My husband's pd nurse is incompetent!!!

[Kathleen]

My husband calls her "the dummy". I swear, if I need any answers I sure don't ask her. All she tells me when I ask a question is:  "I'll look it up" WTF? I can do that!!! These last few weeks have really open my eyes to the  incompetence of the medical profession. I don't care if she is new to pd, no excuse. If she was my employee I would fire her ass. Then she acts like its a dumb question, well I guess not, if you have too look it up!! I'm about up to here with her "I'll look it up" crap-o-la. I don't want crap-o-la I want answers dammit!!

 All I want to know right now is: Why is my husband still feeling sick on pd? All I get right now is, how are you feeling.(btw I had a seizure at their office last Month, I never had one before). Don't ask about me, I want to know whats going on with my husband dammit!!!

OK, I'm off my soap box, for now.

[Rerun]

Sorry you had to find out so soon...........  Hope things go better.  Best to look it up your self or ask here.  Your husband should start feeling better.  His blood work should show if things are our of whack.  It is not like he will feel like a million bucks, but at least fifty grand!

[Kathleen]

Sorry you had to find out so soon...........  Hope things go better.  Best to look it up your self or ask here.  Your husband should start feeling better.  His blood work should show if things are our of whack.  It is not like he will feel like a million bucks, but at least fifty grand!

Rerun,

You are so right. What was I thinking?

[Sara]

Is it possible to get a new PD nurse?  That one sounds SO annoying and frustrating.   

[kitkatz]

*Thwack! Upside your nurse's head with large medical book!*
Sounds like you had better get informed and one step of head of the medical profession.
I hate it whent hey send the idiots to me. Ie vent old anurse once:" Look send the professionals to me, not these damned amatuers!"   He got out of the room real fast after that!  I need a Tshirt with that on it!   Learn all you can about his treatment.  The blood work results will tell if PD is working or not. Sometimes, maybe following the hemo diet for a few weeks until the kinks are worked out in PD helps the body adjust better. (Not that I know anything about PD.)

[angieskidney]

How long have he been on PD now?

Does he retain any fluid?

How are his drains?

Does he feel any pain or just the usual ill feeling? That will get a little better with time depending on blood work results.

I was on PD for 4 years since 2001 and was on PD back in 1990.

[Kathleen]

My husband been on pd since September. No, he doesn't retain any fluids. His drains looks clear and he has no pain. Today we are doing the PET and clearance test. And labs. His nurse told me yesterday that, they are losing a staff member so "her" time is very limited. She is the nurse for hemo also. I could have smacked her when she told me that. At this point I think, we know more than her. She only been doing pd as long as my husband been on pd. Which is a very short time.

My husband at the Nep. doing a exchange for the PET test. I'm so mad at his nurse, maybe thats the reason my husband said I could just stay home. I swear, my temper will get the best of me one day.