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« on: July 30, 2007, 03:33:55 PM »

I have a teach who's been working down on my floor, lets call her June.  She's just really obnoxious and lazy, very lax about things and is always talking about her sex life and her man.  A few weeks ago she asked me how my ex was in bed............she's really into horoscopes and analyzes people all the time according to their birth sign.  Okay fine if you're into that.  I don't need you to analyze ME!
anywhoooo.......on Saturday she was helping get me off the machine.  She was complaining that her stomach hurt her so I suggested she go have some hot mint tea which we have in the waiting room area.  I don't remember exactly how it started but she made a remark like "thank God I'm not sick like you".  So I (having had enough of her BS remarks) said really loud to her "well, aren't you happy you're not like me and the rest of us here?  Good for you!" 

What should I have said???  I hate that I didn't think of something better to say to her!!!   :banghead; :banghead;

Donna   :bandance;


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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 06:03:57 PM »

I would've scared the shit out of her and told her something like "oh, your turn is coming  i read it in MY cards so you better watch your back" (bitch) :P ;)   >:D 
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2007, 07:42:09 PM »

Ooooh! I would have had to fight very hard to keep myself from strangling that little F***er with my bloodlines and stabbing her in the eye with my needles. Seriously, people like that should NEVER be allowed to keep a job in the medical field. Rant and curse all you want. The bitch deserves it

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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2007, 08:13:12 PM »

"And here I was thankful I wasn't a whiny b**** like you. .. "

"Me, too.  You already make us miserable just working here.  I can't imagine how miserable you'd make the rest of the patients if you had to sit here with us."

Well, I'd never say it - but I'd think it!
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2007, 01:30:53 AM »

What a rude b*tch. 

If she continues to be invasive with her casual comments or rude about your illness,speak to the clinical manager or
charge nurse at your unit.  You don't deserve to hear that crap.  Personality is an important part of a dialysis staff member.
She needs to be spoken to so she knows that what she is doing and saying is offensive.    :boxing;
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2007, 02:51:04 AM »

I am sure this idiot found what she said to be helpful. I have a similar idiot at my center. She never understands the pain we go through. She thinks she has gone through more. Sometimes i wonder how these morons walk in the door. I guess they think, "Gee today seems like a good day to mess with a dialysis patient." I won't let this tech near me and just the other day made it known to the charge nurse. There must be some kind of morbid sense of humor in a person with such power over a patient.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2007, 07:39:32 AM »

oh god... what a cow! i would of slapped the B$#@ out!  :boxing;
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2007, 03:36:41 PM »

You can borrow my Big Stick and beat her over the head with it! 
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2007, 05:12:16 PM »

what you said was just fine. saying something was good. I have a tech all she talks about is her diabetes so she knows what we are going through. She infiltrated me once and that was the end of her...Boxman PS if I told you what I said Sluff would cut me off.. :rant; :rant; :rant;
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« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2007, 08:49:53 AM »

Having had both the worst form of diabetes, type 1, plus having been on dialysis from 1996 to 2003, I can say that since dialysis is about 10 times worse than diabetes, you can't know what someone on dialysis is going through just by having diabetes.
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« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2007, 08:52:21 PM »

your right Stauffenberg, but she thinks she does. and I am both a diabetic and ESRD patient also I just pray every treatment day she is not assigned to my pod  Boxman...
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« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2007, 08:00:03 AM »

WOW! I feel blessed to be in a unit where we all get on well and it's like a kind of extended family and there's no bitchiness (well not to me anyway?! maybe after I've gone they make rude comments lol) or anything.

I think I would have just said something like "look this sort of stuff isn't appropriate.. if you can't say anything nice..." and yeah I'd have a word with the unit supervisor/charge nurse etc. Unbelieveable what she said. sigh!
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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2007, 12:06:42 PM »

This is really simple - Punch the tech in the mouth, then complain the tech hurt your fist.

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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2007, 03:06:11 PM »

This is really simple - Punch the tech in the mouth, then complain the tech hurt your fist.




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« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2007, 03:19:26 PM »

I would wait till the next time you go there, make sure you come up with something to say, and punch her in the mouth. If she doesn't fall down, make her fall. When all is said and done, make a story about how she threatened your life and how she has control over you, and tell the police. She'll be fired and she'll be very mad.   :secret; :boxing; :boxing; >:(
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« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2008, 07:23:04 PM »

borrow one of her needles and tell her to bend over :shy;
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« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2008, 07:37:27 PM »

 In a cool calm voice just say,  may God bless you and forgive you, because someday I may get a kidney but they will never give you a new face. and just walk away.
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« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2008, 09:24:49 PM »

Why is the Scarecrow's song from the Wizard of Oz running through my head right now? "If I only had a brain..."
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« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2008, 09:47:35 PM »

How about an update of this tech. Is she fired yet?
Makes me thankful I had gone to a good unit, although I did start out with a shitty unit for a month or 2. Hated that unit and the doctor who owns it.
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« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2008, 01:18:38 PM »

Coming in late on this one.  It is horrible that patients should have to endure people like that caring for them.

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« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2008, 11:19:09 PM »

As a Dialysis patient you do have one weapon at your disposal: you suddenly let your bandages slip at the end of treatment and bleed all over her.  Try to get some in her eye.  Then mention the antibiotics you've been on for this terrible, itchy rash you can't seem to get rid of.

She'll never speak or come near you again.
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« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2008, 04:33:03 AM »

your comments are fun to read    ;D ;D
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« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2008, 12:59:08 PM »

As a Dialysis patient you do have one weapon at your disposal: you suddenly let your bandages slip at the end of treatment and bleed all over her.  Try to get some in her eye.  Then mention the antibiotics you've been on for this terrible, itchy rash you can't seem to get rid of.

She'll never speak or come near you again.
I like your thinking  :rofl;
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
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« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2008, 02:41:07 PM »

As a Dialysis patient you do have one weapon at your disposal: you suddenly let your bandages slip at the end of treatment and bleed all over her.  Try to get some in her eye.  Then mention the antibiotics you've been on for this terrible, itchy rash you can't seem to get rid of.

She'll never speak or come near you again.

I love the way you think, Stacy!  :rofl;  :rofl;  :clap;
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« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2008, 09:45:43 AM »

I hada tech like dat so i was just as bad and i pissed her off she went to da (DON) director of nursing on and i told da don after a few weeks da tech came and said she was sorry and every since we have been cool but you have to be da judge her for ur self
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