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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Ang on May 19, 2007, 02:16:26 AM
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just curious to see if any one or every one has a nickname for their dialysis machine.
mine is affectionately known as "pumpa"
not very original,
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THE MACHINE, or the four letter word with er on the end !
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Dont have a machine ..sorry .but if you are short of names .....
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Ours all have names. Mine is Popeye and my RO is Olive Oyl, which I named.
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Sparky
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I don't know what I will call my NxStage machine, but if I had ended up getting the Fresenius 2008"K", I would have called it Kay or Katie. I know it's corny, but oh well.
Adam
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I have used all four machines in my pod at the center I never thought of naming any of them only thought of naming the experience on them. and you would have to as they say.. block me if I told you :-X Boxman55
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I am like boxman in that we share the same feeling (I think) toward the bit$#. I can accept the fact that this machine is a huge part of my life and I will not mistreat it but I do not like it in any way and my nameing of it/them would most likely offend the majority of the readers here so I shall refrain.
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We call her Slurpee.
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Hephs first cycler was called Boris, we haven't named this one yet, I think it looks like a griselda but Heph say's it's definately a male because he doesn't want to share the bedroom with another women. You think cute, right! But then you think, OH, but you wouldn't mind sharing with another man! :rofl;
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We call her Slurpee.
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
Hysterical Chicken!
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My first PD machine was named Fred. I call the one I have now "CY" for cycler. Yep, not original at all.
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I affectionately call mine Bruno, after a late uncle that worked with water (and huge rocks and dirt from the North Sea floor) to connect the island I was born on to the mainland. Bruno has been very good to me for nearly 2 years! :thx; :bandance; :cuddle; :bow; :2thumbsup;
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I call mine "The Big Machine" i wrote a poem about it. I also called my catheter "Tubage"
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My center has 30 machines, im not smart enough to come up with 30 different names, unless I name them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc
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I think I'm going to call my NxStage "Sir Lancelot" I also call my catheter "Kathy". I don't know if I'll call my graft anything. Oh, geeze I need a life :urcrazy;.
Adam
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I think I'm going to call my NxStage "Sir Lancelot" I also call my catheter "Kathy". I don't know if I'll call my graft anything. Oh, geeze I need a life :urcrazy;.
Adam
Wouldnt the natural progression be "Grafty"? :bandance;
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"Pain in the arm" is more likely!
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My cycler's called Dave, haven't a clue why, seemed as good a name as any.
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I haven't named my machine, but I am open to suggestions. I really like Slurppy. Can I use that name Chicken Little?
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I haven't named my machine, but I am open to suggestions. I really like Slurppy. Can I use that name Chicken Little?
Of course. It's Slurpee though. The pee part is very important. ;)
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My cycler's called Dave, haven't a clue why, seemed as good a name as any.
Dave, welcome Dave...Must be holdover from the Movie 2001.
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As I dialyze in a different room each time, (I have demanded a private room and also make the tech take the needles out of the pack right in front of me, as I refuse to get AIDS or Hepatitis for the sake of saving them some time or being politically correst to other patients, namely this one lunatic called Angie, who claims that she can a transplant, but she doesn't want one, even though I've heard her begging the doctor to get her on the list., but he says no because of her condition. Hey, I'm on the transplant list, and those other peoplle aren't worth losing a kidney over, they wouldn't do it for me if the shoe were on the other foot) I know all machines in that Hell-hole as Satan, because if that center isn't hell on Earth, I don't know what is.
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My machine would have to be named after my 1st ex - wife DIANNE. The only difference is the machine sucks the blood out and returns it, the ex did not :thumbdown;
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I call mine Dave
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I think Vlad would be a good name for the machine. In fact, once I start home-hemo and get my machine, I'm going to give it a nameplate. "Hi, My Name is Vlad". :)
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Funny you should mention this - I nicknamed my machine "Paradise"
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Mine is called 'Murphy Brown'..My son has just gone through chemo, and when we got the all-clear I was really excited and I told my sons oncologist to name my machine and that is what he picked.. I have no idea why, but now it is known as Murphy... strange little fellow (lovely doctor though)..LIZ :waving;
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My machine would have to be named after my 1st ex - wife DIANNE. The only difference is the machine sucks the blood out and returns it, the ex did not :thumbdown;
:rofl; You made me laugh. ;D
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As I dialyze in a different room each time, (I have demanded a private room and also make the tech take the needles out of the pack right in front of me, as I refuse to get AIDS or Hepatitis for the sake of saving them some time or being politically correst to other patients, namely this one lunatic called Angie, who claims that she can a transplant, but she doesn't want one, even though I've heard her begging the doctor to get her on the list., but he says no because of her condition. Hey, I'm on the transplant list, and those other peoplle aren't worth losing a kidney over, they wouldn't do it for me if the shoe were on the other foot) I know all machines in that Hell-hole as Satan, because if that center isn't hell on Earth, I don't know what is.
