The First Dialysis Story written by US!

[kitkatz]

Okay so for a little fun here is the beginning of our great dialysis story.   I am going to begin a story and everyone can add a little to the story at a time.  You can add a paragraph at a time per post. This way everyone can write a little part. The story should be posted in bold letters, that way comments can be made as we write this story. Remember we are all readers and writers, as well as editors.  If you do not like what is happening in the story change it.





Here it begins.

      Samantha was tired.  The day had been long and it was not over yet.  Dialysis was waiting for her next.  She swore at the hallway walls as she pulled her bra off and threw a shirt on. She was running late as usual and would probably get caught in traffic on  the way to the dialysis center. She packed a small bag of snacks and barrelled out the door.  She told her cat goodbye as she closed the door to her apartment.







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[angieskidney]

  An interesting idea! I remember when Sandman's gaming group did this sort of thing in his forums and called it "Never ending story..." and it went on for 8 pages. I wonder how long we can make this one




Samantha walked briskly down the hallway to the elevator hoping no one would be in it. She didn't feel like being delayed at all by chatty people. Not that she minded a good conversation but she didn't like coming across as rude as the door opened and she had to cut the conversation short.

She pushed the button and waited for a minute until the door opened and she was glad to see her luck was with her today. She rode down to the lobby and then walked out to ...


** thx Black. I knew it didn't look right but I was too tired to think straight

[Black]

Angie -- I think you meant : "rode" down to the lobby

[Rerun]

... the hallway lined with wheelchairs.  The stench of bleach and plastic filled the air.  That familiar smell that made her sick to her stomach everytime.  As she entered the office the waiting room was full.  Not a good sign as that meant they were running late.  The receptionist was on the phone so "Sam" as her family called her, waited patiently. When the receptionist hung up she....

[Bajanne]

This is fun.  On my family's website we did one for a while, but you were only able to put in 3 words at a time.  It was quite hilarious, but it took us a long time to even get one paragraph!

...said to her, in as nice a voice as she could make it, "I am here for my dialysis session.  When do you think I would be able to go on?" 
"Well, as you can see, " the receptionist drawled, as she hooked the chewing-gum from her mouth, "the waiting-room is full.  No telling when you can get a chair."
Sam slumped into a chair in the waiting-room.  Just then she saw that Jim was there waiting too.  'Should I go over and say 'hello', or just stay here, pretending I didn't see him?' she asked herself.   He was the shift before hers and was usually leaving when she was coming.  She remembered the first day she met him when.....

[Ohio Buckeye]

he was alone and looking frightened and nervous.  Must be a "first-timer"
Sam thought.  Just as Sam decided to go over and see how Jim was
doing, the receptionist called his name.  She was rather glad.  Not in the
talking mood anway.  He stood up to go with the nurse and ............





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[Epoman]

he was alone and looking frightened and nervous.  Must be a "first-timer"
Sam thought.  Just as Sam decided to go over and see how Jim was
doing, the receptionist called his name.  She was rather glad.  Not in the
talking mood anway.  He stood up to go with the nurse and ............





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  If anyone is going to reply to this thread to add to the story, PLEASE follow the rules set forth by kitkatz in the very FIRST post. I do not want to have to have the mods edit several posts because a member did not follow the rules. The mods have enough work to do on this site as it is. So please if you are going to post at least have the courtesy to follow the rules "kitkatz" has placed.

- Epoman
Owner/Admin

[mrhecht]

smiled at Sam as he passed by. "Hey" , Sam kinda half-smiled at him as he went into the treatment room. She was weary today and weary of the never-ending sessions still ahead of her. Even though the common denominator for everyone in the waiting room was dialysis, Sam still felt like an alien among the complainers, coughers, and vacant-eyed patients who seemed to dominant this particular clinic. She had been in others over the many years. Some better, some worse. It was always a breath of fresh air to meet someone like Jim, who seemed to not be defined by the repetitious but unavoidable life support system that joined all of them together for long hours every few days.

[Rerun]

The sound of her name "Samantha" startled her and she jumped.  "We're ready for you" said the nurse.  Wow, that was fast she thought.  She picked up her things and followed the nurse to the scale.  "Crap" she thought I'm over 1.4kg.  That usually meant a rough run for her.  But, she tried to think positive.  "You'll be in the back on chair 4 today".  She hated being switched from one chair to the next everytime.  Couldn't they just give her the same damn chair!  Then she rounded the corner and they sat her right next to....

