Ignorant things people have said to you

[BigSteve]

Brightsky: I can only talk about my old unit. I'm just starting PD now. The unit has a waiting room with
a door to the actual unit. You press a button and get buzzed in. They seem to let anyone in without screening.
However the unit is in a large office complex of four multi-story buildings near the Long Beach, CA airport.

[thegrammalady]

my unit is locked. however sometimes they prop the door open and sometimes buzz you in without looking to see who is there. after 8am there is a receptionist that handles the door

[Razman]

Today another worker said  " are you on a crazy diet, you never eat anything " .
I wish I could have all the chocolate and potato chips and coke and everything else but I want to live, I'm not crazy.

[502Blues]

Does your penis still work?  I say its my kidneys that dont work not my %$#@
I thought you already had dialysis? as if you go to dialysis one time and youre cured

[Kitsune]

The worst one came from our center's social worker, who has access to all the patients' records. A few months ago, I was taking a couple of sips of water from the water fountain (What a water fountain is doing in a dialysis center that won't have an ice machine because they think that patients would abuse ice chips that would have to be brought to them by staff anyway I will never know.) and she said, "Be careful! You'll get fluid overloaded if you drink too much water!!" This to a person with no fluid or food restriction. It's like, "Get a clue, lady. I know my own restrictions and I have none. You'd know too if you spent your time  reading the charts and doing your job getting to know the patients instead of passing out handouts that you've passed out 100 times and passing out bingo prizes to people who only play bingo to pass the time in this nauseating place who really don't want slipper socks or whatever you found at the dollar store this week."

Man, what a clueless ditz.

[twirl]

my nep doc was on rounds and he asked me if I needed anything
I said a kidney
he said maybe an Aggie would donate a kidney to me and they would have a better football season
I wish Flipbob could comment on this one

[jbeany]

Maybe he meant the donation would give them better karma? 

[502Blues]

my nep doc was on rounds and he asked me if I needed anything
I said a kidney
he said maybe an Aggie would donate a kidney to me and they would have a better football season
I wish Flipbob could comment on this one

Thats my favorite answer too

[TynyWonder]

my nep doc was on rounds and he asked me if I needed anything
I said a kidney
he said maybe an Aggie would donate a kidney to me and they would have a better football season
I wish Flipbob could comment on this one

    that was an awful thing to say coming from a doctor!

[Sunny]

Doctors don't always say the best things.
Once my nephrologist at Sanford told me, "With luck, I'd probably die of something else, and not kidney disease."
I know he meant well, but it was a little startling.

[BigSteve]

"Doctors don't always say the best things.
Once my nephrologist at Sanford told me, "With luck, I'd probably die of something else, and not kidney disease."
I know he meant well, but it was a little startling."

This is a long thread, but I'll nominate that quote by Sunny as the most ignorant thing ever said.

[lola]

Today at work we were talking about Thanksgiving and I said how great it was to have Otto feeling half way decent and watch him eat, but it was because he skipped D for the day. The next thing I know one of our newer drivers lays into me about him "skipping" and how bad that is, so I asked him if he knew anybody on D and he said "only Otto", 1st I told him how he did not "know" Otto 2nd when he needs D someday and see's what it's like to be hooked up to a machine 5 days a week only to feel like complete sh@# and feel as if someone is beating your head in with a baseball bat because you get a fever with every D then he and I can talk about how bad it is to skip 1 session so you can have a nice Thanks giving with family.

[cherpep]

BRAVO!

[Kitsune]

Today at work we were talking about Thanksgiving and I said how great it was to have Otto feeling half way decent and watch him eat, but it was because he skipped D for the day. The next thing I know one of our newer drivers lays into me about him "skipping" and how bad that is, so I asked him if he knew anybody on D and he said "only Otto", 1st I told him how he did not "know" Otto 2nd when he needs D someday and see's what it's like to be hooked up to a machine 5 days a week only to feel like complete sh@# and feel as if someone is beating your head in with a baseball bat because you get a fever with every D then he and I can talk about how bad it is to skip 1 session so you can have a nice Thanks giving with family.

Oh, but we dialysis patients are to be perfectly compliant at all times or we are "bad children", didn't you know that?

[karen547]

Or how about when youre coughing up a lung and have a BAD cold and people say you should still go to dialysis...... rightttt. That wont make things worse!~ lol

[glitter]

Or how about when youre coughing up a lung and have a BAD cold and people say you should still go to dialysis...... rightttt. That wont make things worse!~ lol

  thats fortunate, my husband has to go even if the puke is streaming from his nose.

[Budluv]

I'm skinny as hell and have the "tracks" on my arm from all the needles.. I've been asked more than once if I knew where to score meth.
I just smile and say "From a drug dealer, silly"  most people don't have enough brains to pour piss out of a boot.  Don't let it get ya down.
Oh BTW.. I was wondering.. Wouldn't eating kidney beans keep you from having to dialyize?  *snort bwa ha ha ha*   Ahhh People.

                       Smiles and Hugs  (if your a guy it would be one of those shoulder gangsta hugs - Don't want to feel creepy)
                       
Sincerely  Mike L

[kellyt]

Knuckle love!    Kinda like this  , but without the beers.

[Jess21]

What happened to your arm?!?  I'm tired of this question and the awkward silence with my answer of dialysis.  I think I'll come up with a new answer.
Attacked by angry emu.  hehe.

[kitkatz]

SHARK BITE!

[jbeany]

Yup, that's mine.  I give them a serious look and say a freshwater shark got me while I was in Lake Michigan.  Hehehehehehhe

[mikey07840]

I have a scar that is about 24 inches on my abdomen in a nice V shape. I tell people it was an attack from a land shark. (Really from the cancer.)

[twirl]

Mikey
land shark - that is funny---- did you ever see Jabber Jaws

[Kitsune]

I was in an FYE store one day buying a Kotipelto CD right after I had first started D and I saw this little girl look at my arm and whisper to an older woman next to her, "What's wrong with that lady's arm?" and the older woman says to the little girl, "Oh, that lady probably is a junkie, you know someone that shoots drugs into her arn?" Well, I looked over again and said loudly to the woman, "No, I am on dialysis. However, you can change that. Wanna donate a kidney?" Well,that woman turned the color of V8 juice knowing that her nasty, presumptous remark had been heard and that I'd owned her completely in front of her daughter, and she walked out without buying a thing. I didn't see her in the mall for the rest of the day.

I should have borrowed Kitkatz's  for the day. Maybe next time.

[twirl]

good one