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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Centers => Topic started by: Rerun on December 24, 2014, 07:59:50 AM
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I am at a DaVita and we got a bottle of Salt Free Seasoning. I love it. :thumbup;
What did you guys get? :santahat;
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Big ole NADA! hehehe
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A mini first aid kit
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Just a 4 hour 15 minute session paid for by Aetna. Thank you Aetna.
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I'm with American Renal. We got an insulated lunch bag with a t-shirt in it.
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I am at a DaVita and we got a bottle of Salt Free Seasoning. I love it. :thumbup;
The facility gave everyone a ... boxed meal (turkey sandwich/chips/cookie). Edit: And the faculty rearranged schedules so no one has to dialyze on Christmas and New Years Day.
At DaVita go the Salt Free + boxed meal and day off on the Holidays (replaced by Sunday).
Do you all give gifts of any type to the staff?
(I have about three techs that help me out on what seems like a completely random schedule.) I don't give a lot of gifts so I probably would not give gifts to the center staff unless its a basket or something once I get a kidney and stop dialysis.
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Edit: And the facilty rearranged schedules so no one has to dialyze on Christmas and New Years Day.
And to think that I always thought the schedule was rearranged so no one on the clinic staff had to work Christmas or New Years Day ;D
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Also forgot to mention that that DaVita Salt Free Seasoning has a ton of garlic. I like garlic but it was way more than I expected. We shook it on some edamame rather than salt and didn't like the outcome.
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I go to DCI Inc, Columbia, MO. Everyone got a Co coffee cup filled with candy, toothbrush, and a $25 gift card.
I give them watermellons during the growing season. 35 lb yellow flesh, look normal on the outside. Taste is not near as strong as red melon. They like it.
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The staff says they can't accept anything, but I give the ones that help me a gift card to Starbucks anyway. It is on the QT but they appreciate it.
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My DaVita center presented a metal beverage cup with the company logo on it and inside was the salt-free seasoning.
I gave my medical team bags of homemade candy for the holidays.
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Although I'm a home patient, Davita gave all home patients the seasoning salt and a healthy eating easy meals cook book. I did not try the seasoning salt yet but will once I cook something that only I will be eating. Do not want to mess up my name (Execellent Cook). :laugh:
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Hi we got a muffin to scoff while on dialysis but the nurses and carers are just brill i got them mini cribs in like a ring box very nice have a lovely new year all of yous :bandance; :waving;
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I made treat bags for everyone including staff in the center. We had a small meal of pin wheels, grapes and cookies with a small soda. We also had a patient gift exchange. I gave my person a necklace with a pendant. I received beautiful three wooden boxes from my secret Santa. From Fresenius itself nada, nothing.
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Frank got a Christmas coffee cup with a candy cane, a cookie, and 2 Hershey kisses. We gave the staff a basket I put together with Ghirardelli chocolate, gourmet cookies and other treats.
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We are very lucky to have the best nurses at our Fresenius clinic. :bow; We couldn't afford to get them anything last year, too overwhelmed receiving our training to do home-hemo and dealing with the death of my mother at the same time. :'( For Christmas, they delivered and setup the NxStage cycler and Pureflow machine for our first home session the day after Christmas. I'd have to say, that was a pretty big gift they gave us, never received a gift quite like that from anyone before! Very generous! Of course our insurance is paying for it but still...nice they came the day after Christmas to help us get started. :)
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The staff says they can't accept anything, but I give the ones that help me a gift card to Starbucks anyway. It is on the QT but they appreciate it.
I once had my mother buy gift cards and drive me back over to a hospital where I had major surgery so that I could give them to the two nurses who had taken such good care of me. It was the holidays and they deserved it. And then, because I was so happy with the surgeon, I asked what his favorite charity was and gave in his name. He was blown away by that but I really was grateful to have him for a surgeon, he treated me like a real humanbeing and not some piece of meat. I was in a generous mood that year, a happy one as I had a very good job and a lot to share back then. Don't have as much now...kind of depressing.
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Our center rearranged all our dialysis-sessions, so that no one had to dialyze on Christmas Day and New Years Day.
That was very much appreciated and I am also glad, that for our center it did not necessitate the Christmas season or any other season,
for the nurses to be very helpful & polite, because the nurses at our center are always extremely helpful, very kind
and they explain everything they do on each and every occassion... I am very happy with "my" dialysis-nurses and their kind helpfulness ...
... and their added humanitarian care makes it much easier for me to travel to the dialysis-center three times a week without any trepidation ...