Old Crap Machines

[Rerun]

I did not have a very good night!  I was on machine 12 for about 2 hours when I started feeling really HOT.  I'm usually freezing.  I called the tech over to see what the temperature of the machine was.... it was set at 36.6 but was 38.1.  WTF?  When she started messing with it, it went into bypass!  How can I trust a machine that can't hold a preset temperature to actually go into bypass before my red blood cells start splitting? 

So they switched out machine 12 for machine 11 and a half hour later it was determined that the machine was not sucking bicarb.  So again, we switched out machine 11 for 7. 

This is crap! 

How can people sleep on night shift when we can't trust the machines?  I've heard for 3 years we are getting new ones.  What has to happen?

I'm going to make sure machine 12 gets a new thermostate and not just a sign saying "Machine OK for use". 

 

[cariad]

What a nightmare. I'm sorry, Rerun. You deserve much, much more than this.

Good luck, and keep after them about those machines! 

[knittingdan]

 ???I'm pretty sure I've had that particular machine a few times myself, Rerun.  Good to know that L---- (the guy who fixes the machines) is on top of it 

[Dragonette]

I did not have a very good night!  I was on machine 12 for about 2 hours when I started feeling really HOT.  I'm usually freezing.  I called the tech over to see what the temperature of the machine was.... it was set at 36.6 but was 38.1.  WTF?  When she started messing with it, it went into bypass!  How can I trust a machine that can't hold a preset temperature to actually go into bypass before my red blood cells start splitting? 

So they switched out machine 12 for machine 11 and a half hour later it was determined that the machine was not sucking bicarb.  So again, we switched out machine 11 for 7. 

This is crap! 

How can people sleep on night shift when we can't trust the machines?  I've heard for 3 years we are getting new ones.  What has to happen?

I'm going to make sure machine 12 gets a new thermostate and not just a sign saying "Machine OK for use". 

 

Miss Rerun,

Are you sure you don't go to my first center, because it sounds like it. Give em hell Miss Lady!

[texasstyle]

I'm amazed at how much many of you know about the way the dialysis process works. (not sucking out enough biocarb? Huh?... lol) I guess it's through time and experience and the will to want to learn. I've been trying to learn for my spouses sake, but not actually being the one getting D makes it a little harder. I have learned so much here though from everyone sharing their stories.

[Brightsky69]

Wow.....I don't know too much about Hemo. I always did PD. I had to do hemo for a few months here and there. This one unit I went to was....how do I put it nicely? I can't. It was bad.