A funny/strange dream I had

[RichardMEL]

Just thought I'd share this quickly with everyone.

I woke up at around 0545 yesterday after quite an odd dream I had. Now usually if I have a dream that I could call Dialysis related it's usually something involves big gulps of iced water or maybe how I'd do things post successful transplant etc... but this dream was odd and I didn't really go to bed thinking about transplants or the like so it was unusual.

So here's what I dreamed:

I was in a hospital room.. not the O.R. but a room just off it. I was surrounded by doctors in their gowns and masks and suddenly a door opens and another comes in and exclaims "It's finally here!" and puts down in front of me a kidney. Now I KNEW it was a kidney from the context and all (and because it was a dream of course!) but what was odd was the kidney was packed in a meat tray and wrapped in plastic like it was at the supermarket!! Complete with a little label on it with a barcode (no, no price that I could see  ). So I ask the docs can they tell me anything about the donor and they read off the label like it's a list of ingredients and tell me it's a 30 year old male who died in a hotel swimming pool (!) and then all the doctors start laughing and cracking jokes like "Well we better stay away from THAT hotel!" and stuff...

and then I woke up. Very surreal.

Go figure...

but if I'm offered a kidney from a 30 year old male anytime soon I might just freak out.. or ask if a swimming pool or hotel was involved!! 

[Sluff]

Well regardless if someone passes away and offers a kidney to you, take it.    Sometimes part of a dream can be a sign.

[RichardMEL]

Well yes I intend to swim in a few hotel pools on my travels (and I don't give a rats who stares at my scar!) should the tx happen so... who knows!!

[KarenInWA]

Well yes I intend to swim in a few hotel pools on my travels (and I don't give a rats who stares at my scar!) should the tx happen so... who knows!!

I say, let 'em stare at your scar!  After all, there's nothing wrong with educating people, right?  Tell them what you've been through, and then they see you living in up while traveling and swimming in a luxurious hotel swimming pool (just don't do dead man's float!) and just think of the possibilities of what you can put in their minds!  Nothing wrong with that, hey?

Karen

[RichardMEL]

not really on topic  but in my mind the other week I did design a tshirt I would have made up after my transplant(whenever that might be)

on the front something like "DONATED ORGAN INSIDE" and maybe an arrrow pointing down to.. well.. ahem my crotch.. maybe point it to the or right depending on where the scar is

on the back: "Kidney Transplant on <date>" and "Please consider becoming an Organ Donor"

and wear it lots!

[paris]

You know that I think this is your year.  Maybe this is the first sign.  Keep your mind open and receptive.  I will keep thinking positive thoughts and crossing fingers.  I believe in signs.  And I believe in you.   2009 is the year!!

[Wattle]

 

It may be a sign Richy. I can only hope this is one dream that comes true.   

[RichardMEL]

I don't know about signs and I *do* know that you (Wattle) deserve it ahead of me.. and I'm sure there are many others of the 1300 odd waiting here that definitely deserve it ahead of me.

To be honest I'm trying my best to not get swept up in everyone saying they think it's my year and all that. Not that I don't apprieciate it or anything.. I totally do but what I mean is that if I start to believe it and nothing happens by the end of December what a massive let down that would be? So I'm just trying to take things day by day, session by session.. if the call comes it will be an awesome surprise... but if it doesn't I don't want to sit there thinking "but but... this is supposed to be my year.. where is it??" because that's not fair or right.

I'm sure when the universe intends it to happen it will happen.. until then I just plug on annoying you lot with crazy dreams and the like 

[lola]

 

[Jess21]

wow, and I thought the dream I had about a week ago was weird...thanks for making me feel that I'm not the only crazy one! 

[Wenchie58]

RM..
   I am a firm believer in dreams and the information they bring us.
Take it as a good sign and a little boost to keep you going through
the tough times.  Positive thoughts are the BEST medicine!
   On another note....are you trying to tell us that there wasn't
even one hottie nurse in this dream?  Come on man, we KNOW you!
Much love!   

[RichardMEL]

wow, and I thought the dream I had about a week ago was weird...thanks for making me feel that I'm not the only crazy one! 

Jess you realise you HAVE to spill your dream now. SHARE!!!!

[RichardMEL]

RM..
   I am a firm believer in dreams and the information they bring us.
Take it as a good sign and a little boost to keep you going through
the tough times.  Positive thoughts are the BEST medicine!
   On another note....are you trying to tell us that there wasn't
even one hottie nurse in this dream?  Come on man, we KNOW you!
Much love!   

Sadly no hotties.. they were all male doctors (my dreamscape is clearly sexist?!!) that I was aware of in the dream, though only a couple of them actually spoke so I suppose some of the people standing around could have been female.. but everyone was in scrubs with masks and haircaps and all that so you couldn't tell really what was what.. and I realise this seems unusual for me (I did say it was strange!! ) I wasn't focusing on girls!!! 

maybe the followup will be some hotties help me recover from my surgery... ha ha yeah I wish.

