What do I do with this stuff?

[Brightsky69]

Hello Everyone!

In case you haven't heard.......I got my 2nd kidney transplant on the 19th of October. 

So anyway......what the heck do i do with all this dialysis solution?? My clinic won't allow Baxter to come pick it all up. I guess they don't want to pay for it.
The local dump won't take it. There is a ton of it. Whats an easy way to get rid of it all?

Thanks
J.

[okarol]

  You got a transplant?? Wow thats fabulous! Need more details!

I saw someone giving away Baxter stuff on Craigslist (I don't know if there are rules against it?)

[Brightsky69]

I was getting ready to walk out the door to work on Monday morning the 18th. My phone beeped that I had a voice mail. It was the transplant team letting me know that they "might" have a donor for me.
They told me they would call me back when they knew more. I went on to work and they did keep me informed about what was happening. Then they called me around 1pm that day and said Come on down to the hospital.
I raced down there but once I got there they kept postponing the surgery. I guess they couldn't get an OR.
So I didn't get my new kidney until the 19th around 4pm.

So far so good.   

[monrein]

    Great news!   May it pee forever! 

[paul.karen]

What great news. 

Im surprised that your clinic wont take the supplies for at the least training purposes.  if no one will take it drain the bags in the yard??

[Darthvadar]

Do you have a garden???... I'm told that the fluids are great for Roses, and other flowering shrubs and plants... Just pour one around the plant...

Congrats on the transplant....

Darth...

[peleroja]

Congratulations on your transplant!  Darthvader is right, plants love the dextrose in the solution, so water away.  If you don't have a garden, offer it to a neighbor with one.

[thegrammalady]

    congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Riki]

We got a shipment in the week before I had to stop PD.  The clinic wouldn't take them, because they're not allowed to, and Baxter wouldn't take them back.. There's still a wall of boxes in our basement.  We were told to just dump them in the toilet.

[chook]

First things first 
Congrats on your transplant Brightsky!!!!! Hope everything is going well for you!

And isn't it such a waste of resources that the solutions etc can't be returned?! They are all sealed and dated etc so what is the problem? My sister was using stoma products - to do with the bowel - and when she died no one wanted those back either. I just don't get it - throwing all this stuff out must add to the cost of it. We ended up giving some of the stoma products to the local hospital and community health.

[Darthvadar]

Couldn't agree with you more, Chook (Great name by the way!)...

What a waste!... I've often been given the wrong medication, and rather than take the sealed pack back for reuse, it's put into the disposal units at the pharmacy... Dreadful... Surely waste such as this is sinful... All of these things are dreadfully expensive, and it breaks my heart that things like this go to waste while there are sick people who do without...

Brightsky, would there be anybody who has to pay for all of this stuff, and could they be contacted and offered it???... I know that there are some websites that offer an opportunity to people to offer items they no longer need to those who need them... I know it's usually furniture, clothing, toys etc., but I don't see why something like this couldn't be put on....

I have a need for specialist toothpaste (only on prescription), and due to the Powers That Be's 'procedures' I always have surplus... I need less than a tube a month, but unless I take two tubes a month, the Health Service Executive won't pay for it!... So I bring the leftovers to the Dental Hospital where I'm a patient, and they're delighted to get it... This is an expensive product, so I'm glad it's not wasted.... Problem solved!!!...

Looks like it's the Garden for it all, Brightsky!.... Still, if it goes on the cabbages, potatoes, carrots, etc, it's not completely wasted!.... Carrots should be nicely sweet!!!!....

Good luck with your new kidney...

Darth...

[jbeany]

Yup, the only realistic option is to sweeten the garden with it.

Congrats on the new bean!

[Marina]

CONGRATS  on your  new  transplant!!!!   May it  last  you  an eternity!!!      

As  far  as the  supplies,  the  baxter  driver  told  me  that when  a patient  either  gets  a transplant  or  die,   the unit pays  baxter  to come  pick up the   solution  and  dispose  it  for  an  $85.00  fee.
They  can't  resell it.  Medical  supplies  aren't  to  be  resold  or  reused  once  they're  delivered  to  a patient's  home.  Yes,  even  IF  IT'S  STILL  SEALED  with the  diff.  color  tapes.
I'm  wondering  if  that's going   to  change  with the  new dialysis bundling  program.  HMMMMM

[Poppylicious]

Congratulations on the kidney!

 

As for the dialysis solution ... won't the local hospital/clinic take it for training purposes?  When Blokey stopped doing PD Baxter came and collected most of the stuff left over (there was a lot; we'd only had a delivery the week before) but the surplus (which wasn't in the shed when the Baxter chap came) went back to the hospital.  Granted, Blokey had to lug it there over a couple of days, but they use it for training so it seemed more worthwhile than twiddling our thumbs over it.

Again, yay! for the new kidney!

 

[Brightsky69]

Thanks everyone. My creatine was 1.9 today. Looking good!!   

We ended up pouring it all out in the lawn. And throwing all the other supplies away. I had like 2 box's of unopened mini caps plus drain bags, clamps, cassettes....all in the trash.

[RichardMEL]

such wonderful wonderful news! Another IHD transplant!!!

 
 
 
(can you tell I'm happy?!)

[okarol]

Thanks everyone. My creatine was 1.9 today. Looking good!!   

Yeah baby!! 

[tyefly]

Great news......  love those story...keep us informed ......

[Desert Dancer]

Congratulations on your transplant! 

The first thing that came to my mind was to donate it to a local low-cost health clinic. I know that here, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul runs a full-scale medical and dental clinic and they are a national (international?) organization. It probably wouldn't hurt to call them and find out if they accept donations of sealed medical supplies.

Aside from that, I've heard the acid base is great for gardens.