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« Reply #100 on: October 21, 2011, 01:03:15 AM »
Quote from: Tabbygirl on August 10, 2010, 05:50:19 PM
...your favorite saying is that you have to hurry home to "hook up" (to pd that is!)

That was always my excuse to get out of a particularly boring outing.. I don't have that excuse anymore
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« Reply #101 on: December 10, 2012, 01:42:44 PM »
You know dialysis is taking over your life when...

You dread Fridays.

Somebody is asking what you're doing over the weekend and you have to reply with "dialysis".

You walk up to the Fresinius booth at the Hospital Fair and ask what they can tell you that you don't already know.

You join iHateDialysis.com :D

You want to kill your doctor if he mentions your fluid gains one more time.

You refuse to go to Golden Coral...
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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 #102 on: December 10, 2012, 09:14:02 PM »
The sight of your own blood spurting on the floor (or on a nurse) makes you laugh
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« Reply #103 on: January 17, 2013, 09:49:53 AM »
My Life as it is now......Sucks big time  :stressed;

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Quote from: MelissaJean on September 23, 2006, 04:34:12 PM
You know dialysis is taking over your life when some days it feels like all you do is go to work, sleep, eat, and do dialysis.  :(
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2011 Diagnosed with End stage renal Failure (Formal diagnosis Alport's Syndrome) at the age of 21
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September 2012 - In center hemodialysis since late 2012 3X a week 4 hours late evening 3rd shift
I'm still here!!  Alive and kicking ass. :-)
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« Reply #104 on: January 17, 2013, 10:21:19 AM »

You know dialysis has taken over your life when you fall asleep before they get the needles in.

     :waiting;
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« Reply #105 on: January 17, 2013, 11:30:03 AM »
Quote from: Rerun on January 17, 2013, 10:21:19 AM

You know dialysis has taken over your life when you fall asleep before they get the needles in.

     :waiting;

That happened to a guy in my unit.. the nurses were busy so one of the resident care workers got his weight, temp, and blood pressure, then put him in the chair with a warm blanket.  He fell asleep, but had his arm out, waiting.  Half an hour later, someone noticed that he wasn't hooked up.
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« Reply #106 on: December 06, 2013, 04:47:35 PM »
When you hardly know asks "how are you doing?", you immediately wonder "does he know?".
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