talkers Dialysis Center Rant

[talker]

Well, not necessarily a rant but is a note about the differences in dialysis centers.

Read here (this forum) about 'heated chairs'.
My old center did have 'heated' chairs.
The new place looks like they have them , but they are not plugged into the wall outlets.

The new place has TV, but some TV sets are showing snowey pictures,and most all have
intermittent earphone connections.
Only the chairs I sit in will show 'closed captioning' , of course my hearing is not the best  in town.
Of course 'closed captioning' is due to my 'asking' for 'closed captioning'.
Will say that at the old center, one was able to get the W.W.W. and I did get on to do checking on my blog.
The new place does not have the W.W.W. connection. Do miss, not having it.

The personell at both centers are friendly and polite, with only rare flareups.

The new place does have a real problem in one rest room with patients tossing paper towels in the 'john', plugging them up solid.
Both centers are kept clean.

talker

[komomai]

Aloha Talker, the hospital that I do my dialysis in is a Japanese Hospital here in Okinawa. 

When I first started there my first response to my Doctor was where are the dialysis chairs?  Response was sorry but only beds here, now the beds we are talking about are made for the Japanese and with a very thin mattress and manual cranks to adjust the head, height, and legs.  They have a few beds that has a motor to adjust the head position.  So I complained about the hardness of the mattress and wanted only the beds with the electric remote and thicker mattress. 

The cool thing is that my Doctor approached me one day as I'm laying there, and mentioned that he had purchased a dialysis chair by Paramount so now they try to give me the chair everyday, I do 6 days at 3 hours.

Also like yours the staff and doctors are excellent, only the communication is difficult at times, but with my limited Japanese vocabulary we get by great.  I always greet them with a hello and when done thank them for their help and work.

[talker]

Aye.

Doctor San

Ask and thou shall receive, works quite often.


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