nickname for your machine

[Redbomb]

I think Vlad would be a good name for the machine.  In fact, once I start home-hemo and get my machine, I'm going to give it a nameplate.  "Hi, My Name is Vlad". 

[cabarle]

Funny you should mention this - I nicknamed my machine "Paradise"

[babi68]

Mine is called 'Murphy Brown'..My son has just gone through chemo, and when we got the all-clear I was really excited and I told my sons oncologist to name my machine and that is what he picked.. I have no idea why, but now it is known as Murphy... strange little fellow (lovely doctor though)..LIZ

[paddbear0000]

My machine would have to be named after my 1st ex - wife DIANNE. The only difference is the machine sucks the blood out and returns it, the ex did not 

  You made me laugh.   

[highlite36]

As I dialyze in a different room each time, (I have demanded a private room and also make the tech take the needles out of the pack right in front of me, as I refuse to get AIDS or Hepatitis for the sake of saving them some time or being politically correst to other patients, namely this one lunatic called Angie, who claims that she can a transplant, but she doesn't want one, even though I've heard her begging the doctor to get her on the list., but he says no because of her condition. Hey, I'm on the transplant list, and those other peoplle aren't worth losing a kidney over, they wouldn't do it for me  if the shoe were on the other foot) I know all machines in that Hell-hole as Satan, because if that center isn't hell on Earth, I don't know what is.

Hmmm.....I don't think SATAN would be so kind as to keep you alive.  Don't you agree???

I like to call my machine Geraldine Lee......  It fits well with Gilbert Francis.......

[Kitsune]

Actually, accoring to the Christian Bible, you are alive in Hell but you are subjected to horrible torture. So, yes I stand by my nickanme for that detested machine that I hate, loathe and despise.

[Ken Shelmerdine]

I am on my second baxter. The first one was called Dave. This one's called strangley enough, Dave 2

[twirl]

Fang Face

[monrein]

I used to call my home hemo machine Little Leech or La Petite Sangsue which is the same thing in French.

[cherpep]

We call my NxStage machine "Mary".  It's short for Bloody Mary.

[lola]

Wall-E

[Kitsune]

Too bad it's not cute or friendly like Wall-E, huh?

[stauffenberg]

The center where I was dialyzed for a number of years had one young patient with a severe intellectual disability from Down's Syndrome.  At the end of each treatment session she used to kick her machine and shout, "Jerk," so I guess that was a kind of nickname for the machine for her.

[mikey07840]

As noted in my signature below: The little box of alarms

[Stacy Without An E]

I call mine the "Inglorious F***ing Bastard."  Yes, I call that to HIS face (yes, Dialysis machines are male...it's men who cause most of the trouble in the world)  He usually responds by having my needles burn until I beg for mercy.

On a side note, my friend the Greek Goddess has never said the D-word.  She calls the center PF...the Piss Factory.

If there was any American ingenuity left in this country, you'd think someone would come up with a way to turn that into a fuel of some sort and help with this green effort enveloping the nation.

[charee]

i can't print here what i call mine my friend said i was to harsh and she has named it Dr Hook !

[G-Ma]

oh noooo Ang.  I just read your beginning to this thread and instantly the song from Willie Wonka and the Choc Factory popped in...the ompas or whatever and now I know it will linger for days.

[flip]

I usually call mine Bloody Mary.

[G-Ma]

I've been thinking...R2D2.   I am not imaginative with names at all....however the """Drill Sargent""" in Charlotte said we cannot call it a Machine, and I hear whoever has trained in Charlotte knows who the DS is.        

[twirl]

this week it has been old F'er

[petey]

Marvin named his NxStage machine "Hercules" after the Greek hero who once cleaned a stable full of waste by diverting a river through it (washed out all the "stuff").  When we started home hemo, Marvin launched a "contest" among family and friends to name his machine, with all of them sending in suggestions.  My mom is the one who submitted the name "Hercules."  For "winning" the contest, my mom got to be Marvin's first visitor during a home treatment and the machine's middle name is her maiden name.  Marvin came up with the "prizes," and everybody made a great big game of it.  We are actually quite fond of Marvin's machine and speak of it affectionately.  When he was in-center, he never named the machine.

[G-Ma]

today it became Christine...locked up and would not let us change anything and kept showing 99 hours....after about 10 minutes of playing with buttons we called davita and said I wouldn't sit for 99 hours      and we finally got it...new machine next week...perfect alone run otherwise today.

[Trikkechickk]

After much consternation on what to name my machine, I came up w/"Mother Sucker".

[twirl]

After much consternation on what to name my machine, I came up w/"Mother Sucker".

good name

[oleboy]

My Baxter PD machine is known as Super Sucker or SS.