What kind of home do you live in and what kind of dialysis do you do?

[Lillupie]

Well,
 Im getting married in December and moving to Ft. Campbell, Ky. THe waitlist to get family housing on base is 6-8 months. And once my soldier is married he has 30 days to get out of the barricks. So my fiance is looking for a place to live. A house is too expensive, so we are getting an apartment. The one that is by his base that he wants is a two bedroom town home that is 970 sqft.
 Since we cannot afford to rent a house, we need to go to an apartment. This apartment I have actually only seen online through a tour. THye have floorplans too. Each bedroom actually has a walk-in closet. Outside the apartment there is actually a storage closet/unit, well for his gear.

this is the apartment that we are going to be living in. THe two bedroom one.
http://gwaltneyproperties.com/commercial/default.aspx

So, I was wondering to those on dilaysis, is your housing a reason why you chose hemo? and those on PD, where do you put your supplies??

I am a little concerned. Because when my mom and I moved earlier this year, i made a point that we not get a house unless it has a basement, an attached garage, or a 4th bedroom (i room for each of us, and the 4th room for dialysis supplies), but with two rooms (even though they have walk-in closets). I dont know where my supplies are going to go. With my own full size bed, I used to have to empty out 12 boxes to go on the cycler, in the under the bed containers. At this time I was getting delivery every two weeks. I dont know how often a dialysis center there will allow for delivery....
 I am partially lucky that I only have 2 5L bags that go on the cycler, but will need room for the middays, and box for cassettes, and then drainlines.

thanks,
Lisa

[Sax-O-Trix]

Congratulations on your pending marriage and move to Kentucky!  I haven't much advice on where to store your pd supplies other than perhaps suggesting you have someone build some sort of "captain's bed" or loft so you can put all of your boxes of solution under the bed (?) to save on space.  Good luck with your move!

[Cordelia]

Congrats!

Hope everything goes well for your weddingand your move, I just moved in the spring, and I'm still trying to get settled! LOL     

[boswife]

oh Lillupie, im so happy for you.  I LOVE your new home and it's going to be so good for you.  And thank and hug that soldier of yours for me.  They deserve so much.  And....... i really dont have suggestions for you on supplies but i know imunch has done both and hopfully will see this and give ya some help in that dept   Wishig you the best in your new life.  Im excited 

[tbarrett2533]

I said my next move.... I am ONLY going to move someplace where I can have my OWN in house treatment room!!!!!!!!

[dyann]

All I can tell you is when I went on home dialysis they came out to look at the house to see where I would be putting my supplies and how they would be stored,  I have to big entry closets and I use one of them and part of the masterbedroom walkin, but truth be told I get so much that I also have some in my main living room because I have no other place to put them.  after the first visit they have never check again,

[Adam_W]

I live in a small, 2nd floor apartment, and I do NxStage (you should have seen us getting that machine up the stairs when I moved in  ) It doesn't look very attractive, but I stack my supplies up against one wall right in the living room, which is primarily my dialysis room. I do run into problems with space, but for me it beats the alternative (in-centre).

[Desert Dancer]

We live in a Craftsman bungalow built in 1930. It has two bedrooms - the second one was an addition - that are connected to each other. I store all my supplies just the other side of the wall from the master bedroom; it's almost like having the supplies right there in the same room.

There's only one tiny closet in the whole place (ya gotta love old houses!) and that is where the RO system is installed. We call it 'The RO Room'.

We'll be house hunting within the next six months and are going to look for something a little bigger. Our current house is about 825 s.f. and we're looking in the 1200 - 1700 s.f. range. It feels funny to complain about not having enough room when we spent 6.5 years living in 300 square feet!

[daveosaurus]

I do in center hemo. Would rather do home pd. I have a 2 bedroom apartment with all the usual fittings, walls floors, roaches that I constantly spray for. The only good thing is it's $440 / month. At least they don't charge me a pet fee for the roaches!

[Riki]

I have to wonder how much supplies you get, as opposed to what you actually use.

When I was on PD, my brother and I lived in a small, 2 bedroom basement apartment.  We were able to fit all of my supplies for the month in a hall closet, with the exception of maybe 3 or 4 boxes of dineal, the box of cycler sets (cuz it's huge) and a couple boxes of caps.  Except for the boxes of caps (they were under my bed cuz I used them) the few extra boxes were lined up against a wall in my bedroom.

The first order you get, there's a crapload of stuff, because they give you everything.  After that, we'd call and order only what we needed for the month.  My mom did that.  She was amazing.  She was able to keep track of it.  I've no idea how she did it