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« on: April 14, 2008, 07:10:29 AM »

My face looks decidedly 'yellow' today ..anyone else ?
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2008, 08:03:29 AM »

I'm a bit red. It was a beautiful, sunny weekend.
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2008, 08:18:49 AM »

A 'game' played by cruel medical students is to try to guess which patients waiting in a clinic have renal disease on the basis of their distinctive skin color, which has been described as varying between tan and muddy green.  I find it is much worse in patients who have had a failed transplant and returned to dialysis, although this may just indirectly measure the patients who have had renal disease longer.  I used to be perfectly white, even too pale, but recently one of my friends commented that it wasn't like me to be visiting a tanning studio -- but of course I hadn't!
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2008, 08:24:30 AM »

Sun tan.
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2008, 08:27:06 AM »

people tell me I look healthy I guess it is because of the somewhat tan look I have...Boxman
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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 08:55:52 AM »

tan

it's that dialysis after glow :shy;
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2008, 10:02:26 AM »

GREEN with envy I just wish I had a tan :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2008, 02:03:17 PM »

Tan? What in the he** is tan? I'm white year round!
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« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2008, 02:34:46 PM »

well the vitamin D I was on gave me a tanned glow.
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« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2008, 02:49:34 PM »

I always have a tan ruddy looking face. I think it reflects my kidney disease. Sometimes my lips are even blue.
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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2008, 02:50:51 PM »

 Before I had my first transplant I was yellowish at times and grey at times.  Now that I'm facing dialysis again maybe I'll be green this time around. Wow, always something to look forward to. At the moment I'm quite white and washed out looking but I cover it with makeup.  Faking it as long as I can.
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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2008, 03:44:14 PM »

maybe I'll be green this time around     ( don't know how to get a partial quote)

you will be pretty no matter what color you turn
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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2008, 03:52:40 PM »

maybe I'll be green this time around     ( don't know how to get a partial quote)

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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2008, 03:54:09 PM »

 :thx; :thx; :thx;  Not everyone can appreciate the charms of being green (or swollen or whatever).  Thank goodness we have each other.
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2008, 03:59:13 PM »

maybe I'll be green this time around     ( don't know how to get a partial quote)

    is this right and thank you     should it be purple    purple is pretty
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« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2008, 04:02:41 PM »

another reason to love dialysis
we turn tan without paying for a tanning booth or baking in the sun
look at the tanning money we are saving
we are the lucky ones
like being on a vacation ::)
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« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2008, 12:29:01 PM »

That's funny.  Just yesterday my sister-in-law took me to the dialyskis clinic
for my monthly appt. and after we left she said did you notice the lady I was talking to had
the oddest color of skin.  I said no I didn't notice who she was talking to, was she a patient?
She said yes. 
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« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2008, 03:03:16 PM »

Not long ago, I told Beth that I just felt like I looked yellow.  I thought maybe I just needed to get some sun, but I guess this is just another side effect.  When I look at recent pictures vs. 2 years ago, I can tell my skin tone has changed.   So many things they don't tell you about!
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« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2008, 03:30:37 AM »

I fall into the yellow category. I wish I had the dialysis after glow. 
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« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2008, 09:49:32 AM »

I'm Maybelline Fair, with a sheer bronze blush!

Seriously, I'm mostly just pale.  I don't tan well.  I was a bit yellowy before I started dialysis, but that's cleared up now that I'm on home hemo.
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