A new reality TV show: "Kidney Kings"!

[chiawana]

So my husband and I came up with an idea for a new reality show. We were watching Hell's Kitchen tonight and I said they should have a competitive show about people learning to use the Nxstage hemodialysis system. The first person or team who can set it up and perform an alarm-free treatment wins . . . a free Nxstage system? Free supplies for life? Hey, it's no worse than some of the other tripe on TV.


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[galvo]

Or, perhaps, The Big Kidney House - the winner gets a new kidney!

[Jean]

Good thinking both of you!!!

[Poppylicious]

Or, perhaps, The Big Kidney House - the winner gets a new kidney!

... Love this!

[boswife]

funny thing,,, i'd LOVE the show..hehe  Though since we're so good at NS, if we won we'ed be donating the kidney to one of you guys here    On the other hand..lol,  now that i think of it... we REALLY take our time at set up and all so would just be a big bore..lol

[natnnnat]

I can so imagine that could work.  I can see it on Australian tv for sure!  And maybe there'd be more kidney donations?

[jbeany]

I think the prize should be life time insurance coverage for the one on the nxstage, and for any possible living donor.   

[deniferfer]

Hey how about just a general reality show where they follow our lives and get to see the up and down of kidney failure. To show how important it is to donate is and how it could change and save lives. I know in my life something is always going on and would make a great reality show. I often joke how that my life needs to be a sitcom and cuz it just doesn't seem real at times!!   

[Poppylicious]

Hey how about just a general reality show where they follow our lives and get to see the up and down of kidney failure. To show how important it is to donate is and how it could change and save lives. I know in my life something is always going on and would make a great reality show. I often joke how that my life needs to be a sitcom and cuz it just doesn't seem real at times!!

I think this is a brilliant idea.  Not just a one-off documentary or interview but a real soul-baring follow in my footsteps for a year kind of show, with a variety of people (old, children, those holding down jobs and caring for a family, etc.) so that the general public really get to understand what it's like for everybody involved.  Maybe you should pitch an idea to a local channel?!

 

[Cordelia]

Love it!!!!!           

[galvo]

Yeah! We could call it: Days of our Kidneys[.

[deniferfer]

I think this is a brilliant idea.  Not just a one-off documentary or interview but a real soul-baring follow in my footsteps for a year kind of show, with a variety of people (old, children, those holding down jobs and caring for a family, etc.) so that the general public really get to understand what it's like for everybody involved.  Maybe you should pitch an idea to a local channel?!

 
[/quote]

Thanks, you got exactly what I was thinking and I also should what someone who donates gos thur. There are so many myths about donation and people don't understand the daily struggles that people with CKD go thur.... the question is how to write it to propose it to them and what channel...Also I think it would be cool to have people world wide tell their stories... 

[smcd23]

Yeah! We could call it: Days of our Kidneys[.

I literally snorted and laughed out loud when I read that! I can just see the hour glass turning, or better yet, the little wheel thingie on the front of the hemo machine while they play that dreadful music like they do on Days of our Lives. Then the voice saying something like "Blood through the dialysis machine increases the Days of our Kidneys" I am giggling over here, must be from my lack of sleep and bordem. For some reason this mental image has me tickled!

[AnnieB]

Yeah! We could call it: Days of our Kidneys[.

 

[MightyMike]

I learned everything in 3 days but had to stay in training for 2 weeks to get back water samples and get supplies delivered.