I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
November 26, 2024, 12:41:34 AM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
532606 Posts in 33561 Topics by 12678 Members
Latest Member: astrobridge
* Home Help Search Login Register
+  I Hate Dialysis Message Board
|-+  Introduction
| |-+  Introduce Yourself
| | |-+  new here		 0 Members and 4 Guests are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: new here  (Read 3688 times)
baileynanakathy
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 1
« on: March 05, 2007, 07:05:52 PM »
hi my name is kathy and i have polycystic kidney disease.  i have 15% kidney function left at this time.  i was told dialysis within the year.  i was an icu nurse for 13 years until i was injured at work and had to go on leave.  i am now on social security for severe arthritis in both hips.  i have been off work for 4 years.  i have 2 children, 23 year old daughter and 20 year old son.  i also have a granddaughter, bailey, who is the light of my life.  i am helping to raise my granddaughter.  i am interested in all things kidney related and read a lot off of the internet.  thanks for the opportunity to join your group!!!! :thx;
Logged
"what does not kill only makes you stronger"
Sluff
Member for Life
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 43869
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2007, 07:22:24 PM »
Welcome to IHD Baileynanakathy,

I'm glad you found us because we are like family here at IHD.

This is an awesome support group, so I hope you take advantage of that and join us in the chatroom occasionally.

The information here is endless. If you need anything just ask, anyone here will be more than happy to help you.

Welcome to our family, post often and enjoy the site.

-Sluff / Administrator
Logged
tubes
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 598


Miss you so much Susie. Will always <3 you!
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2007, 07:25:07 PM »
 :welcomesign; to IHD baileynanakathy .

Very supportive family here.  You'll find tons of info to wrap your brain around.  ;)

 :cuddle;
Robert
Logged
"To be happy is the choice I wish to make in spite of the circumstances that are strewn in my path."

1996 - started incenter hemo
a few months later, started PD
2005 - started incenter hemo
AGAIN
  - on transplant list as of August 7, 2009.
2011/June - 15 years on "D"
Transplant - Tuesday October 18th 2011
anja
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 708
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2007, 07:28:21 PM »
 :welcomesign; baileynanakathy to the community!
Logged
carolyn77531
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 112
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2007, 07:38:17 PM »
 :welcomesign;
Logged
YOU are stronger than you realize.
Wiser than you know.
What was once your life is now your legend.........
Bajanne
Member for Life
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 5337


Goofynina and Epoman - Gone But Not Forgotten

WWW
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2007, 08:00:39 PM »
Welcome to our community.  We are so glad that you have decided to join us.  You will find that this site will help to prepare you for this challenging experience of dialysis. That is what it did for me.  So take your time, read the relevant threads and posts, ask questions.  And please keep posting and letting us know how you are doing.  This is a very comprehensive site and we have lots of interesting posts, even some which have nothing to do with dialysis.  So, enjoy this site!  HEre is a group hug from all of us. :grouphug;


Bajanne, Moderator
Logged
"To be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own ...but that which is based on faith"



I LOVE  my IHD family! :grouphug;
kelliOR
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 298
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2007, 08:28:39 PM »
Hi Baileynanakathy!

I'm also a nurse, and have PKD.  Nice to meet you.    kelli
Logged
Shoot for the Moon.....Even if you miss, you'll end up among the Stars ........


Denied PKD for years (Boy, was I good at it!)
Dragged kicking and screaming to dialysis (in center hemo)
Transplant from a friend March 24, 2006 at OHSU
kitkatz
Member for Life
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 17042
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2007, 08:33:29 PM »
Welcome to the site.  There is tons of information here.
Logged


lifenotonthelist.com

Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5

Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
angela515
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 3385


i am awesome.
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2007, 08:34:34 PM »
Im not a nurse YET, but will be within a few years.  :welcomesign;
Logged
Live Donor Transplant From My Mom 12/14/1999
Perfect Match (6 of 6) Cadaver Transplant On 1/14/2007
mcjane
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 697
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2007, 08:59:29 PM »
Hi  & a big welcome from aniother nurse & to Kidney 101 @ IHD. There is more information here than you'll find in any text book.

Jane
Logged
Zach
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 4820


"Still crazy after all these years."
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2007, 09:11:53 PM »
Hey Kathy, glad you joined us!
 :beer1;
Logged
Uninterrupted in-center (self-care) hemodialysis since 1982 -- 34 YEARS on March 3, 2016 !!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No transplant.  Not yet, anyway.  Only decided to be listed on 11/9/06. Inactive at the moment.  ;)
I make films.

Just the facts: 70.0 kgs. (about 154 lbs.)
Treatment: Tue-Thur-Sat   5.5 hours, 2x/wk, 6 hours, 1x/wk
Dialysate flow (Qd)=600;  Blood pump speed(Qb)=315
Fresenius Optiflux-180 filter--without reuse
Fresenius 2008T dialysis machine
My KDOQI Nutrition (+/ -):  2,450 Calories, 84 grams Protein/day.

"Living a life, not an apology."
Joe Paul
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 4841
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2007, 10:01:03 PM »
Welcome baileynanakathy, good to have you aboard.
Logged
"The history of discovery is completed by those who don't follow rules"
Angels are with us, but don't take GOD for granted
Transplant Jan. 8, 2010
tamara
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 1524


WOO HOO NEW KIDNEY PEEING !!!(Transplant 23/10/07)
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2007, 01:18:02 AM »
Hi Kathy and  :welcomesign;

Great to see you here, see you aroun in the forum or maybe in chat !

Tamara xxx ooo  :cuddle; :beer1;  :cuddle;
Logged
ABO Incompatible Transplant from my loving Partner 23/10/07
after over four years on the D Machine 

                                                                                                                  
Dialysis Sucks and Transplants Don't.................So Far Anyway !!!!!
Wattle
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 2306
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2007, 01:33:40 AM »
 :welcomesign;
Logged
PKD
June 2005 Commenced PD Dialysis
July 13th 2009 Cadaveric 5/6 Antigen Match Transplant from my Special Angel
kimcanada
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 2802


WWW
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2007, 03:45:59 AM »
 :welcomesign; Kathy

You will find tons of info here about dialysis

Kim
Logged
**********************
**********************
http://www.kimhoben.com
**********************
**********************
thegrammalady
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 3788
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2007, 07:38:53 AM »
 :welcomesign; :clap;
Logged
s
......................................................................................
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

Meddle Not In The Affairs Of Dragons
For You Are Crunchy And Taste Good With Ketchup
billoggblog
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 104


You Dialyse to Live....You Don't live to Dialyse!
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2007, 12:14:56 PM »
Hi Kathy, :welcomesign;
It seems to me that you have had quite a tough 4 years, and I hope your kidney function lasts a lot longer than predicted.
Good Luck
Bill
Logged
Yesterday is History..........Tomorrow is Mystery..........
Today is a Gift...That's why they call it Present.
jedimaster
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 353


Stainboy is....alive!!!
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2007, 10:02:58 AM »
 :welcomesign;
Logged
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
 
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP SMF 2.0.17 | SMF © 2019, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!