I guess though the whole transplant medical thing is something I don't associate with that other side of me (the flirty side that likes girls ) so it sort of makes sense I wouldn't dream that. I think it stems from the fact that I don't have any attractive young nurses (shh don't let them hear that!!!) in my unit (they are all absolutely lovely though!) and the best looking gal that comes there is the evil dietician!!  So yeah it's all a bit hard lol.

Anyway who needs dream hotties when I have my IHD gals who are all real??? 

[paddbear0000]

That is so weird that you had a transplant dream, because I had one last night too! I've been chatting with 2 people on Facebook who live in the Dayton area (like me) who have had kidney/pancreas transplants. Both of them had really bad experiences at OSU, where I am in the process of listing. One almost bled to death because of an incompetent nurse, the other one had a friend go through the same thing. That person ended up dying after her transplant, as did one of her other friends. Paris was also telling me what she knew about OSU, which was making me uneasy as well. I have been getting increasingly uncomfortable with my decision to list at OSU (also based on a few experiences I've had with them). Anyway, both of the people I've been talking to had their transplants done at the University of Cincinnati and have nothing but great things to say about their transplant program. Well, last night, I dreamed that OSU was killing all of their transplant patients, and I was next in line for a transplant (waiting on a ship for some reason)! I woke up this morning really freaked out. I called my neph first thing and asked him to refer me to UC!

[kellyt]

I, too, am a big, big, big believer in dreams giving you "hints" into life.  I'm not real good at putting them together at first.  Usually, the thing has to occur before I say "I had a dream...".

Has anyone here had a lucid dream?  I have and I loved it!  It was so amazingly real.  I knew I was dreaming and was even moving my eyes around to see if I would wake up.  It was more like watching a very real movie.  The dream was a cartoon - one that I'd never seen before.  Really strange little cartoon characters - not cartoon animals, but not humans either.  Anyway, I had gone to Barnes and Knowbles later that afternoon to purchase a book and while standing in the line to pay I looked down at a table of books and there was that strange little cartoon family!  To this day I'm pissed I didn't buy the book!  I've gone back to look for it, but can't remember what the characters look like now!

RichardMel, write down your dream in as much detail as you can!!!!

[paris]

Paddbear, do more research on OSU.  Don't rule out any possibility.   UNC does about 70 transplants a year and then I found out that CMC does over three times that many.  It depends on if it is a teaching university, what their focus is, their grants.  So many factors and every center is different.  Get listed at more than one center.  It isn't very hard.  With a kidney/pancreas the wait will be shorter than just a kidney  (usually).   I will see what information and statistics I can find for you.   What does your neph think?   Mine did research for me and really helped with listing options.  Keep asking lots of questions and the answers will come to you.

[paddbear0000]

I had done plenty of research when I first started this whole process. OSU had great stats, but after talking with 2 of their past patients, both of who happen to live in my town, and both had near death experiences, I am very concerned. I'm going to stay listed, but my one friend is going to help speed up the process for me by speaking with the coordinator and surgeons there. And my neph is definitely going to recommend UC, because he's with Christ Hospital, which is merged with UC's transplant center! UC is also a great hospital. They were going to be my second choice, but at the time, my neph was at OSU. And I plan on staying listed at OSU too. I'll just be praying I get called by UC first!!

Sorry to have veered off topic!

[G-Ma]

Hope your dream progresses for you RM.
I have had nothing but freaky dreams the last few weeks.  Who knows. 

[Jess21]

wow, and I thought the dream I had about a week ago was weird...thanks for making me feel that I'm not the only crazy one! 

Jess you realise you HAVE to spill your dream now. SHARE!!!!

*sigh* lol
Well, I dreamt that I got a call not from my transplant center, but from my local hospital, that they may have a kidney for me.  I went to the local hospital, and they decided to take out my old kidneys ( ) there.  Then I got sent home to wait for my transplant center to call me.    So there I was, just sitting at home, feeling lighter cause I had no kidneys waiting for a phone call.
Then I woke up.  Funny thing was I had pulled a muscle in my back the day before..right by my kidneys..so when I woke up, my back DID hurt. So confused!!!! I didn't move for about 5 mins!

[RichardMEL]

Jess: thanks for sharing *gentle hug for your sore back* 

Maybe all these odd dreams are to do with the seasons, or GWB leaving the oval office, or the moon and tides or something. How odd.

Sometimes I do experience something and have sort of deja vu feelings like I'd dreamed it before or something which can be eerie. I guess the mind is a powerful thing.

Still no call though - though my phone did go off at 4am this morning but it was a text about Obama!