Steel Magnolias

[Dry-Pack-Babe]

Tonight, I'm going to watch it and eat Poppycock. I love that movie. And for those of you who haven't seen it, Julia Roberts character has kidney disease and dies from it. Cheerful thought.

I adore the movie. I am a huge fan of movies and TV shows about southern women. There is one scene in it that I find TERRIFYING. Julia is on the floor, passed out and the baby is crying while a pot is on the stove bubbling over. I was so afraid that the baby was going to get scalded by that pot. But thank God, it didn't happen.

I would love to see more stories with characters living with kidney disease.

[jbeany]

Seen Seven Pounds with Will Smith yet?

[okarol]

Trying to think of other movies that reference kidneys - so far:
Airport 1975: Among the passengers: a famous movie star Gloria Swanson; a lovely teen-ager awaiting kidney transplant (Linda Blair); the wife and son of the airport operations chief (Susan Clark and Brian Morrison); two nuns (Martha Scott and Helen Reddy)

[rsudock]

I love that movie too! Sally Field what a wonderful actress!! Steal Magnolias was on the the first night I was alone in the hospital after recovering from my transplant...I was thinking, "I hope this is a good omen?!"


xo,
R

[Rerun]

My favorite line from that movie "If you don't have anything nice to say... sit by me"   

"Remember Me" is a good movie about transplants.  The older one... there is a new movie with the same title..

[Stacy Without An E]

"Seven Pounds" is an incredible film and I implore everyone to see it.  Its not specifically about kidney transplants per say, but it is about transplantation on a very emotional level.  I warn you though, it will break your heart.

TV seems to be the format that's stepping up lately to at least feature Dialysis and transplantation.  If you watch "House" religiously, it comes up all the time.  I keep hearing about the latest season of "Desperate Housewives" featureing a character on Dialysis, but it would take a lot to get me to watch.

Our numbers are growing every day as more and more people don't take care of the healthy body they were given.  The time is ripe for a TV show that tells the story of a Dialysis clinic from both sides, the staff and the patients.

I dont know about your clinic, but mine is like a high school with cliques, gossiping, and drama.

I'll get to work on that idea right away

[MooseMom]

You could call it "Dialysis Divas".

The latest ep of House that I saw was about a woman who had the usual mystifying malady, and House just bunged her on dialysis.  Come to find out, she was allergic to the material used in the filter itself, so she had to have a transplant.  Her estranged sister offered, and it all seemed to happen in mere hours.  I had no idea that dialysis and transplantation could look so easy!

It sorta creeps me out when they start talking about renal symptoms because I already know the diagnosis.  When they start bandying about words like "nephrotic" or "glomerular" or "hyperparathyroidism", I feel like I could have written that script.