[angieskidney]

Jim! He was already seated and hooked up and had his headphones in. Sam got her standing BP while seeing if Jim noticed that she was seated beside him. Then the nurse/tech made a comment but Sam didn't hear it and asked her to repeat it. She said ...

[Rerun]

...try  to look sexy just in case Jim lookes up at you".  She then sat down and got comfortable.  She had a chest catheter so she had to wear a mask while the nurse unbuttoned her top and pulled out her catheter ends for the bloodlines.  Then she smelled something bad.....


         

[okarol]

... it was the techs in their breakroom, burning the microwave popcorn again! But this time it looked bad!
Smoke was accumulating near the ceiling across the room. No one seemed to notice! She glanced over at
Jim and...

[shay_pcb]

...he looked back at her with a look of horror across his face. Sam pointed the smoke out to the nurse/tech. The nurse rushed into the breakroom with a fire extinguisher, leaving Sam's top still  unbuttoned and catheter ends out. She looked back at Jim, who was looking back at her with a dreamy look about his face. They looked into each other's eyes for a brief moment, and then...

[mrhecht]

Jim turned his head and threw-up. The smoke and smell was really getting to him.

[jbeany]

Sam remembered her "clamp, cut and run" training, and begin to clamp off all her tubing.  Then she began to look frantically around, realizing that there were no scissors anywhere in reach.

[angela515]

I just wanted to let you all know your doing GREAT on this story... Im loving it. Ill add something soon, I cant think of nothing at this part, lol.. im not good at writing! Keep up the good work. 

[Ohio Buckeye]

I'm sorry.  I could not get mine in bold.
I kept clicking the B but would get this instead of bold.
I don't know what I did wrong.
I don't know how to get smileys either.  instead get 

[mrhecht]

The nurse with the fire extinguisher came out of the breakroom, loudly declaring that everything was fine, just a small microwave fire, but all was well. Sam breathed a sigh of relief, looked over at Jim, and said, "Glad they weren't doing any REAL cooking in that thing!" As she looked over at Jim, who appeared a bit embarrassed, she smiled and said, "I was going to pretend to be aloof and mysterious, but given that we've just been through a major disaster, I guess we can consider the ice to be broken!" Jim laughed and said.......

[angieskidney]

I'm sorry.  I could not get mine in bold.
I kept clicking the B but would get this instead of bold.
I don't know what I did wrong.
I don't know how to get smileys either.  instead get 

Type first, then select the whole thing you want to be bold, and then hit that bold button.

[Epoman]

I'm sorry.  I could not get mine in bold.
I kept clicking the B but would get this instead of bold.
I don't know what I did wrong.
I don't know how to get smileys either.  instead get 

You need to type what you want then left click and highlight (select) the entire text you want to bold THEN hit the "BOLD" button.

- Epoman

[shay_pcb]

"Yeah, but I can't believe I already puked in front of you. We haven't even been on a first date yet!" He smiled at her with vomit still in his teeth. Sam was disgusted at his sight and decided to discontinue the flirting. They finished their dialysis sessions in silence and went their separate ways. Later that day...





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[Rerun]

Sam was awoke from a dead sleep by the phone.  She said "hello" in a groggy voice.  "Hello", said .....

[kitkatz]

Jim. It was Jim on the phone, another Jim, Jim from work.  "What is it with you? I just got to sleep and you call me?" she ranted into the phone.
"Better check your clock, Sweetie."he chirped into her ear. "You are late for work today. The boss is looking for blood this morning, too."
"Oh crap!" she mumbled at the phone receiver. "I will be in as soon as I can."
She slammed down the phone, threw back the covers, stood up, and promptly...

[okarol]

...headed for the kitchen. I need coffee before I can face THIS day, she thought. Why me? If it
weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!
Sam wasn't going to hurry. It was too late to slip in unnoticed. She was just going to have to show
up late to work and face the consequences. She looked over the newspaper as she sipped the hot
coffee, and on the front page she saw...

[shay_pcb]

She saw that her buddy at the dialysis center, Jim, had gotten into a fatal car wreck with a drunk driver. The drunk driver had crossed over the yellow line and hit Jim's car head-on. Jim was killed instantly. "At least he didn't suffer," Sam thought to herself. She knew this week wasn't going to be a normal week whatsoever; she would have to attend his funeral in a few days. She then wondered if the drunk driver was an organ donor? What a thought to think after her friend had just died! She couldn't help it; she's a dialysis patient and needs a kidney!