Home hemo and having to pee

[Zog]

Don't recirculate too long using a peanut.  The machine still thinks you are attached.  If you are clever and turn the DFR to zero to "pause" the treatment, you will get a yellow 6 alarm.

Food for thought... your blood cells are alive and part of you.  When you leave them in the machine and go pee, you are two places at once.

[MooseMom]

Food for thought... your blood cells are alive and part of you.  When you leave them in the machine and go pee, you are two places at once.

Ooooh, that sounds all quantam physic-y!

[lmunchkin]

You know, that is a good way to explain it!  Just stick to porta potties Moosey!

lmunch

[Annig83]

I'm on CAPD at home, so it's probably different for me than you guys.  I still pee at night, but I have a 20 foot line of tubing that allows me to reach the bathroom, living room, my son's crib, and of course my bed.  I do nocturnal because during the day I don't have time with having a 1 yr old son... but I like the nocturnal also because I don't feel full from filling, and when I wake up in the morning all I have to do is disconnect myself and go.

[natnnnat]

Food for thought... your blood cells are alive and part of you.  When you leave them in the machine and go pee, you are two places at once.

I love it!!!   
How long do your cells remain part of you?  So when you've pee'd, and you are walking back to your machine, are you... three places at once?
(ARHG)

[lmunchkin]

I'm on CAPD at home, so it's probably different for me than you guys.  I still pee at night, but I have a 20 foot line of tubing that allows me to reach the bathroom, living room, my son's crib, and of course my bed.  I do nocturnal because during the day I don't have time with having a 1 yr old son... but I like the nocturnal also because I don't feel full from filling, and when I wake up in the morning all I have to do is disconnect myself and go.

Yes PD does accomodate with longer lines.  Much different for hemo.

lmunch

[richbl]

I don't know what he's for

   Well, that's just odd.  The Mysterious Mr. Peanut.

We use Mr. Peanut to connect the two ends of the blood line (venous to arterial) during setup. So, you end up with one continuous loop that keeps the ends aseptic until it's time to get on the machine. He ultimately gets tossed after I've placed my needles.

That said, I call Mr. Peanut " the monkey paw" since it sounds more ominous...

As for having to pee (particularly when doing extended runs), I use a good old-fashioned hospital urinal.

[bmil1652]

So you diconnect both lines from the body and attach to the peanut.  Then you push treatment???  And then stop when you get back, attach and then treatment again???
How does affect your actual treatment results?

[CebuShan]

How funny! We've always called it "The little guy"!   
We were told to attach it to the yellow line coming off the Saline bag when you hook up the waste line.
As for recirculating, we have a bag full of hook ups to attach. They function the same way as "Mr. Peanut" but look slightly different. Not as fancy! 

[Willis]

With my normal CAPD line I can't quite reach the bathroom. I don't have to get up during the night often so I really don't want to hassle with an extra section of tubing. So...I keep one of those plastic bottles like they give you at the hospital near my bedside. When I had my PD cath surgery I took a bunch of unused bottles home with me, but I'm sure they could be purchased online. I suppose using a plastic bottle is easier for a male, but there have been a few times I just couldn't wait and the plastic bottle is designed for this purpose. In the morning after I disconnect I dump the bottle and rinse it out good and then it's ready for next time.

 

[M3Riddler]

So you diconnect both lines from the body and attach to the peanut.  Then you push treatment???  And then stop when you get back, attach and then treatment again???
How does affect your actual treatment results?

In the large picture, it would have very little affect on your treatment results...

[Adam_W]

I knew a guy who was on nocturnal home hemo and when he had to use the bathroom at night he would roll his entire dialysis machine into the bathroom with him. It wasn't a NxStage machine either!