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« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2006, 01:46:09 PM »

"Make it work" from Project Runway
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Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

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

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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« Reply #26 on: November 01, 2006, 02:18:59 AM »

Don't cook bacon naked.  ;)

Another helpful kitchen hint from my hubby, who learned the hard way - Don't blow open the Kool-Aid envelope.
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Those are just too funny yet oh so true!! 
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« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2006, 05:08:28 AM »

Don't cook bacon naked.  ;)


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« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2008, 03:22:20 PM »


Don't sweat the small stuff.
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« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2008, 03:23:04 PM »

Karol told me about IHD :cuddle;
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« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2008, 03:40:32 PM »

My favorite quote. Don't worry about tomorrow. God is already there.
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« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2008, 11:09:04 PM »

This too shall pass...
Be kind, everyone is fighting a battle...
Listen to the right voices, so you can make the right choices...
You must look at what's left, not at what's lost...
Stability in the storm comes not from seeking a new message, but from understanding an old one.
The most reliable anchor points are not recent discoveries, but are time-tested truths that have held their ground against the winds of change.Truths like:
My life is not futile.
My failures are not fatal.
You can never get to the right place on the wrong road.

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« Reply #32 on: January 18, 2008, 09:45:43 AM »

My favorite quote. Don't worry about tomorrow. God is already there.

And so are the Australians!
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« Reply #33 on: January 18, 2008, 12:17:53 PM »

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Thanks to everyone on IHD for providing music to dance by!
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« Reply #34 on: January 24, 2008, 07:28:20 PM »

Don't ever take exlax and a sleeping pill on the same night!   :clap;


 :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
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Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2008, 07:31:50 PM »

Don't cook bacon naked.  ;)

Another helpful kitchen hint from my hubby, who learned the hard way - Don't blow open the Kool-Aid envelope.
     :lol;
:clap;

Those are just too funny yet oh so true!! 

I found those out the hard way as well!  When I was a teenager!  I wasn't naked but I had a low cut, thin night gown on with no robe!  This was all in the same day too!   :rofl; :rofl;
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
                  Hickman
Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2008, 09:27:29 PM »



Another helpful kitchen hint from my hubby, who learned the hard way - Don't blow open the Kool-Aid envelope.



I just reread this post.  The look on hubby's face when he blew into the envelope of Kool Aid.  Priceless!   :rofl; :rofl;
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Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

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

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2008, 10:59:44 PM »

From a friends dad when I was abt 19.  "Don't leave a pot full of screamin' hot oil and french fries on the stove cooking and go outside to smoke a cigarette & talk on the phone."  This was after I asked what had happened to the cabinets in the kitchen.  They were all burnt!  He got the fire out before it took over the entire kitchen but the front of the cabinets were all charred.  Lucky for him they had fire extinguisher nearby!

"Remember to blow the pilot light on the furnace out and shut off the gas before re-tiling the kitchen floor!"  When I was 6, our neighbors hired people from their church who didn't know what they were doing and weren't licensed or bonded!  When the glue fumes ignited it sounded like an explosion.  The fire caught our house on fire too but the fire dept. got ours out with minimal damage.  The neighbors house burned to the ground. 
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
                  Hickman
Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2008, 10:22:07 PM »

One saying that helped me a lot was one I got directly from a older patient when I first started dialysis

He said to me "If you can beat it here *pointing to his head* then the rest is easy"

It was not especially eloquent but I have found it to be very true
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  I miss you like hell.  ~Edna St Vincent Millay
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« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2008, 01:44:36 AM »

One saying that helped me a lot was one I got directly from a older patient when I first started dialysis

He said to me "If you can beat it here *pointing to his head* then the rest is easy"

It was not especially eloquent but I have found it to be very true
AMEN!!  :thumbup;
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« Reply #40 on: February 02, 2008, 02:34:53 PM »

I'm gonna live forever. Well,it's working so far!
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« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2008, 02:37:33 PM »

One saying that helped me a lot was one I got directly from a older patient when I first started dialysis

He said to me "If you can beat it here *pointing to his head* then the rest is easy"

It was not especially eloquent but I have found it to be very true

 :bow;
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WOO HOO NEW KIDNEY PEEING !!!(Transplant 23/10/07)

« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2008, 12:09:10 PM »

I'm gonna live forever. Well,it's working so far!

 :rofl; as soon as I saw your post I started singing Fame, I'm gonna live forever I'm gonna learn how to fly High !  :rofl;
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« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2008, 12:25:54 PM »

Tamara---me too!!  We could go on the road touring bringing back Fame! :rofl;
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« Reply #44 on: February 04, 2008, 01:42:33 AM »

Suicidal Tendencies (my fav band) have a song called "No F*** Problem" which contains the line "You aint alive, if you aint living" - sounds fair to me! But more than that, their song "The Feeling's Back" is one that I find really positive. I posted the lyrics in that thread for song lyrics, whatever it was called.... it must be in this Off Topic section somewhere.
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« Reply #45 on: February 04, 2008, 05:06:10 PM »

Tamara---me too!!  We could go on the road touring bringing back Fame! :rofl;

You need to get a few more patients and only perform when on Dialysis , You could be known as
Americans Idle !
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« Reply #46 on: February 05, 2008, 02:20:10 AM »

lol, fantastic pun.
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« Reply #47 on: April 16, 2008, 01:51:49 PM »

sh*t happens

it will pass

You are a cool teacher.

All my daughter talks about is your class.

 :puke;  a tech " Go ahead and vomit, puke that poison up."
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« Reply #48 on: April 16, 2008, 01:53:40 PM »

 :bump;    old topic bumped up     forgot to use it     don't know where to place it
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Might as well smile

« Reply #49 on: April 16, 2008, 05:17:11 PM »

Be here now. 
Listen more than you talk.
Be grateful for small mercies.
There but for the grace of God go I.
Get comfortable with your own company and you'll never be alone.
The heart sometimes knows what the rational mind will never understand.
Earth is the only planet with chocolate.

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Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
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Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
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