Hmmm.....I don't think SATAN would be so kind as to keep you alive. Don't you agree???
I like to call my machine Geraldine Lee...... It fits well with Gilbert Francis.......
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Actually, accoring to the Christian Bible, you are alive in Hell but you are subjected to horrible torture. So, yes I stand by my nickanme for that detested machine that I hate, loathe and despise.
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I am on my second baxter. The first one was called Dave. This one's called strangley enough, Dave 2
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Fang Face
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I used to call my home hemo machine Little Leech or La Petite Sangsue which is the same thing in French.
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We call my NxStage machine "Mary". It's short for Bloody Mary.
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Wall-E
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Too bad it's not cute or friendly like Wall-E, huh?
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The center where I was dialyzed for a number of years had one young patient with a severe intellectual disability from Down's Syndrome. At the end of each treatment session she used to kick her machine and shout, "Jerk," so I guess that was a kind of nickname for the machine for her.
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As noted in my signature below: The little box of alarms
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I call mine the "Inglorious F***ing Bastard." Yes, I call that to HIS face (yes, Dialysis machines are male...it's men who cause most of the trouble in the world) He usually responds by having my needles burn until I beg for mercy.
On a side note, my friend the Greek Goddess has never said the D-word. She calls the center PF...the Piss Factory.
If there was any American ingenuity left in this country, you'd think someone would come up with a way to turn that into a fuel of some sort and help with this green effort enveloping the nation.
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i can't print here what i call mine my friend said i was to harsh and she has named it Dr Hook !
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oh noooo Ang. I just read your beginning to this thread and instantly the song from Willie Wonka and the Choc Factory popped in...the ompas or whatever and now I know it will linger for days.
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I usually call mine Bloody Mary.
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I've been thinking...R2D2. I am not imaginative with names at all....however the """Drill Sargent""" in Charlotte said we cannot call it a Machine, and I hear whoever has trained in Charlotte knows who the DS is. :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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this week it has been old F'er
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Marvin named his NxStage machine "Hercules" after the Greek hero who once cleaned a stable full of waste by diverting a river through it (washed out all the "stuff"). When we started home hemo, Marvin launched a "contest" among family and friends to name his machine, with all of them sending in suggestions. My mom is the one who submitted the name "Hercules." For "winning" the contest, my mom got to be Marvin's first visitor during a home treatment and the machine's middle name is her maiden name. Marvin came up with the "prizes," and everybody made a great big game of it. We are actually quite fond of Marvin's machine and speak of it affectionately. When he was in-center, he never named the machine.
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today it became Christine...locked up and would not let us change anything and kept showing 99 hours....after about 10 minutes of playing with buttons we called davita and said I wouldn't sit for 99 hours :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; and we finally got it...new machine next week...perfect alone run otherwise today.
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After much consternation on what to name my machine, I came up w/"Mother Sucker".
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After much consternation on what to name my machine, I came up w/"Mother Sucker".
good name :bandance;
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My Baxter PD machine is known as Super Sucker or SS.
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I tend to refer to my clinic's machines as the techs refer to them: "F***n' piece of s***!
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My Baxter PD machine is known as Super Sucker or SS.
:cheer: :2thumbsup; :clap; :rofl; :bow;
Five minutes later I'm still laughing. I need that smile. Super Sucker, My PD cycler makes this annoying pumping and sucking noise all night. I think it gets more action than I do. ;D
Renee
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I tend to refer to my clinic's machines as the techs refer to them: "F***n' piece of s***!
Ditto.
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I think when I get my NX stage machine I will name it Herbie. I am sure it is going to have idiosyncrasies just like the Disney Herbie did.