Ignorant things people have said to you

[zekewolfy]

The most ridiculous thing I have ever had someone say to me was from my own farther.

He asks.....

I know your on a machine to keep you alive, But how is your health?

my reply after much screaming.........I'm on a f*cking machine that beats me senseless and makes me sick three times a week and your asking about my health?

OH MAN!

[BigSky]

Only law enforcement officers are allowed to brandish weapons in public.  Simply because the officers are properly trained in the use or their firearms and they are the ones getting paid to up-hold public safety.

BS


Apply that to the First Amendment and just see how far that lead balloon flies.

"Limit free speech to only the Press as they are the ones properly trained in the use of free speech."



BTW law abiding citizens use firearms for protection of life and property many more times per day than the police do.

[angieskidney]

The most ridiculous thing I have ever had someone say to me was from my own farther.

He asks.....

I know your on a machine to keep you alive, But how is your health?

my reply after much screaming.........I'm on a f*cking machine that beats me senseless and makes me sick three times a week and your asking about my health?

OH MAN!

Ya some of the things people say .. but they are just curious but don't know the right questions to ask. I like that more than people who just jump and make assumptions about our health. Like the ones that say my dialysis is in the way of Christmas dinner and can't I just skip it as if I am the one putting them out! Heck THEY can do dialysis for me instead!  

[sandman]

The most ridiculous thing I have ever had someone say to me was from my own farther.

He asks.....

I know your on a machine to keep you alive, But how is your health?

my reply after much screaming.........I'm on a f*cking machine that beats me senseless and makes me sick three times a week and your asking about my health?

OH MAN!

I don't see that as an ignorant question.  More like an inaccurate question.

[tubes]

since there was mention of weapons and guns, i thought i would mention this.....
a law was past in ks that allows civilians to carry concealed firearms.  you have to take a training class and pay so much money before you are licensed.  i dont know if any other states have the same law.

anyways......

if i cramp real bad and complain a few nurses like to say...'you couldn't handle having a baby', then they do the breathing exercises in my face.  at first i didnt like it, but now i just joke along with em.

[Bear]

I know your on a machine to keep you alive, But how is your health?
OH MAN!

                       ...hmmmm. Funnily enough, those of us on the Home Haemo prog. at our hospital,
 have to fill in a questionnaire once every couple of months. One of those 'pick a number from 1-5' types,
 to give the level of yes/no answer. The question "do you consider yourself as healthy as the next person?"
 and a couple of similar ones is on there. Difficult to answer these with a "1" or even a "5" when you want
 to actually write a paragraph....
    If the "next person" is terminally ill, it's a "1"
    "   "     "      "          is on the national athletics squad, the answer is about "35"       

[AlasdairUK]

The most ridiculous thing I have ever had someone say to me was from my own farther.

He asks.....

I know your on a machine to keep you alive, But how is your health?

my reply after much screaming.........I'm on a f*cking machine that beats me senseless and makes me sick three times a week and your asking about my health?

OH MAN!

I don't see that as an ignorant question. More like an inaccurate question.

I think it is a fair question. I'm also on a machine, but my health is good. I have good energy levels and feel that I am able to be as active as everybody else in my office if not more so than some. As opposed to somebody who might have a chest line infection and is ill.

[jbeany]

I swear, by all that I've ever found holy, the next person who gives me a pitying look and says, "You're much too young to be this sick," is gonna get smacked.

[okarol]

When the photographer was at our house taking pictures for the news story, he asked Jenna:

"What do you think about when you are at the dialysis clinic?"

Jenna's reply "I try not to think at all."

He asks, "Well, do you ever meditate, or think about what you're going to do when you get off that day?"

Jenna said, "No. I will tell you what it's like, being at dialysis. It's like waiting for a bus."

[Joe Paul]

( me talking to myself) " To dialysis or not to dialysis, that my friend IS the question"

[kitkatz]

My mother has been around me since the beginning of dialysis eight years ago.  I cannot figure out why she says when I say I am tired and taking a nap: "Why are you so tired?"   Is she just a nitwit or just does not get it? I work as a teacher for eight hours a day, i then do four hours of dialysis on top of that for four hours each treatment and she has the balls to ask me why I am tired! WTF!!!
I am going to lose it all over her one day!  Lord, please help me!

[brenda]

This one couple we camp and fish with all summer got into a habit of asking me if I would mind picking up her groceries after I run home and dialyze. Ya, no problem, that's just what I feel like doing after dialysis. After about 4 times of saying, " ya, ok" (always the nice guy) I lost it! No I'm not going shopping at 8 or 9 at night before I come back out to camp! Get off your fat ass get in your own truck and go to town! Or maybe, plan a little better, geez.

[boxman55]

since there was mention of weapons and guns, i thought i would mention this.....
a law was past in ks that allows civilians to carry concealed firearms.  you have to take a training class and pay so much money before you are licensed.  i dont know if any other states have the same law.

