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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: bjp81757 on December 20, 2015, 12:55:37 AM
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Met my brother at College Station to see an A&M basketball game. Did my PD exchange in the back of my Yukon. Could not have felt better about it. Packed my stuff in a small overnight bag. Threw the bag of solution on the dash to keep it warm and headed off for a three hour drive. Got back a little late so the last exchange was a little behind schedule, but kind of felt like I finally won one
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Hello.... :welcomesign; to IHD....
Glad you're finding the dreaded dialysis manageable....
My mum was on PD....
Hope to see you around here a lot....
Darth... Moderator...
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Congratulations on your newly found freedom and success, bjp81757! Like they say, "Everything is BIGGER in Texas!" :yahoo;
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Congratulations. :bandance; :bandance; :bandance; :bandance;
I believe it is important to take this kind of control and not let the Big D take complete control of your life.
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You didn't kind of win one you did win one. It's easy to let this damn disease dominate your life the true courage is to stand up to it and find a way to have a life too. Dialysis ain't for sissies. Congrats on having a fine time I hope you have many more.
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I am quickly learning that I have come to the right place. People that understand what I face because they face the same thing. Through 6 years of in-center hemo, I made friends and we compared our experiences, but during treatments I never really felt like talking. I also never felt like I was i control of anything. PD has been a welcome change. Started college a couple of years ago at age 56, I have had to take it slow and choose class times and classes carefully because on treatment days I was wiped out and the other days had little energy. Now I feel comfortable tackling the more advance courses needed for my degree.
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It's a wonderful feeling to know that you can be mobile. That you are not tied down to doing your treatments only at home. It takes just a little bit of planning to pack the essentials, but it really isn't that much.
Being able to go out and about, be half normal again, to go wherever you wish and not have to watch the clock and worry about getting back home in time for treatment.
That's immense! I hope you continue to go and do, it really does energize you to get out in the world again.
Take Care,
Charlie B53
Moderator
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Think its great on you handling the dialysis in such a positive way. Role model for others. :bandance;