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gaelicdevil
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« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2011, 02:44:57 PM »
No, not that. I don't doubt anyone's responses. More of a reference to myself I guess. Weird hours, long nights, empty house, just need some chains to drag around or change my name to Casper.
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« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2011, 02:57:00 PM »
I just turned 38 and am a female.
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« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2011, 03:12:36 PM »
Quote from: gaelicdevil on March 25, 2011, 02:44:57 PM
No, not that. I don't doubt anyone's responses. More of a reference to myself I guess. Weird hours, long nights, empty house, just need some chains to drag around or change my name to Casper.

Tell me about it. Weird hours. Insomnia while the rest of the world sleeps. Empty house. Too many questions late at night with no-one
to answer them.
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2011, 03:18:18 PM »
Or even to  talk too. The eight year old Basset even gets tired of me. It's funny how all the Doctors want to do is throw more pills at you. No thanks.
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« Reply #29 on: March 25, 2011, 04:36:10 PM »
Quote from: gaelicdevil on March 25, 2011, 03:18:18 PM
Or even to  talk too. The eight year old Basset even gets tired of me. It's funny how all the Doctors want to do is throw more pills at you. No thanks.
I can match that with an 9 year old labrador who is currently snoring! Unimpressed.
Don't even get me started on the pills. 20 a day. Steroids that drive you crazy. BP tablets that don't work. And Doctors that keep changing things.
And good old fear that keeps you awake long into the night.
Don't let anyone tell you a transplant makes it easier...
 
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #30 on: March 25, 2011, 08:29:31 PM »
I never figured it would. For it isn't a cure it is a treatment. I am supposed to do cadaver pancreas/kidney transplant someday. Not looking forward to it. Sometimes I wish I would go to sleep and never wake up. I always find it ironic that I am universal donor O negative. LOL
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« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2011, 08:31:59 PM »
I'm 27 going on 28 this June, female of course. First got sick when I was 16/17, I did PD for six months before getting a transplant. Nine years later and I'm back on dialysis only hemo this time, it's been a little over a year now. I don't know, I'll take the pills and chaos over dialysis any day, my life and well being was 100X better than this. I'm weak, always exhausted, my hair is thinning, I can't do much recreational wise, I have congestive heart failure because of the complications I've endured while being on dialysis, and I hate fluid restriction. I'm pursuing a second transplant, Monday I was told someone went in to be tested so I have my fingers crossed, this would be the fourth person so far. The other three, when mixing our blood together, my blood had a bad reaction to theirs. Here's hoping! 
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« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2011, 08:41:41 PM »
I feel for you. I know when I was 27 I still had a life. And a Love. How hard we sometimes fall. I don't have too many regrets. Still things I would like to do...I guess we will see.
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« Reply #33 on: March 25, 2011, 09:39:06 PM »
Well I am AB+ which in theory is the easiest blood group to match ... but there's a lot more to worry about than the blood group.
Its 4.40am in my time zone what about in yours?
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #34 on: March 25, 2011, 09:55:39 PM »
I am about what 8 hours behind you. Ghost Lady got your chains out yet??
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« Reply #35 on: March 25, 2011, 09:57:56 PM »
Too much vodka
Too many chains
Long and empty night
Now watching cars drive round in circles ...bit like life ...going nowhere fast
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #36 on: March 25, 2011, 10:03:04 PM »
I remember a nice gin and tonic or a pint of the bitter to put me to sleep. Once in a galaxy, far, far away...
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« Reply #37 on: March 25, 2011, 10:09:15 PM »
In the next galaxy, transplantland, suddenley you're expected to drink 3 litres a day.
Doesn't put me to sleep but does help take away that wired feeling for awhile.
Can't hoover or cut the grass this time of the night, might upset the neighbours...
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #38 on: March 25, 2011, 10:09:42 PM »
Was I in the passenger seat screaming "Jim, you can't push it any faster!!!???"
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« Reply #39 on: March 25, 2011, 10:12:20 PM »
Live Long and Prosper
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« Reply #40 on: March 25, 2011, 10:17:14 PM »
Caspar himself has come out to haunt you eerie...
Very fast cars I'm watching in the land of downunder x
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #41 on: March 25, 2011, 10:41:41 PM »
Sugarlump,
Jim always put it to the metal! Maybe we should!
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« Reply #42 on: March 25, 2011, 10:46:01 PM »
Sorry Ladies I can't send anymore personal messages on this site, try me on messenger/MSN.
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« Reply #43 on: March 25, 2011, 10:48:59 PM »
I'm always a bit reckless behind the wheel anyway.
Life's too short to go slow!
Flat out is good.
Live each day as if its your last!
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #44 on: March 25, 2011, 11:01:45 PM »
That's a little tune by White Zombie called Thunder Kiss 65, and hammer down Ladies.
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« Reply #45 on: March 25, 2011, 11:19:14 PM »
Wish I was driving one of them cars that are annoying RM in MElbourne right now!!!
I'd probably crash and end up in the lake!!!
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #46 on: March 25, 2011, 11:22:24 PM »
See my problem with that statement is "Is that a bad thing"? But that's me glass half empty.
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« Reply #47 on: March 25, 2011, 11:25:58 PM »
Is what a bad thing?
Annoying RM or ending up in the lake?
Think of the beautiful car!!!!
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #48 on: March 25, 2011, 11:45:09 PM »
They would just extract it from the pond and rebuild it. You on the other hand...
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Type 1 diabetic, fistula October 2010, Hemodialysis January 2011, triple by-pass heart surgery November 2011, hoping for transplant, O negative, universal donor, still breathing.
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« Reply #49 on: March 25, 2011, 11:47:26 PM »
I'm invincible AND I can swim!!!!
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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