There is only 3 states in the union that don't have that law. Wisconsin is one of them,and I am really pissed that they don't pass it.
A co worker knowing I am leaving for dialysis-"hope you have a nice night"




EDITED: Fixed Quote Tag Error - Sluff, Moderator

[kitkatz]

I show people my dialysis arm and they totally freak out.  Or the kid who asked: What happened to your arm?   I tell the kids I had surgery.  Adults just totally freak out over the look of the graft in the left arm. So now I wear longer sleeves. "What the hell happened?"  or "Gross."
It stops people dead in the water if they think dialysis patients have it easy. I just roll up the sleeve and let them look at it.  It is my badge of courage now.

[brenda]

I had kinda forgot about this until I talked to my one daughter earlier tonight. We used to live in the same neighborhood as a ex-famous, ex-WWF wrester. All our kids were around the same age and were friends. Their dad had a brother who was a dialysis patient but would go lay on the beach in the states for a week at a time and show up back at dialysis very ill. He'd stay for a couple of weeks until he felt a little better the off he'd go again skiing for a week or whatever. That went on for about a year and he eventually died. Jai came home one day sobbing. My friends mom says your going to die because your on dialysis. Some of the conversations "adults" had with my kids really pissed me off. You try so hard to educate them on what's going on. They all got really good at filtering through things people said. I had one parent want to know why I had "track" marks. Too many mom's in that neighborhood had nothing better to do but shit like that.

[kitkatz]

The neighborhood kids walked up to me as I was getting out of my car and asked me if I had AIDS/HIV. I had a bandage on my arm and looked like hell. I told them no, I had kidney failure and was on dialysis.  I don't think they believed me. They never talk to me.

[renal30yrs]

I would say just "**** them all".  They'll face their day of reckoning one day and may or may not regret their deeds.

[mrhecht]

What REALLY gets to me is not the ignorant questions of strangers or acquaintances (at least, not anymore) but the REPEATED stupid questions of family and good friends. Example: Me arriving at family whatever (insert birthday or holiday) get together:
My Dad, as I walk in the door, "What can I get you to drink.?"
Me, "Nothing, right now. I'll have something with dinner."
Dad, "Don't you want a glass of wine or a beer?"
Me, "No, I'll have something with dinner."
Step-mom, "We have water."
Me, "No, thanks."
Dad & Step-mom together in harmony, "Can you have some soda or juice?"
Me, (taking out my concealed weapon for which I do not have a permit and pointing it at their surprised faces...) "IT'S QUANTITY NOT QUALITY AS I'VE TOLD YOU FOR THE LAST FREAKIN' 17 YEARS!)

Then we have the conversation about how they didn't put any salt in the ham that they're serving for dinner....did I mention my Dad is supposed to be on a low salt diet for his heart.....so, yeah right, good choice...no added salt in the ham...thanks.

[jbeany]

Ah, good family times!   

I asked for a small glass of water at the last family gathering.  My dad asked me if I wanted a shot glass, or something bigger.  Ah, well, at least he remembers that I'm fluid restricted!

[okarol]

My mother has been around me since the beginning of dialysis eight years ago.  I cannot figure out why she says when I say I am tired and taking a nap: "Why are you so tired?"   Is she just a nitwit or just does not get it? I work as a teacher for eight hours a day, i then do four hours of dialysis on top of that for four hours each treatment and she has the balls to ask me why I am tired! WTF!!!
I am going to lose it all over her one day!  Lord, please help me!

Well, after all, you have a light workday, not like you're digging ditches or anything. Then you just sit around in a chair at dialysis. Come on Kit, buck up!

[kitkatz]

LOL

[MJB]

A Nurse once asked me how do you pee without kidney's??? I told her through my finger. She gave me a strange look and left, thank God!!! I thought she was kidding.

[angieskidney]

A Nurse once asked me how do you pee without kidney's??? I told her through my finger. She gave me a strange look and left, thank God!!! I thought she was kidding.

A nurse? I thought any nurse would know you can't without kidneys 

Of course one time I was told that I HAD to have a FULL bladder for some test after my kidney stopped producing anything .. and she kept arguing with me that I couldn't go for the test even though it was my Nephrologist who scheduled it (I think he would know I would not be coming in with a full bladder  )

[Wattle]

You guys are so funny!

I thought all the morons were attracted to just me. I think I have heard all of the above. Although my GP (local doctor) asked me if they transplant one or two kidneys. O.k that may sound reasonable..... but I was being worked up for a LIVE donation transplant! You would think she would know the answer!  aahhhhhhh

[mrhecht]

Sometimes I wonder where/how some nurses get licensed. The nurse at my ob/gyn sees me every year and always ask me very nicely, with a kind of sad puppy look, if I'm still on dialysis, "Yes" I say; then she hands me the cup and points to the restroom and says "Just bring it up to the front when you're done." I'm often tempted to pour some Mountain Dew in there and turn it in.