My Best Dialysis Session

[Bajanne]

I am writing this from my home island country of Barbados.  I had to come here to attend the funeral of an aunt.
My dialysis session is usually the second session of Mon-Wed-Fri.  Because I had to take a plane, I had to do dialysis Friday morning.  I reached there at 7.00 a.m
Here is what was great; first of all, they put me on the machine which is in the coldest section of the room.  My needles went in with no fuss.  I asked for and got a light sheet to cover with.  I didn't read, watch tv or chat with anyone.  I just had the most delicious sleep ever.  I woke for a little while, thought for a few minutes and was off to sleep again.  When I woke and asked how much time I had left - it was only 18 minutes.  My bleeding stopped in record time - even the arterial!!  No spurting, nothing.
I didn't bounce out of there, but I sure didn't feel like crap as I left.
I wonder if they would allow me to rent that particular machine so as I can make sure that is where they put me each time .........

[kitkatz]

Oh wow!  That was nice for you!   
I do not think of dialysis time as being particularly nice, but it is nice to have a good run on a machine and be able to relax while you are there. I know I like a quiet run. The guy beside me on Friday was belching and throwing up for an hour and a half. Yuck!  He finally left early.  He was complaining it was cold in the building. I was burning up sweating over in my chair.  I am always complaining about the cold in the building, but Friday it was WARM inside.  He must have been sick or something.
I prefer being warm to cold so I did not complain about the warmth.

Katherine

[kevno]

Dialysis what dialysis. I out of it for most of the time on the machine because of the pethidine. On dialysis now seems like five minutes if that.

Kevno

[kitkatz]

Oh I wish. Some nights take foreeeeever!

[Rerun]

I don't see how anyone can sleep when you get BP taken every 30 minutes!  Do they come and wake you for a BP reading?

[Bajanne]

They never wake me for a reading.  The machine does it automatically and the BP is recorded.  They wouldn't want to wake me.  I am sure they like when I am sleeping - then I don't ask for anything, don't complain about the heat (that is my problem), don't ask them 40 times how much more time I have.
BTW, I am back home, so I will not miss my session tomorrow for them to tell me that the machine is the most important thing in my life now.

[kitkatz]

The machine is the most important thing in your life now??   What idiot told you that one!
You should tell them that love and spirit are important right now.  They can take that dialysis machine and shove.  But go to every treatment anyway, it will irritate the Hell out of them.

Katherine

[kevno]

I do not know if they take my BP or not, THAT PETHIDINE IS STRONG. Hopfully D-day this week. Find out about when having the op