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« Reply #25 on: March 28, 2007, 03:04:17 PM »
Quote from: okarol on March 27, 2007, 01:05:29 PM
You hold your breath in while weighing in, hoping it will levitate you slightly.
Someone has been spying on me!!!
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« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2007, 03:18:17 PM »
Oh gosh. you pp; on here are so CrAzY! im almost on the verge of tears. ok i got one

...when most of your vacations are WEEKEND GETAWAYS! 

Quote from: LifeOnHold on August 12, 2005, 09:15:14 PM
You know dialysis is taking over your life when:

You don't see a plain-old banana-- you see a loaded pistol!

The produce section of your local grocery store becomes like a red-light district for you

Commercials featuring flowing streams and rushing waters no longer make you feel like you have to pee, they make you THIRSTY!

You hope whoever came up with any of the flavors of Tums dies a long and painful death

You realize that dialysis is just like the Army: You're part of a unit, and 'hurry up and wait' is now a large part of your life

You have a voodoo doll of your cab or van driver

You now know that those large styrofoam cups in the unit are NOT for snow-cones!

You have learned to dread it when the nurses roll out the 'privacy screens' around an often-incontinent patient

You now understand how disagreements over tv channels can lead to violence

You quit hoping you'll win the lottery because you realize that it will screw up your Medicare

You refuse to have a recliner in your home

You have learned to do many things with one hand

You have a large collection of Readers' Digest issues, crossword puzzle and find-a-word books, and tons of ballpoint pens

You don't know what you weigh in pounds

If you get anything over 30 seconds with your doctor, you think you've hit the jackpot



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Feel free to add to the list!
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« Reply #27 on: November 02, 2007, 09:52:25 PM »
Quote from: myricle child on November 02, 2007, 03:18:17 PM
Oh gosh. you pp; on here are so CrAzY! im almost on the verge of tears. ok i got one

...when most of your vacations are WEEKEND GETAWAYS! 

Surely you mean ALL!! 
This is now 2 years on dialysis, and the only vacations others than weekend getaways are when I go to my home country, and the price of dialysis there means I only stay about a week or so.
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« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2007, 09:51:06 PM »
when your diet mantra is "If it tastes good don't eat it!"
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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
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« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2007, 11:45:30 AM »
You dream about urinating.

You check out the size of other people's fistula's.
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« Reply #30 on: November 28, 2007, 10:47:11 AM »
You log onto the computer "just to check email" and you end up spending 2 hours on IHD.
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« Reply #31 on: November 28, 2007, 09:46:56 PM »
That is the one that gets me every time!
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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
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« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2007, 08:58:08 AM »
When you consider bringing your own La-Z-boy recliner on your dialysis days. 

When  you plan any event in your life around it.  "No, I can't go with you to a spur of the moment trip to Vegas.  I haven't cleared it with my center!!"

When you start knowing more about your nurses and technicians than you know about some of the non-dialysis people in your life.
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« Reply #33 on: December 04, 2007, 01:29:53 AM »
You wake up (late) on an off dialysis day, then run around to get ready to go - when almost ready, realize its TUESDAY not WEDNESDAY.  :banghead;
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« Reply #34 on: December 14, 2007, 01:49:41 PM »
You accidentally say have a good treatment to a non dialysis patient rather than saying have a good day/night!
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« Reply #35 on: May 19, 2009, 06:20:10 AM »
 :bump;  Bumping this thread up for the new peeps to see.
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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
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« Reply #36 on: May 19, 2009, 11:09:12 AM »
When my youngest son calls and says "How was your run today?"......well, we know it wasn't on any trails.   :rofl;
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ESRD diagnosed 12/2006
03/2007 Fantastic Eye Surgeon in ND got my sight back and implanted lenses in both eyes, great distance & low reading.
Gortex 4/07.  Started dialysis in ND 5/4/2007
Gortex clotted off Thanksgiving Week of 2007, was unclotted and promptly clotted off 1/2 hour later so Permacath Rt chest.
3/2008 move to NC to be close to children.
2 Step fistula, 05/08-elevated 06/08, using mid August.
Aug 5, 08, trained NxStage and Home on 9/3/2008.
Fistulagram 09/2008. In hospital 10/30/08, Bowel Obstruction.
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« Reply #37 on: May 21, 2009, 05:33:10 PM »
Quote from: kitkatz on May 19, 2009, 06:20:10 AM
:bump;  Bumping this thread up for the new peeps to see.

You've been grave-digging.  ;D

Interesting though and I wouldn't have read it if you hadn't dug it up.
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Diagnosed stage 3 CKD May 2003
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« Reply #38 on: May 23, 2009, 08:00:23 PM »
When the hubby turns to me at 4a.m. in the car and says "Well how was IT?"  And we know IT was not sex.
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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
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« Reply #39 on: May 24, 2009, 02:42:35 PM »
Quote from: kitkatz on May 23, 2009, 08:00:23 PM
When the hubby turns to me at 4a.m. in the car and says "Well how was IT?"  And we know IT was not sex.

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EDITED:Fixed spelling errors in my quote-kitkatz,Moderator
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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« Reply #40 on: June 27, 2009, 07:34:42 AM »
A conversation between my husband and me:

Me: How did that feel?

Him: It was great.

Me: It felt good to me, too.

Topic?
Sticking the needles in his arm.
Has dialysis taken over our lives??
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« Reply #41 on: June 27, 2009, 07:56:46 AM »
Now this one was funny...

Mine is:  When you set up a blind date with your nurse and your buddy next door...
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« Reply #42 on: June 27, 2009, 08:55:46 AM »
when it is like you are back in college
M day classes  -- M W F
M day treatments  M W F
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Getting the heck out of town.
« Reply #43 on: June 27, 2009, 09:30:52 AM »
When you walk in the lobby area and forget it you are leaving dialysis or waiting for you turn.
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Come to think of it, nothing is funny anymore.

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« Reply #44 on: July 26, 2009, 05:40:57 AM »
when trying on a blouse -- you ask --"Does this make my fistula look big?"
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« Reply #45 on: July 26, 2009, 05:42:48 AM »
Quote from: twirl on July 26, 2009, 05:40:57 AM
when trying on a blouse -- you ask --"Does this make my fistula look big?"

         :rofl;  :rofl;  :rofl;
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« Reply #46 on: July 26, 2009, 12:27:46 PM »
when trying on a blouse you ask: "Is this sleeve too tight?" on the fistula/graft arm.
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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
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« Reply #47 on: July 26, 2009, 09:46:40 PM »
When you look in your closet for something to wear and all you have are dialysis clothes.
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« Reply #48 on: July 28, 2009, 10:06:59 PM »
your closet is split into two types of clothing, the most comfortable ugly things you own and wear to dialysis three days a week, and the rest of it.
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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
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« Reply #49 on: August 11, 2009, 01:57:01 PM »

                 
You always keep several 
get well cards on the mantle.
That way, when unexpected guests arrive, 
they will know you've been sick 
and will be unable to clean up after them.
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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