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« on: September 28, 2008, 07:15:20 PM »

Two shows on Showtime:
Tonight Dexter returns! He's a police forensic blood specialist/serial killer - love that show!
Also tonight Californication is beginning a new season. Famed novelist & NYC transplant "Hank" relocates to LA, played by David Duchovny.

Two HBO shows started a couple weeks ago:
I have quickly gotten hooked on True Blood on HBO - it's very intense and the characters are really unique!
Entourage, also on HBO, has been really good too.

Desperate Housewives returns tonight also!

What did I do before Tivo??

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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2008, 07:28:00 PM »

oooh Californication back... excellent :D that used to get me going at dialysis when the BP was a little low... though the old 70+ year olds around me may have had trouble if they happened to glance at my laptop!!!!! lol

I'm waiting for Pushing Daisies & Chuck to return. Heroes back last week was pretty good... and there's a few other shows too that it's good to have back. WOO HOO!
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27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 07:54:51 PM »

Little Britain USA premiered also. Very funny.
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06/85 Diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes
10/04 Radical Nephrectomy (Kidney Cancer or renal cell carcinoma)
02/08 Started Hemodialysis
04/08 Started Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
05/08 Started CCPD (my cycler: The little box of alarms)
07/09 AV Fistula and Permacath added, PD catheter removed. PD discontinued and Hemodialysis resumed
08/09 AV Fistula redone higher up on arm, first one did not work
07/11 Mass found on remaining kidney
08/11 Radical Nephrectomy, confirmed that mass was renal cell carcinoma
12/12 Whipple, mass on pancreas confirmed as renal cell carcinoma

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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 07:58:36 PM »

Little Britain USA premiered also. Very funny.
Please tell me that was the US premier of the UK Little Britain and not some lame ass attempted remake? (and how could they anyway)

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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 08:01:10 PM »

I don't know about Little Britan, but the US version of The Office is wonderful!  I've watched the UK version and it is definitely funny, but so hard for me to understand the accent.  I see that Little Britan is available on my Netflix.  I'll start watching it.  I love comedies!
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 08:01:50 PM »

It's a new series with the original cast. (Sunday nights at 10:30 p.m. on HBO)

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07/09 AV Fistula and Permacath added, PD catheter removed. PD discontinued and Hemodialysis resumed
08/09 AV Fistula redone higher up on arm, first one did not work
07/11 Mass found on remaining kidney
08/11 Radical Nephrectomy, confirmed that mass was renal cell carcinoma
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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2008, 05:37:00 PM »

November comes the sci fi event of the year!  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844653/

This was the best book series I ever read! It should make an amazing series.  I cannot wait!
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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2008, 06:36:30 PM »

Hey I watched the Little Britain US show.. pretty funny... now I understand.. I had no idea they did a series of those guys in the US.. too funny...

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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

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« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2008, 10:40:23 AM »


Last night I watched all the shows I had tivo'd: Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, True Blood, Dexter, Californication, Entourage and Desperate Housewives.  :bandance;
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
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« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2008, 12:08:47 PM »

wow thats alot I barely got through the football game...Boxman
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« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2008, 01:02:04 PM »


Oh! And I watched the Red Sox - Angels game too!  :)

Yeah, it was marathon tv watching - I should have spread it out but I will be gone Thurs. to Mon. in Vegas.

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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
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« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2008, 07:26:11 PM »

Californication is really full on at times but a fun show.. I really enjoy it...

And Little Brittan USA has gone further than the others in what they do IMHO.. Wonder if that's due to the HBO side of things. fun stuff.

Am enjoying new Family Guy (although I am totally over "The Bird is the Word!" now!) and even the Simpsons isn't too bad for Season 20.

Pushing Daisies was OK for a return episode..

Terminator looks really good with where it is going and it totally sucks that it looks like Fox will cancel it. Very unhappy if that happens!

Heroes rocks on and Chuck is it's usual fun popcorn stuff...

