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"The Enemy" by Lee Child (a Jack Reacher novel).
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« Reply #1076 on: May 14, 2013, 08:03:21 AM » |
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Total Control by David Baldacci Learning more about advances in technology and microchips than I ever wanted to know!!!  |
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« Reply #1077 on: May 14, 2013, 11:03:08 AM » |
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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August 16th, 1996 - Born in Sacramento, CA; Born with Posterior Urethral Valves
September 2008 - Large Reconstruction, bladder augmented, stoma placed and ureters fixed
September 2010 - Needed emergency hip surgery for Slipped Capital Femoral Epithysis
September 2010 - Started Dialysis without refusal (Big mistake)
Summer/Fall 2011 - "Inactivated" on the Inactive Transplant List
October 2012 - Activated on the transplant list
November 30th, 2012 - Surgeons threatening to not to a transplant based on weight
April 25th, 2013 - Lost 25 pounds (97kg), however developed highly resistant bladder bacteria, Inactivated from list until eradicated
May 15th, 2013 - Finally cleared of the bacteria, reactivating on list imminent.
May 24th, 2013 - Reactivated on the list!
June 8th, 2013 - Transplant!
June 19th, 2013 - Dialysis Catheter officially removed and returned home from the hospital!
June 21st, 2016 - Sleeve Gastrectomy
March 11th, 2019 - Revision to Gastric Bypass
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« Reply #1078 on: May 14, 2013, 04:18:13 PM » |
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Pandora's Lunchbox by Melanie Warner. About processed food (of which I've never eaten much)
Did you know that China now takes about 80% of Australia's wool clip? It's not for the wool. It's to make vitamins from the lanolin!! And that China now manufactures around 80% of the worlds vitamins?
I'm so glad I've always cooked from scratch.
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« Reply #1079 on: May 14, 2013, 05:43:52 PM » |
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I am currently reading "Sister" by Rosamund Lupton for our book club next week. It's confusing me because it is in the first person but it's written as if the author is talking to a dead person and then the timeframe keeps jumping back and forth. I'm bound and determined to get through it though because it will be the first book I'll have gotten through for book club this year.
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« Reply #1080 on: May 14, 2013, 06:10:47 PM » |
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"The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel An journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus
A good read for those who need convincing or if your interested in Christian apologetics.
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liver transplant 3/22/2005
CKD 2008
fistula 11/17/2011
catheter 2/07/2012
started hemo-dialysis in center 2/07/2012
fistula transposition 3/08/2012
NxStage at home 3/29/2012
Using fistula at home 6/25/2012
Using new NxStage S High-Flow cycler 3/04/2014
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« Reply #1081 on: May 15, 2013, 11:27:40 AM » |
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"How the States Got Their Shapes" by Mark Stein. A fascinating history lesson and well-written. There is a chapter about each state and how the borders came to be what they are. The book is like eating chips...you read one chapter, then just one more, and then OK just one more...a page turner for sure. I got the book for $7 at Barnes & Noble where it was in the NY Times best seller display by the door. Yeah, I'm a sucker for such obvious merchandising tactics.  |
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« Reply #1082 on: May 16, 2013, 03:30:14 AM » |
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I read one Dean Koontz, scared me so much I was afraid to read another.
Don't remember the title & much of the story, but never forgot this part:
A man picked up a teenaged hitchhiker took her to his home & strung her up in a pitch dark basement with just the tips of her toes touching the floor.
After several days he opened some air vents & let in thousands of ants & over the next week or so they slowly ate her alive.
I kept thinking he was giving some depraved psyco an idea on how to torture someone.
Anyone know the title of that book & are all his books like that?
Jane
That's horrible now I have that image in my head too.
I am not sure we need to read stuff like that!!!!
The real world is bad enough...Can anyone suggest a nice read (preferably with a happy ending) and defo NO hitchhikers or basements or ants please...  |
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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 #1083 on: May 16, 2013, 09:33:06 AM » |
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I read one Dean Koontz, scared me so much I was afraid to read another.
Don't remember the title & much of the story, but never forgot this part:
A man picked up a teenaged hitchhiker took her to his home & strung her up in a pitch dark basement with just the tips of her toes touching the floor.
After several days he opened some air vents & let in thousands of ants & over the next week or so they slowly ate her alive.
I kept thinking he was giving some depraved psyco an idea on how to torture someone.
Anyone know the title of that book & are all his books like that?
Jane
That's horrible now I have that image in my head too.
I am not sure we need to read stuff like that!!!!
The real world is bad enough...
Can anyone suggest a nice read (preferably with a happy ending) and defo NO hitchhikers or basements or ants please...
Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d'Lacey The Help by Kathryn Stockett |
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August 16th, 1996 - Born in Sacramento, CA; Born with Posterior Urethral Valves
September 2008 - Large Reconstruction, bladder augmented, stoma placed and ureters fixed
September 2010 - Needed emergency hip surgery for Slipped Capital Femoral Epithysis
September 2010 - Started Dialysis without refusal (Big mistake)
Summer/Fall 2011 - "Inactivated" on the Inactive Transplant List
October 2012 - Activated on the transplant list
November 30th, 2012 - Surgeons threatening to not to a transplant based on weight
April 25th, 2013 - Lost 25 pounds (97kg), however developed highly resistant bladder bacteria, Inactivated from list until eradicated
May 15th, 2013 - Finally cleared of the bacteria, reactivating on list imminent.
