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« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2010, 08:24:21 AM »
 :yahoo; Congrats  :yahoo;
I can say I love this site. Thank you epoman for starting it. This place is awesome. Thanks to all who help run it.





EDITED - Fixed Icon Error - Bajanne, Moderator
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« Reply #26 on: August 06, 2010, 08:25:13 AM »
any drawing or dialysis related?
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« Reply #27 on: August 06, 2010, 09:29:01 AM »
Happy 5-year anniversary everyone!!  :beer1;
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« Reply #28 on: August 06, 2010, 10:18:46 AM »
 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

 :bow; :bow; :bow; :bow; :bow;
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bladder cancer 1994
renal failure April 2009 due to blocked right ureter. Left kidney 20% function
November 18 2009 surgery to remove right ureter.
April 3, 2010 removal bladder, prostrate, left kidney.
June 11, 2010 started Hemo @ hospital
July 2, 2010 Embolized right Kidney due to hemoraging of tumor
September 11, 2010 RIP my love
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« Reply #29 on: August 06, 2010, 10:55:48 AM »
This is a wonderful forum. Keep up the good work!  :grouphug;
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May 2010 : started HD
Dec 2010 : switched to PD
Jan 2011 : completed transplant eval @ Mayo Arizona
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« Reply #30 on: August 06, 2010, 11:02:30 AM »
Quote from: Sluff on August 05, 2010, 07:43:01 PM
IHD 5TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONTEST

LET'S CELEBRATE 5 YEARS WITH 5 WAYS TO WIN!

Contests:

ESSAY: 5 ways IHD has improved my life - Best Essay - One Winner

DRAWING: Enter a post on the drawing thread - try your luck, name randomly pulled from a hat - One Winner

POETRY: A limerick is a five-line poem: Give us a kidney related limewrick - here are some samples - http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=18951.0 - Best Limerick - One Winner

RECIPE: Renal-Friendly Recipe using 5 ingredients (no more, no less) - Tastiest Recipe - One Winner

T-SHIRT DESIGN: Give us a new design idea - slogan or image - to sell in the IHD store - One Winner (cannot duplicate ideas in the Design thread started by Epoman.)

Prizes:

Each winner will get a one year upgrade to Premium status plus a Value T-shirt or Tote Bag  (you get to choose the design and size from our IHateDialysis Store on Cafepress.) Other goodies will be announced later. (WOO HOO!  more surprises!!)

Contest ends August 31st. All entries must be submitted by midnight PST.

Entries will be judged by the admins and moderators. No bribes allowed.

I have a couple of entries already - keep 'em coming!  :cheer:
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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 -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #31 on: August 06, 2010, 11:04:39 AM »
BTW here's the thread for your chance to win in a random drawing http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=19753.0
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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 -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #32 on: August 06, 2010, 01:20:57 PM »
HAPPY 5TH!
Keep up the good work. More forums like this are needed,
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« Reply #33 on: August 06, 2010, 01:32:18 PM »
When I thought I was all alone in the world, I discovered IHD while playing on the internet oneday. Thank goodness for IHD.
Happy 5th Anniversary.
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« Reply #34 on: August 06, 2010, 07:40:07 PM »
This is SO emotional for me.  I am weeping as I type.  This will be nearly 5 years for me on IHD (I joined the September) and nearly 5 years on dialysis.  I cannot quantify what IHD meant to me then and what it means for me now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, IHD!!!!!!!  :birthday;  :birthday;  :birthday;  :birthday;  :birthday;
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« Reply #35 on: August 06, 2010, 08:00:46 PM »
5 years   :2thumbsup;    Where would my emotional health be if I hadn't found IHD?   There is so much I wouldn't know about if I were only getting information from my neph.   Truly, IHD changed my life.  I am a much better patient, I cope with things in a better way, and I continue to learn that I am not alone or crazy.  Restless legs is real.  Throwing up is real.  Insomnia is real.  Depression is real.  Thank you all for sharing your experiences.  Everything is easier when we can lean on each other.   A special thank you to Sluff for taking Epoman's vision and keeping it alive. You have done an exeptional job and we love you.  Also to Okarol, who spends countless hours to make this the best site on the internet.   If the two of you hadn't stepped up when we lost Epoman, we could have lost this whole community.   Thank you to each member who make IHD what it is.   My heart is full with love and respect for each of you.   

