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« on: September 24, 2010, 02:11:06 PM »
Hello all, I'm new to the forum.  I'm a Renal Social Worker in my first year of practice in the field, having worked primarily in community mental health previously.  There are a handful of reasons I wanted to join this forum, but ultimately it all comes back to the fact that I want to provide the best possible care to the people I serve.  If we are all the experts in our own lives, then I can't ask for more than to be educated by the experts on where they're at and what they need.  I love the community you have built here, and am grateful for the opportunity to participate and learn from you all. 

Warmest Regards,
Rachel
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2010, 02:54:50 PM »
And we are grateful for the opportunity to welcome you! :cuddle;
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"Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think?  I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken.  Or a duck.  Or whatever they're programmed to be.  You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of last week."
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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2010, 03:13:54 PM »
 :welcomesign;  Rachel    :waving;
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"Anything is possible, if  you  BELIEVE....."  ~~~Joel  Osteen

"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift..... That is why it is called the present"

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 Nov 1979 ~ Diabetes 
Apr. 2004- Nov 2010 ~ CAPD
Nov 9, 2010 ~  Received the  THE  GIFT OF LIFE at 
California Pacific  Medical  center  (CPMC)  in San  Francisco,  CA
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« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2010, 03:33:24 PM »
 :welcomesign;
good to know there are renal professionals like u out there!  :beer1; :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2010, 05:47:26 PM »
Hi, Rachel!  :welcomesign;  It's very nice to see you here. It's always so gratifying to see a professional who remembers the first rule: listen.
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August 1980: Diagnosed with Familial Juvenile Hyperurecemic Nephropathy (FJHN)
8.22.10:   Began dialysis through central venous catheter
8.25.10:   AV fistula created
9.28.10:   Began training for Home Nocturnal Hemodialysis on a Fresenius Baby K
10.21.10: Began creating buttonholes with 15ga needles
11.13.10: Our first nocturnal home treatment!

Good health is just the slowest possible rate at which you can die.

The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. The glass is just twice as large as it needs to be.

The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2010, 06:34:30 PM »
g'day and welcome Rachel. I have a soft spot for Social Workers - even though I think I've had need to speak to ours exactly once - because my mum was a senior social worker who ran a major hospital social work department for years. So good to have you with us to learn more to help your patients better!! Great to have you with us!

 :welcomesign;

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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

BE POSITIVE * BE INFORMED * BE PROACTIVE * BE IN CONTROL * LIVE LIFE!
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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2010, 07:44:15 PM »
Welcome Rachel, I'm glad you have a background in mental health.  You'll need it for this group!   >:D

So glad you are willing to learn.  Our diet isn't that bad if you like rice, chicken, white bread, and twinkies. Oh and eggs.

Hope you learn from us and we learn from you.

Rerun, Moderator            :welcomesign;
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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2010, 08:25:14 AM »
Welcome to our community, Rachel!   That was a warm and caring intro. :cuddle;   I am happy that your wholistic concern for your patients brought you to us.  Here you will be able to see situations from the patients' perspective.  There is lots of information, support and encouragement here.  You are now part of our IHD family :grouphug;  Please take advantage of all this site has to offer.  Keep reading, and please, keep posting.




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« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2010, 09:50:09 AM »
Welcome to the group, Rachel!
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« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2010, 09:53:54 AM »
Welcome, Thanks for the services.  Is good to know that.
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« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2010, 09:57:41 AM »
It's real good to have you join us!
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Uninterrupted in-center (self-care) hemodialysis since 1982 -- 34 YEARS on March 3, 2016 !!
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No transplant.  Not yet, anyway.  Only decided to be listed on 11/9/06. Inactive at the moment.  ;)
I make films.

Just the facts: 70.0 kgs. (about 154 lbs.)
Treatment: Tue-Thur-Sat   5.5 hours, 2x/wk, 6 hours, 1x/wk
Dialysate flow (Qd)=600;  Blood pump speed(Qb)=315
Fresenius Optiflux-180 filter--without reuse
Fresenius 2008T dialysis machine
My KDOQI Nutrition (+/ -):  2,450 Calories, 84 grams Protein/day.

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« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2010, 01:18:43 AM »
Wecome to IHD. We are happy that you joined us and glad to have you here. Oh, if only all dialysis techs and social workers would join us, it would make for better communication between them and the dialysis patients.
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One day at a time, thats all I can do.
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« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2010, 01:44:34 PM »
 :welcomesign;
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2010, 06:45:00 PM »
Welcome RachelSWm, its nice to have a SW coming to to site. :grouphug;
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As I was coming out the Nephrologist office, I thought the sky was falling.
Knew I was going on dialysis since November 1999.
Had a fistula put in January 2000.
Been on 4-1/2 hour dialysis since August 28, 2001. (They took out 35Kg that single week)

Maria hasbeen on hemodualysis since January, 2005
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