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« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2009, 04:51:48 AM » |
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Did you smile for the camera? Or was it more of an action shot?
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Come to think of it, nothing is funny anymore.
Nothing that I post here is intended for fact but rather for exploration into my personal thought processes. Any slight, use of words with multiple connotations or other percieved insults are totally unintended. I reserve my insults for private.
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Stoday
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« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2009, 12:39:30 PM » |
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Smile for the camers? They do everything to wipe the smile off your face. First there's the Flush. Flush, note, not drain. It's a real plumbing job. If you've ever had a boiler replaced, that's what the plumber does to your pipes. In the hospital, since you're not a contortionist, you can't see what's going on. You can feel it though. You know those big red double deck busses they have in London? It feels like they are stuffing one of those up. I can assure you, you don't smile when one of those is being rammed up your ass. You cough. Or worse.  |
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Diagnosed stage 3 CKD May 2003
AV fistula placed June 2009
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« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2009, 03:06:04 PM » |
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In the hospital, since you're not a contortionist, you can't see what's going on. You can feel it though. You know those big red double deck busses they have in London? It feels like they are stuffing one of those up. I can assure you, you don't smile when one of those is being rammed up your ass. You cough. Or worse.
No sedatives? Here in the States they usually give some sort of sedative so you don't feel a thing. And sometimes it even knocks you out, so you wake up in the recovery lounge not remembering the procedure at all.  |
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Uninterrupted in-center (self-care) hemodialysis since 1982 -- 34 YEARS on March 3, 2016 !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No transplant. Not yet, anyway. Only decided to be listed on 11/9/06. Inactive at the moment.  I make films. Just the facts: 70.0 kgs. (about 154 lbs.) Treatment: Tue-Thur-Sat 5.5 hours, 2x/wk, 6 hours, 1x/wk Dialysate flow (Qd)=600; Blood pump speed(Qb)=315 Fresenius Optiflux-180 filter--without reuse Fresenius 2008T dialysis machine My KDOQI Nutrition (+/ -): 2,450 Calories, 84 grams Protein/day. "Living a life, not an apology." |
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« Reply #28 on: September 25, 2009, 07:38:05 PM » |
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Oh, Stoday! Not fun! We definitely get twilight stuff. Don't remember a thing!
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Wife to Carl, who has PKD. Mother to Meagan, who has PKD. Partner for NxStage HD August 2008 - February 2011. Carl transplanted with cadaveric kidney, February 3, 2011.  |
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Stoday
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« Reply #29 on: September 25, 2009, 09:11:16 PM » |
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Yeah I was given sedative, but I think it didn't work very well.
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Diagnosed stage 3 CKD May 2003
AV fistula placed June 2009
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« Reply #30 on: September 25, 2009, 11:21:44 PM » |
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Evidently not Stoday!!!! Come to the states next time you have to have one of those ugly tests!!!
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One day at a time, thats all I can do.
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Stacy Without An E
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« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2009, 04:35:19 PM » |
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Dialysis is not as bad as being turned down for a date because you're on Dialysis.
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Stacy Without An E
1st Kidney Transplant: May 1983
2nd Kidney Transplant: January 1996
3rd Kidney Transplant: Any day now.
The Adventures of Stacy Without An E
stacywithoutane.blogspot.com
Dialysis. Two needles. One machine. No compassion.
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« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2009, 05:00:28 AM » |
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Choking. Drowning. Getting a tatoo. Getting dumped. The pain of Childbirth? Not that I would know about this one! Some of the replies on this post made me laugh this morning...that's a very good thing  |
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- Lori
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Trying to qualify for a living donor transplant
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13
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« Reply #33 on: December 01, 2009, 05:33:19 AM » |
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I don't yet know how bad dialysis will be but I'm sure it won't be as bad as haveing a TV camera stuffed up my jacksie. 
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« Reply #34 on: December 01, 2009, 10:50:51 AM » |
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Well, as I always say it beats the alternative. |
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If I could type properly, I'd be dangerous!
You may be only one person in the universe but you may mean the the universe to someone else.
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« Reply #35 on: December 01, 2009, 12:50:53 PM » |
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What is that "twilight stuff"? I like it. Can you buy it at Kroger or Safeway?
