Bringing back Things to do While on Dialysis Thread

[KraigG]

Not as creative as you guys, I mostly watch TV while in the chair. At least it's DirecTV.

During the commercials, I whip out the iPhone, click on Foursquare, and check into all the doctors' offices nearby. I can rack up 100 points in a single evening!

[Riki]

During the commercials, I whip out the iPhone, click on Foursquare, and check into all the doctors' offices nearby. I can rack up 100 points in a single evening!

*LOL*  I never thought of doing that... I should do that to all the Tim Horton's that show up in the area... I"m the mayor at one of them, so I could really rack up the points

[Whamo]

I watch the Red Foxx and Bonanza reruns on TV Land, and I read books during the commercials.  If the patients near me aren't asleep I like to strike up conversations with them, but most of them are in the twilight zone.  I like to joke around with the nurses too. 

[KraigG]

*LOL*  I never thought of doing that... I should do that to all the Tim Horton's that show up in the area... I"m the mayor at one of them, so I could really rack up the points

OMG! During the 3 1/2 hours I'm there, 3 days a week, I get to check in every 15 minutes, and at 3 places each time. Any more, and you get timed out. I'm the mayor of every doctors office, physical therapy place, dentists office, etc, in a 3 mile radius. My point score is rarely below 500




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[MomoMcSleepy]

Seriously, though, can you do work on your laptop?  Could I write magazine articles or a book and make mad money while getting my blood cleaned out?  Are you allowed to use your fistula arm while dialyzing? Do centers often have WiFi?  I was searching and found a WiFi thread.  Can you watch movies, really?  I have tons of DVDs.

I want to be useful (or at least, entertained).

Do you feel like using your laptop, or feel too sick to do much?

I have no definite plans, perhaps I'll write a blog and earn fame and fortune, Lemons to lemonade!

I'm serious, what limitations are there, in general?  I'm still pre-d.

[Whamo]

I just started reading on my IPAD.  Sometimes I wish I was still on a catheter instead of a fistula so I could type. 

[chiawana]

My husband is the one on dialysis. He takes his 7-inch Samsung tablet as well as his iPhone with him when he goes. He checks e-mail, posts on Facebook, and watches videos and TV shows sometimes, too. Get this -- they have WIFI at the center, but no one knows what the password is! This is what they told him Friday. WTF? So he's using our Verizon 3G connection. He tries to sleep, but never has a lot of luck with that.

[kitkatz]

Got an iphone to play with now at dialysis. But when they hit me with the Benadryl I am toast.

[MomoMcSleepy]

Poop, Whamo, if you have a fistula you can't use that arm? 

iwannabean, too funny.

I probably will just goof  around on my touchpad, it kills time at work!

[kitkatz]

I was using the iphone the other day, put in a new password, got the meds at dialysis, and had one hell of a time remembering the password I used.  Sigh!~

[ChrisEtc]

Great thread!  I like to bring some bubbles and blow them at people as they walk by.  Or bring one of those sponge dart guns and fire them off at people.  I like to call the nurses station on the phone and ask for reservations and get upset when they say this isn't Roscoe's Waffle House I'm calling.  ThinkGeek.com has this annoying thing that you hide under someone's desk that makes all these annoying noises, like a young girl whispers and these rustling noises.  It will drive them crazy!  I'm thinking of bringing  a remote controlled helicopter to fly around the room.  Anything to pass the time!

[okarol]

Great thread!  I like to bring some bubbles and blow them at people as they walk by.  Or bring one of those sponge dart guns and fire them off at people.  I like to call the nurses station on the phone and ask for reservations and get upset when they say this isn't Roscoe's Waffle House I'm calling.  ThinkGeek.com has this annoying thing that you hide under someone's desk that makes all these annoying noises, like a young girl whispers and these rustling noises.  It will drive them crazy!  I'm thinking of bringing  a remote controlled helicopter to fly around the room.  Anything to pass the time!

  Roscoe's lol

[jbeany]

My husband is the one on dialysis. He takes his 7-inch Samsung tablet as well as his iPhone with him when he goes. He checks e-mail, posts on Facebook, and watches videos and TV shows sometimes, too. Get this -- they have WIFI at the center, but no one knows what the password is! This is what they told him Friday. WTF? So he's using our Verizon 3G connection. He tries to sleep, but never has a lot of luck with that.

They just tell everyone they offer it, but never get it connected.  I remember my center saying the same thing!

[okarol]

Here's a good blog post about things to do 
http://bigdandme.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/ten-1-things-to-do-on-dialysis/

[Rerun]

My Dentest just told me that I should get the sonacare electric tooth brush and sit at dialysis and brush my teeth. 

No, I need to post this in "Ignorant Things People say to you".

Let's see should I sit there and brush my teeth before or after my snack!! 

I've got to give the guy credit.... he is focused on his occupation! 

    No!  The answer is No I'm not doing that.   

[malaka]

My center has a secret WIFI for use by employees and not by patients.  So the computer is useless.  And no connection for my Kindle, either.  But I do download books at home and read them on the Kindle (only needs one hand to operate) at the center during treatment.  Learned right away to store in the device, not in the "cloud" wherever that is as I can't reach the cloud while at the center.

My phone works for email, but typing one handed is a pain in the ..... hand.  So I do read what I get, rarely reply.  Too bad I couldn't respond that official notice from Nigeria that I'd won the lottery there....

Lots of patients watch TV, but I don't have the patience for morning basic cable TV as even the local news gets too repetitive.   And we have to ask to have the channel changed for us since we're not trusted to control the TV set, I guess.  Thankfully, the patients must listen through earphones so I don't have to listen to what they're watching. 

[Riki]

I download shows and watch them on my netbook.  Right now, I'm getting through Dark Shadows, a soap opera from the late 1960s-early 1970s.. I also have the 3rd season of Downton Abbey and a good selection of movies

[Rerun]

I download shows and watch them on my netbook.  Right now, I'm getting through Dark Shadows, a soap opera from the late 1960s-early 1970s.. I also have the 3rd season of Downton Abbey and a good selection of movies

I would watch that and I was only 6 and my older sisters would have it on.  I would sleep with the covers wrapped around my neck.  Wow they should have a movie where the vampires break into a dialysis center and kill the staff and have dinner.  Ewwwwuuuu

[tiredandthirsty]

my centre offers wifi.  and i take my work laptop and do some work while listening to some nice music in the background on youtube.  i am placed in an isolation room so i don't get to speak to anyone or any nurses or techs.  i am by myself 90% of the time except when they come in once in a while to take down the bp and stuff.  i can't work everyday because it depends on how i feel.  so sometimes i watch basic cable tv they offer.  if their wifi is not working, i have hotspot from my mobile phone that i use to get online.  so i basically try to waste time doing work. 

[Riki]

I download shows and watch them on my netbook.  Right now, I'm getting through Dark Shadows, a soap opera from the late 1960s-early 1970s.. I also have the 3rd season of Downton Abbey and a good selection of movies

I would watch that and I was only 6 and my older sisters would have it on.  I would sleep with the covers wrapped around my neck.  Wow they should have a movie where the vampires break into a dialysis center and kill the staff and have dinner.  Ewwwwuuuu

hehe.. When I was a kid in the hospital, there was one labworker that used to come around in the morning to take blood.. we called her the vampire lady.. *L*