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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: kitkatz on January 19, 2008, 07:30:21 PM

Title: Access?
Post by: kitkatz on January 19, 2008, 07:30:21 PM

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Here is the official contest for longest running dialysis graft on IHD.com.

I have been on dialysis nine years, the second graft has been going 7 years!

Title: Re: Access?
Post by: Krisna on January 19, 2008, 10:30:38 PM

Graft?  What abt fistulas?  I've had my fistula 21 years!

Title: Re: Access?
Post by: kitkatz on January 19, 2008, 10:54:44 PM

No. not AV fistulas, grafts, with the tube in the arm! 

Title: Re: Access?
Post by: Krisna on January 19, 2008, 11:10:50 PM

Quote from: kitkatz on January 19, 2008, 10:54:44 PM

No. not AV fistulas, grafts, with the tube in the arm! 

I know.  I'm glad I haven't needed one of those yet!  I think 7 yrs is the longest I've ever heard anyone having a graft though.  Good job on keeping it functional!

Title: Re: Access?
Post by: jbeany on January 20, 2008, 12:06:20 PM

Well, I'm not going to qualify here - My first one lasted less than a week.  My second is on its last legs already - at just over a year of use.  I've had it for two years.

Title: Re: Access?
Post by: KT0930 on January 20, 2008, 12:33:35 PM

I've had mine for 27 years...oh wait, it hasn't functioned in over 25.  :rofl;