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Come to think of it, nothing is funny anymore.
Nothing that I post here is intended for fact but rather for exploration into my personal thought processes. Any slight, use of words with multiple connotations or other percieved insults are totally unintended. I reserve my insults for private.
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« Reply #36 on: December 01, 2009, 01:08:04 PM » |
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Dan, if you could we would be standing in line..................................
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One day at a time, thats all I can do.
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« Reply #37 on: December 01, 2009, 01:08:27 PM » |
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dialysis is not as bad as setting your hair on fire.
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"Asbestos Gelos" (As-bes-tos yay-lohs) Greek. Literally, "fireproof laughter". A term used by Homer for invincible laughter in the face of death and mortality.  |
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« Reply #38 on: December 02, 2009, 01:37:57 AM » |
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Forplay with a crocodile.
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« Reply #39 on: December 02, 2009, 06:05:20 AM » |
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Being chsed by a grizzly bear!
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In center hemo dialysis since Feb 14, 2007.
If I could type properly, I'd be dangerous!
You may be only one person in the universe but you may mean the the universe to someone else.
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dwcrawford
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« Reply #40 on: December 02, 2009, 06:51:20 AM » |
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having a monkey eat your face off.
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Come to think of it, nothing is funny anymore.
Nothing that I post here is intended for fact but rather for exploration into my personal thought processes. Any slight, use of words with multiple connotations or other percieved insults are totally unintended. I reserve my insults for private.
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« Reply #41 on: December 02, 2009, 07:18:50 AM » |
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loosing your child.....
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Please note: I am no expert. Advise given is not medical advise but from my own experience or research. Or just a feeling...
South Africa
PKD
Jan 2010 Nephrectomy (left kidney)
Jan 2010 Fistula
Started April 2010 Hemo Dialysis(hate every second of it)
Nov 2012 Placed on disalibity (loving it)
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Ken Shelmerdine
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« Reply #42 on: December 08, 2009, 03:20:56 AM » |
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loosing your child.....
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« Reply #43 on: December 12, 2009, 01:44:44 AM » |
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My fam and I were watching some tv show, and I said being a parent must really be the hardest thing ever, then my 8yr old cousin said. No loosing a child. out of the mouths of babes
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-Christmas '03 get news of esrd
-June '08 start hemo
-Thanksgiving '08 pd surg
-Feb '09 Stop hemo and manual exchanges
... start cycler
Setp 3 '09 On UNOS list (27th b day)
Dec 09 peritonitis
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« Reply #44 on: December 12, 2009, 02:35:18 AM » |
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Being served as a snack by the Visitors.
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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
• Don't Knock on Death's door; Ring the bell and run away. Death hates that.
• I'm not a complete Idiot -- some parts are missing.
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« Reply #45 on: December 12, 2009, 05:35:38 AM » |
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Trying to talk to an ER triage nurse.... those women scare the hell out of me, they are by far the nastiest things ever put on this earth
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2003 January - acute renal failure
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« Reply #46 on: December 12, 2009, 11:32:20 AM » |
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Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.
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In center hemo dialysis since Feb 14, 2007.
If I could type properly, I'd be dangerous!
You may be only one person in the universe but you may mean the the universe to someone else.
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« Reply #47 on: December 14, 2009, 01:35:45 AM » |
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Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.
ew, my nephew and brother in law are both rural fire brigade (one volunteer and one paid+volunteer) and they deal with all of the bad crashes outside sydney metro area. They wont really discuss it, but they said they know the smell the moment they arrive on scene. |
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2003 January - acute renal failure
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2009 October - PD failing, First fistula put in.
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« Reply #48 on: December 14, 2009, 09:00:37 AM » |
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Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.
ew, my nephew and brother in law are both rural fire brigade (one volunteer and one paid+volunteer) and they deal with all of the bad crashes outside sydney metro area. They wont really discuss it, but they said they know the smell the moment they arrive on scene.
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In center hemo dialysis since Feb 14, 2007.
If I could type properly, I'd be dangerous!
You may be only one person in the universe but you may mean the the universe to someone else.
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« Reply #49 on: February 07, 2010, 11:44:16 AM » |
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seeing your newborn daugher in the neonatal unit with IV's in her shaven little head ---
not being able to hold her until she was 3 months old
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