Bone Bucks - a thing of the past

[twirl]

bone bucks have been stopped --- I always gave mine away -- the reason -- Davita is having cut back -
there is no more money for rewards for good behavior at dialysis - so I got two free bone bucks because it was the last time - I spent them on Rerun -- I got a donated book with photos of puppies -- so I am mailing it to her if I ever go to the post office - please do not tell her - she likes surprises - the book has some photos taken in the 1970's  --- she will love it
no more bone bucks -- here goes the clinic - with no rewards--- we will all go crazy ---- 

[kimcanada]

bone bucks??

what happens if God forbid you lose your temper... do they take your bone bucks away??

[KICKSTART]

bone bucks ?  Twirl im sure you are a lovely person , but i dont understand half the things you say  Is it cause im British ?

[kimcanada]

Ummm I'm Canadian and poor Twirly Whirly losses me sometimes also


I need to sign up for Texas 101!

[monrein]

OK Twirl, tell them again about the stupid bone bucks and being made to feel like it's kindergarten all over again.

[twirl]

bone bucks  ---- point system for getting good lab reports  ---- in addition to smiley or frowny faces
                                                                                                                             

I am learning the languages of Canada and Britian

Texas is a unique Southern language  ya'll hear --  but monrein understands me just fine   

can you understand Tinah1968 and crawford ?  they speak Texan and Mibarra does too

[kimcanada]

I mostly get balled up on the food stuff and sometimes stores 

[monrein]

Seriously, understanding all types of accents even very foreign and very "broken" English ones,  is one of my strongest skills.  In restaurants, I often have to translate accents for my friends and I use the same shortcuts as the "foreigner" so if they don't use tenses I skip them too.  My friends think it's odd but it does come in handy.   I can imitate a few too but I don't unless the person I'm imitating is in on it and knows that I'm not making fun of them.  Often people will apologize for their "accent" but as I like to say..."Well your English is a lot better than my Mandarin or Swahili or Greek or whatever".

So yeah y'all I git whut twirl sez jus fiiiiine.!

[Rerun]

I get a present.... I get a present.....

                           

Thank you in advance!!!   

[twirl]

WAIT how did you know?    it was a secret and pm me your address    I know you were my secret santa pal but my computer took a nose dive and took your address with him/her


DID DAVID13 TELL YOU OR WAS IT KIMMIE ?  ( i know it was not monrein - she is too classy to tell a secret )

and kimmie is getting grits and rotel  ----- ( I think I will send her the hot rotel - don't ya'll go and tattle on me)

[dwcrawford]

Crawford Plays a lot... you never know what is real.  But to set matters straight Crawford pretty well speaks Standard American English unless he's playing Texas.  I like it all.

My nurse today was Persian.  Lovely lady with a beautiful accent.

[kimcanada]

I used to be classy!  Well kinda classy, well I always say scuse me when I toot 

[dwcrawford]

lol..... can't beat that for classy kim

[kimcanada]

    

[Romona]

I can't understand a word that Canadian Kim says!

[jbeany]

Come join my center, twirl - we just started Bingo with our lab results. Best phos, Ideal calcium, Necessary albumin, Great Potassium, and Optimal fluids.  Anyone who gets them all gets entered in a prize raffle.  Maybe I can use your left over bone bucks to buy a vowel!

[twirl]

I would gladly give them to you but I gave them to another patient and she died having parathyroid surgery -
she used the bucks to get things for her son ---
 

[kimcanada]

Romona you are such a trouble maker!!!!

[twirl]

Romona you are such a trouble maker!!!!

but she speaks the truth 

[hurlock1]

As far as I know they never had bone bucks at fresenius. But we do get stars if we do good. I get stars every time. (almost) Never got any bone bucks. Haven't even heard of'em 'til today. Ah'mona ask about'em tomorrow. I always heard that Davita was the redhead step-brother of the dialysis community, but they quit giving them anyway. CUT BACKS, What are gonna do about that?

[kitkatz]

If I get another damned smiley face on my blood work report I am going to scream,then laugh hysterically, then the men in the white coats will come take me away!

[okarol]

Whoever invented Bone Bucks was a Bonehead. 

[kitkatz]

There once was a woman by the name of Twirl,
Who thought she would give bone bucks a whirl.
She discovered to her ever widening dismay
The dietician would not let her give them away.

[dwcrawford]

I tried to figure it out on my own, but I can't.... what the heck is a bone buck?

[kitkatz]

Twirl's dietitian had started a program where she rewarded people with something she called bone bucks.  They were called bone bucks because they were given to people for good phosphorous levels, which affect the bones of kidney patients.  Twirl thought it was silly and would give any bone bucks she received to another patient.