My Dialysis Center is in Hackensack, NJ

[meadowlandsnj]

I go to Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ.  I am so lucky to be in a great center--I've heard so many bad stories about different centers.  It's clean, the staff is great, I see a doctor every time I'm on dialysis.  I have dialysis in Johnson Hall right next to the main hospital.  basically I do what I want on dialysis--watch TV, talk on the cell phone, read, eat or drink.  The social worker and dietician are always available to us.
Sure I hate dialysis but at least my unit is bearable and I don't dread going there.  I'm involved in my own health care--I can set for how much fluid I want to remove and they want to teach me how to do the dialysis machine.

[Rerun]

Do you get the same chair/machine every time?  That is what I'm fighting for.  They say they can't give me the same chair every time.  The alternative is two other chairs where it is cold and the lighting is poor and the TV's are hanging from the celing and I can't see them.  So, I like this one spot and they won't give it to me.

[meadowlandsnj]

Hi

No, I don't get the same chair every time.  There are about 15 chairs on my floor plus there are two other dialysis rooms upstairs with the same amount.  We also have those little individual TV sets with earphones if you want them.