saline bag is huge, filled with yellow fluid and gushing the same fluid absolutely everywhere. I scream down to my husband while I sit there helplessly watching it go everywhere. My husband comes up, clamps the leak shut with his hand, but then some escapes, squirts all over me. He can't do anything, because he's holding the bag shut, and then I suddenly think of the waste bin that my nurse insisted I have near me in case I ever need to puke. So my pristine puke bin gets Christened in another mannet. We decided to abandon the treatment because everything was contaminated with drain fluid. Of course, when .i talk to my nurse, he tells me how I should have switched out the saline bag and saline spike but I think that we did the right thing because there was a very real risk of cross-contamination. Anyway, the thing that took longest to clean up was not the fluid, but instead the fluid that flicked out of the needles as I was discarding them into the Sharps box. Usually I am pretty careful at checking, but it was just as all the details about the new iPad were being released and I was sidetracked by listening to that! I inderstand that new cassettes are being released to overcome this, but obviously mine are the old ones!
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lol I've had a couple of "Carrie Moments" over the years - but no pigs were involved and nobody died!!!
It's funny because blood has this habit of taking just a tiny bit of it to seem like a bucketfull AND you don't feel it when you bleed, until as you say the wet drippy feeling, or someone yells at you (as happened with me once or twice). Normally I was really good at clotting within two minutes each and every time, but just once or twice I'd think I'm all good, I'd walk from chair to scale and leave a trail of red... oops!
Hopefully an isolated experience!!
LOL a trail of red! :rofl;
Yup, you're right, you think you're good and you walk away and whamo! LOL :rofl; That's what happened to me too! ;D
Amanda, what you experienced must have been quite a scare! :o
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No, yours was scary, mine was just funny (albeit a little messy).
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No, yours was scary, mine was just funny (albeit a little messy).
OMG, I can just imagine it would have been a mess! :o