I'm enjoying the new seasons of stuff and it soooo keeps me diverted at dialysis!
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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

BE POSITIVE * BE INFORMED * BE PROACTIVE * BE IN CONTROL * LIVE LIFE!
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« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2008, 01:40:43 PM »

I watched the first episode of "Worst Week", a new sitcom on CBS.  I thought it was the worst show I have ever seen, I found all their attempts at humor to be juvenile and utterly ridiculous, not even slightly funny.  My 18-year-old son who normally enjoys that type of comedy, also found it to be very bad.  If you have any functioning brain cells - I believe you will not enjoy this show.
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« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2008, 02:48:17 AM »

I just saw Pushing Daisies for the first time. What a hoot!
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06/85 Diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes
10/04 Radical Nephrectomy (Kidney Cancer or renal cell carcinoma)
02/08 Started Hemodialysis
04/08 Started Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
05/08 Started CCPD (my cycler: The little box of alarms)
07/09 AV Fistula and Permacath added, PD catheter removed. PD discontinued and Hemodialysis resumed
08/09 AV Fistula redone higher up on arm, first one did not work
07/11 Mass found on remaining kidney
08/11 Radical Nephrectomy, confirmed that mass was renal cell carcinoma
12/12 Whipple, mass on pancreas confirmed as renal cell carcinoma

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« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2008, 07:05:51 AM »

I watched the first ten minutes of the ex-list last week and turned it off.  I found it too over the edge for my taste.
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« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2008, 09:31:46 PM »


I have quickly gotten hooked on True Blood on HBO - it's very intense and the characters are really unique!



I'm with you, Karol. I am hooked on the show and love the characters. The opening credits are bizarre and cool - very creative and spooky!
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« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2008, 11:56:50 PM »

I watched the first ten minutes of the ex-list last week and turned it off.  I found it too over the edge for my taste.

yeah you know I saw this and sat through the entire show and it didn't really thrill me. I might watch next week's just to give it a chance but I wasn't too inspired.. I mean the woman went through 2 or 3 men in the space of one episode basically because some fortune teller told her sehe'd meet her future husband or something... yeah, they tried to put humour into it and characters you could go places with... but something that bugs me about shows like this.. all the main casts are all HOTTIES! I mean come *on*... like the main chick could walk into a bar and instantly be mobbed... when will they have a show that show people actually STRUGGLING to get a date, having to deal with rejection after rejection (OK, I admit that would not make fun TV.. but it's REAL - for some of us anyway :( ) ....

in summary OK for a bit of eye candy during dialysis.. a bit of a laugh but if I wasn't already confined to a chair with nothing to do I wouldn't waste my time on that show.
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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

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« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2008, 09:30:07 AM »

Not sure what happened, it said that I posted a reply already, but it is not showing. Although, I am using a hotel computer that is using Internet Explorer 6 :banghead; :banghead; ??? :urcrazy;
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     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
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Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
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« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2008, 08:01:26 PM »

I been getting that tonight. It is probably a system glitch. Patience, An update to the site is due soon.

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Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

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« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2008, 08:28:52 PM »

I like Sons of Anarchy.
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« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2008, 08:48:24 PM »

I don't generally like sitcoms anyhow, so Worst Week didn't hit my radar at all.
The narrator's voice on Pushing Daisies started to wear on my nerves before I made it through the whole show.  I thought it was a cute premise, though.
I lasted through about 10 minutes of "Eleventh Hour".  Geez, Mulder and Sculley much?  Just because it worked once does not mean you should do it again!
I watched Sanctuary on scifi.com tonight.  Other than being disconcerted by hearing Amanda Tapping attempt an English accent, it wasn't much to watch.  They clearly take themselves much to seriously!
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« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2008, 09:32:26 PM »


I watched Sanctuary on scifi.com tonight.  Other than being disconcerted by hearing Amanda Tapping attempt an English accent, it wasn't much to watch.  They clearly take themselves much to seriously!

The movie Hellboy comes to mind and also X-Men when I saw that show. I agree, she shouldn't do the accent.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2008, 09:36:07 PM »

I like Sons of Anarchy.

Just saw that tonight in my hotel. Kinda didn't recognize Katy Segal without her saying Al and wearing pink shoes :rofl; Didn't expect to see Ron Pearlman in a TV show either.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2008, 11:12:51 AM »

OMG True Blood is awesome!!  I watched the previous episodes I hadn't seen on Saturday, it was a True Blood fest.  SOOO HOOKED.

Now I just need Big Love to come back and also Rescue Me.
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Wife to Rob who is currently doing Nx Stage Home Hemo Dialysis.

11/17/09 After 4 years on dialysis, Rob received a kidney from our George.  Kidney is working great!  YEAH!!!!
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