May 24th, 2013 - Reactivated on the list!
June 8th, 2013 - Transplant!
June 19th, 2013 - Dialysis Catheter officially removed and returned home from the hospital!
June 21st, 2016 - Sleeve Gastrectomy
March 11th, 2019 - Revision to Gastric Bypass
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« Reply #1084 on: May 16, 2013, 02:50:04 PM » |
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finished The Enemy, and am now reading another Jack Reacher novel: Persuader (In between watching old Law & Order episodes) .
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« Reply #1085 on: May 20, 2013, 05:38:44 AM » |
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I'm currently reading 'ice cream girls' after watching a TV adaptation of it. Its good real page turner
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1982 - born with one imperfect kidney and no bladder, parents told i would not survive
1984 - urostomy op
1990 - bladder built out of colon
2007 - birth of son, gfr fall from 3O to 26
July2011 - birth of prem daughter, gfr 17%
August2011 - gfr drop to 10%
29th May2012 - RECEIVED KIDNEY 4/6 match from my wonderful dad !
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« Reply #1086 on: May 20, 2013, 01:09:46 PM » |
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I just finished "The Meowmorphosis" by Franz Kafka & Coleridge Cook.
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Think GOD doesn't have a sense of humor?
HE created marriage and children.
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« Reply #1087 on: May 20, 2013, 07:45:46 PM » |
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"Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles. Set in New York in the 1930's.
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr. 2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #1088 on: May 21, 2013, 08:16:28 AM » |
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I just picked up Michael Pollan's "Cooked" at the library and need to finish "Tumbleweeds" by Leila Meacham before it's due date (I've already renewed it once!)  |
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« Reply #1089 on: May 21, 2013, 08:21:18 AM » |
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Just started reading (again!) "Fear Nothing" by Dean Koontz.
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HE created marriage and children.
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« Reply #1090 on: May 21, 2013, 08:45:08 AM » |
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Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris. It is the 13th and final book in the series. This is the series that the True Blood TV series on HBO was created by. I have read them all and I am so sad to know that this is the end.
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« Reply #1091 on: June 21, 2013, 06:42:01 AM » |
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I picked up Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (by Jonathan Sarfan Foer) at the library last week and I am LOVING it. It's actually made me cry on the bus. I haven't see the film and I've already decided that I don't want to; some books shouldn't be made into films and I think this is one of them. I highly recommend it. I actually picked it up by accident. I tend to browse the teen and young-adult shelves and it was on a shelf in the pre-teen section as I walked past. It's definitely not a children's (or even young-adult) book! It uses very strong language and has sex scenes. Oh! Somebody best tell the librarians that having a picture of a boy on the front cover and a nine-year old protagonist does not automatically make it a book for children. It has really moved me in ways that I can't convey; it's literally blown my mind. I don't even want to finish it because I fear that it's going to make me sob and leave me with so many unanswered questions which will play on my mind for years. There aren't many books which have affected me like this and I really struggle with the emotions and thoughts it's sprung on me. Silly book! But lovely book.  |
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« Reply #1092 on: June 21, 2013, 11:38:28 AM » |
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I've seen the movie, which led me to pick up the book, but it's waiting to be read. Glad to hear it's worthwhile!
I'm in the middle of re-reading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels (the movie Master and Commander was drawn from the first two). Now, if I could just get my students working on a game about sailing ships and sea battles to read them.
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« Reply #1093 on: June 21, 2013, 06:04:52 PM » |
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Speed cleaning in Fifteen Minutes... It's took me over fifteen minutes to read Chapter One and that just covers cleaning the front door and path!!!!  |
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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 #1094 on: June 23, 2013, 08:39:15 PM » |
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Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
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« Reply #1096 on: June 24, 2013, 03:23:09 AM » |
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It's took me over fifteen minutes to read Chapter One and that just covers cleaning the front door and path!!!!
I had a cleaning book once that insisted that I should take my vacuum cleaner up into the space between the roof and ceiling every six months. In their dreams! 
Mine's full of insulation so hoovering it wouldn't do much good!!! Chapter Two: The Entrance Hall,. Apparently I need an umbrella stand and a mirror. My hall is so tiny it won't take 15 minutes to clean that... |
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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 #1097 on: June 24, 2013, 11:24:15 AM » |
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I have recently regained the ability to read (and comprehend) during my long journey with Lyme. Sorry to say, the first non-fiction book I tackled is "The Hand" by Frank White. It outlines the role our hands play in intelligence. Pretty fascinating! But prior to taking on non-fiction, I hunkered down with a book Hanify left with me last year, Black Angel, by John Connelly. Pretty riveting. It took me over a year to reach the point that I could actually pick it up and read..... I'm getting better!  |
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« Reply #1098 on: June 25, 2013, 02:02:20 PM » |
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Finished my last book! Yes, I have actually read every book in my house!
Off to the Goodwill to find something to hold me over until the weekend's garage sales!
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« Reply #1099 on: June 29, 2013, 01:42:03 AM » |
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Did a charity shop raid yesterday and came home with three books for dialysis reading. The first one, that I started is called ANOTHER MAN@S LIFE by Greg Williams. Actually really good book. Am hooked. Two twin brothers who envy each other's lives, one single and one married, swap places to see whether the grass really is greener on the other side. Interesting in that it is written from the bloke's point of view and written in a quite gritty, realistic but still humorous way. A step up from the usual chick lit (God I hate that expression!!!)  |
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