Business travel on PD

[Atooraya]

So I just started my first businees trip on PD. Took the Baxter unit aboard the plane. It easily fit into the overhead compartment. Carrying it on my shoulder was a drag. It got heavier as time went on. LOL. Rented a cart threw it on. Easier to push around. Claimed my checked luggage a bunch of manual bags in there. Survived 36,000 ft altitutue just fine. Got to the hotel, the cycler bags were at the front desk waiting for me. That worked good, but cost me $45 to ship to hotel in Florida.
I was concerned that business travel on PD would be more complicated. So far, so good.
My return flight is on Tue, I'm hoping that will go smooth too.
Next month i'm off to Boston and Minneaplois and after that to Japan. Let's see if I survive the Japan trip. Will check-in with you all then.
Gotta go get hooked up to the cycler.

[lmunchkin]

Whay to go "Atooraya".  The cycler is much harder to travel with but is very doeable!  Can u do the CAPD when traveling?  That way you wouldnt have to take the cycler as much!  But then maybe getting a way to do the exchanges through out the day, may be a little difficult, do to sterilization procedures!  Anyrate, glad to hear that you havent had any problems!   GOOD FOR YOU!

lmunchkin     

[boswife]

   thats so neat to hear .. Hoping all goes well and the traveling bit is smooth as silk from hear on out.. GReat news!

[jeannea]

You're very brave. I don't think I can handle airplane travel with my cycler. I'm impressed and happy it went well for you!

[Atooraya]

I do One CAPD at the end of the work day. However, it's difficult to get away multiple times during the day. Hence, I'm locked into the cycler when traveling on business.
So far so good.

[Lillupie]

if you are in the US and traveling in the US Baxter will deliver your supplies where you are going. Overseas is tricky. Im in Germany at the moment and trying to do manuals and I usually am on the cycler at night when I am at home.

Lisa

[Atooraya]

Lillupie, So when you go overseas do you take sufficinet manual bags to cover you for the length of the trip?

[lmunchkin]

Hey Lillupie, what part of Germany you in?  I was born in Germany cause may father was in Air Force. There is a base there called Lanstuhl, that is where I was born!

Atooraya, I admire you for doing what you are doing!  It is hard enough getting around with this disease, and you are showing it can be done!     

lmunchkin     

[Jie]

Baxter ships solutions to 48 states free. I found it is very easy to carry the cycler. Just get a foldable luggage cart for it.

[Lillupie]

im in Bavaria, at the Army base of Grafenwhor or Graf. How long were you in Germany for? Thats cool you were born here.
yeah and a few years ago I traveled to Sicily with manuals.

Lisa

Hey Lillupie, what part of Germany you in?  I was born in Germany cause may father was in Air Force. There is a base there called Lanstuhl, that is where I was born!

Atooraya, I admire you for doing what you are doing!  It is hard enough getting around with this disease, and you are showing it can be done!     

lmunchkin     

[lmunchkin]

Traveling to Sicily with manuals? How kool is that?  Girl, Im so proud of you!

Unfortunately, I lived in Germany a short time. Dad was in Air Force and was transfered alot between overseas & the states. He met a married my mother while stationed in Pennsylvania. Had my oldest bro. born in PA.  Then was transf. to Antiqua to have my oldest sista. Then shipped to Porta Rica where another bro was born. 

Shipped back to the US state of Tennessee where another bro was born. Then transfered to State of MIssissippi where another bro was born. Then they were shipped overseas to Germany where I was born.  Transfered to England where baby bro was born.  Then sent back to US state of Texas, where they resided on 2 different bases, first Sambonita and later Waco where after 6 years they had their eigth and final child (girl).  To this day we tease her about being an accident!  I thank God for haveing a large family.

Mom & Dad have passed along with bro just above me and bro just below me.  Love & miss them terribly! 

Yea, hubby really liked PD too.  I liked the manuals but when home we did the cycler! 

I would really like to visit my birthplace someday.  I don't even have a picture!!  You have fun and your "finaince" sounds like a wonderful man! Keep him, and travel, travel, & travel!

lmunchkin       

[Atooraya]

OK, just completed another business trip. This time to Minneapolis and then Wisconsin. Everything worked well. My wife had arranged for the fluid to show up at the hotel. It was waiting for me when I checked in. Carrying the cycler on one shoulder and getting through airports is queit a task. It seems the darn thing gets heavier the further I walk. I weighed it its about 28LBS. Feels like a 100. I need to find a carrying case that has wheels on it.
Here is the kicker, I put on 3.5 pounds while on travel. It's really difficult for me to eat healthy on the road. I got more trips coming up so I gotta come up with another strategy. This one ain't working. I can't afford to put on 3 lbs every trip. Anyway, I'll check in with you all next time. Off to Boston next.

[lmunchkin]

Wow, you really are doing some traveling!  Is this for your job?  That really is hard to juggle the back -n-forth of PD cycler!  I remember very well how heavy the machine, and the bags were heavy too.  It was hard enough to do at home, I can just imagine taking trips.  You will get a routine down that will best work for you!  Im confident you will figure out something on wheels that you can pull, instead of carry!

You should be very proud that you are giving the best effort you got!

lmunchkin     

[Atooraya]

This week in Boston. Tomorrow in Minneapolis. Getting to be an old hand at PD on the road, In hotel rooms.

[Atooraya]

Has anyone ever taken their cycled to Japan? The voltage there is 110. Iwonder if a voltage transformer is required there?

[lmunchkin]

I don't know what PD cyclers today use, but the one we used when husband did PD, was a 110 outlet.  Now if yours requires a 220, they have adabters for those.  But I believe they still use 110, ask HOD about his!  If he uses a 110 plug!  I hope things are getting better for our allies in Japan.  They have really been hit so hard!

God Bless,     

lmunchkin   

P.S. HOD is Houseofdialysis

[komomai]

Aloha, my Baxter cycler here in Okinawa, Japan uses 100 volts.  Here in Japan they don't use a ground on their plugs so I use a  ground adapter plug that the 3 prong power plug goes into a 2 prong plug that goes in the wall.

Could you contact Baxter in Japan to let you use one instead of dragging it half way around the world?  I'm renting my cycler on a monthly basis.

Where in Japan are you headed to?  Have a safe trip.

Aloha Komomai

[Atooraya]

komomai and lmunchkin, Thank you for the responses.

I contacted Baxter here in the states and they said that they don't do any business in Japan and that I'd have to carry my own supplies and take the cycler with me!!!!!

[komomai]

Wow!  That's news to me.  I was planning on taking a trip back home to Hawaii for about a month.  My Baxter rep told my Japanese wife that I could use the cycler and get my supplies in Hawaii.  My Doctor in Japan would write a letter with all my prescriptions and I would be able to travel.

To carry your cycler and all your supplies that would be a lot especially if your staying for a week or two.

I can ask my wife to speak to my Baxter rep and try to get a point of contact in mainland Japan that speaks English.

Good luck with your travels.
Aloha, Komomai 

[Atooraya]

Hi Kokomai

I'm already in Yokohama.
However, the information you offered to give me will come in handy for future Japan trips.

Thank you,
Fred

[Atooraya]

By the way, Kokomai. To my releife , I plugged the machine into the wall and it worked just fine without a voltage transformer in Yokohama.
It would be bad news to be stuck on the island of Japan and the cycler won't cycle.