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« Reply #25 on: September 04, 2010, 05:49:20 PM »
with mine, the cuff was cut and pulled out. I saw it after it came out.  The doctor actually asked me if I wanted to keep the line.  I hope he was joking
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« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2010, 06:23:09 PM »
Never had one fall out and I've had two of them.
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« Reply #27 on: September 04, 2010, 08:19:37 PM »
On the first day at my new center, the nurse was going over all the standard things, and telling me what to do if my catheter gets pulled out. I asked him if it was at all probable that my catheter would be pulled out, since it tunnels at least 3 inches under my skin, then does almost a 180-degree turn into my jugular, and it feels pretty darn attached. He chuckled and said something to the effect of, "Well, no, but you never know."

I guess I can imagine it with the ones higher up toward the neck, though.
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« Reply #28 on: September 05, 2010, 06:11:02 AM »
Hi RightSide,

My nephrologist's name is Dr. Dirk Hentschel at Brigham/Faulkner. He's absolutely wonderful. If you caught the first episode of Boston Medical on ABC this summer, he was in that - at Brigham.
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