Happy Birthday IHD!!    :yahoo;     :clap;     :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #36 on: August 06, 2010, 09:04:28 PM »
aww, what wonderful posts... (paris, so true!)  Of all my hubbys issues, and boards i've searched, this is thee one i've stuck with to learn, to calm, and to participate in.  It's an amazing road this dialysis, and you all have made the bumps a much smoother ride.  thanks to all who have given their hearts and time to help us all.  It has surly been a blessing...   :yahoo;   :2thumbsup;   :clap;   ;D   :grouphug;   :thx;   and............. a big   :boxing; to kidney disease  hehe     
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We thank God for every day we are blessed to have together.
november 2010, patiently (ha!) waiting our turn for NxStage training
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« Reply #37 on: August 06, 2010, 11:33:09 PM »
Happy 5th Birthday IHD!

         :yahoo;

Epoman and Goffynina are dancing !    :bandance;
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« Reply #38 on: August 06, 2010, 11:45:35 PM »
And a very happy 5th birthday from me!
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« Reply #39 on: August 08, 2010, 08:33:01 PM »
Sorry ladies, I talked to youtube and they denied my video on the grounds of gross indecency and the fact that their reviewer was taken to the ER shortly after viewing my nudie run. I tried to plead that it was for such a good cause of such a noble and worthy site, but they said in the interests of the public health and mental wellbeing they just couldn't put it up......
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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 #40 on: August 08, 2010, 08:33:20 PM »
Karol is truly the one who deserves most of the credit for keeping the forum alive. I have been driving truck for a year now and am lucky to have time to get on here and post. The vision and my motivation are still very much alive but I must confess that Karol carries much of the weight these days. So thank you Karol.

Thank you to the moderators also for if it were not for you, the admins would not have time enough in the day to do what we have to do.

Members without you we wouldn't exist, thank you and the most important thing you can do to help is to post often and welcome the new people to the board and spread the word at your clinic.

Pretty soon we will be getting ready for another holiday gift exchange so get your post count up now in order to be able to take part in this years gift exchange. Next year we are having a huge get together also so start saving your pennies now!


I truly love you all

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« Reply #41 on: August 08, 2010, 09:38:26 PM »
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« Reply #42 on: August 08, 2010, 11:24:10 PM »
 :birthday; Congratulations for your 5th birthday, what would I have done with out this site, you all made life a little bit easier for me.
Thank you  Yvonne
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2007 - March Diagnosed with a Horseshoe kidney and bladder cancer.
2007 - June One kidney, Prostrate and Bladder removed with stage 4 cancer. Urostomy
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« Reply #43 on: August 09, 2010, 12:22:14 AM »
Happy Fifth Birthday on the sixth IHD.  Sorry I'm coming up late but the 6th was my grandson's birthday also.  Thank you IHD you've been a saviour to us all.

Love, Mimi
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« Reply #44 on: August 09, 2010, 05:01:05 AM »
Happy 5th.....

Here's to the next fifty-five years!!!!....

Darth....
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« Reply #45 on: August 09, 2010, 05:09:47 AM »
5 YEARS--HOLY COW!!

May this always be the go-to spot for been-there support, gentle guidance, wealth of info, and most of all---Family.
Congratulations and thanks!
Now, let's get to work on the limerick. I just got back from Ireland,passed right by Limerick, hoping maybe I got the Muse there.
Umm, do I have to post my own nudie run if I win? Yikes!
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« Reply #46 on: August 09, 2010, 10:36:32 AM »
Quote from: jreeve on August 09, 2010, 05:09:47 AM

Umm, do I have to post my own nudie run if I win? Yikes!

 :rofl; We should have made that a contest on it's own!!
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Admin for IHateDialysis 2008 - 2014, retired.
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 -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #47 on: August 09, 2010, 11:41:20 AM »
5 Years  :2thumbsup;  and going strong.......

By far the best site for dialysis information and support bar none.

Thx Epoman & Family...
Big thx to ALL THE MODS..

 :beer1;
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« Reply #48 on: August 09, 2010, 09:21:56 PM »
Happy fifth, IHD. I am late with my congratulations because my son also had the good taste to be born the first week of August.

:beer1;
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« Reply #49 on: August 10, 2010, 02:08:00 AM »
I have had lots of ups and downs this last year of which I couldn't share with anyone else except with IHD. I can tell you's things I can't and never tell anyone else in my life.

I have cried with members when they suffer and I have rejoiced with you through the good times.

Thankyou to each and every one of you (even David13 wherever you are)!!

Thankyou to the moderators!!!

Thankyou to Epoman and the original brain behind this site.!

You have enriched my life and without you I would not have survived this disease!!!!

I love you all very much.

ps HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
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