Where have you done an exchange?

[Stu]

So I've been reading through all the posts in this section, and can see that some of you guys doing PD have found some pretty adventurous ways to do exchanges.

I'd love to hear your stories about the weirdest, most difficult, craziest places you've done an exchange. So let's hear it.... 

[Lillupie]

in  car, in a bathroom of a museem in Chicago....ummm closets, my sunroom.

I like to travel, and will gladly skip a session if there is no where else to do one that that I can close everything.

[beachbum]

I've only been on PD about 2 months so I don't have too many unusual places yet but I have tried doing exchanges in the car and it isn't that easy. Filling takes forever. I always take a few bags and supplies in the car so I don't have to run back home. We drove up to my father-in-law's place today and I had to do an exchange. I never did one in front of him before and he was a bit freaked out. I ended up hanging the bag off a nail that was coming out of a beam in his living room. Not unsual but it was fun trying to improvise.

[JLM]

In the back seat of a Ford F150 extended cab going 70 mph down the highway from TX to WI.  The 3.5 month later doing the same, only going from WI to TX.

[Atooraya]

The back seat of an F150 can be used for something else that is a lot more fun also.

[mcclane]

when i was on pd, the places i've done exchanges are pretty mundane and boring :

- in front of the tv in the living room
- downstairs in front of the computer
- at work, in a psychiatrist's office or doctor's examining room
- and at times, at the hospital
- cruise ship in our state room
- hotel room

[tbarrett2533]

my car, hotel room, the parking lot of Niagara Falls state park!!!!  grandmas, boyfriends dad's........ everywhere............. I do CAPD and its super portable, you name it, I did a treatment there!!
CAPD rules when it comes to places to go and do treatments!!!!!

[*kana*]

I have done it in a parked car.  ONLY ONLY do an exchange in a parked car!  My clinic had a PT that got in a car accident while driving and draining......the car hit something and the solution bag went flying and it was yanked out of his belly.  That would be horrific so I'd be scared to be in a moving car with a bag attached. 

[BillSharp]

I was on CAPD for 6 months in 1989 before my 1st transplant. Did an exchange in the men's card room at my golf club. I hooked up in an empty men's room stall, went out to the card room and hung my bag on the top window shade rod, did my fill-up. Everyone thought it was hilarious.

[Lillupie]

I have done it in a parked car.  ONLY ONLY do an exchange in a parked car!  My clinic had a PT that got in a car accident while driving and draining......the car hit something and the solution bag went flying and it was yanked out of his belly.  That would be horrific so I'd be scared to be in a moving car with a bag attached.

 OMG< OMG, OMG, OMG I cant believed that happened! yikes!

[justjen321]

We've used the cycler for quite awhile, and are currently switching to home hemo, BUT, when we FIRST went on PD:

In the airports medical room. They all have em, just ask. They'll let ya use em, and they have an IV pole and everything.

In a cabana in Vegas at the Golden Nuggets rockin pool. We rented a cabana with friends, it had a zippered front cover that was open most of the day, we just threw em all out on the deck, zipped it up, and viola. This falls under the list of things that don't suck.

Friends houses lots.

Hotel rooms lots.