Goodbye Duh-Vita

[Brightsky69]

It all makes sence now.....I had put in a request to move to another Davita unit and they kept putting me and putting me off. I have private insurence....no wonder they didn't want to let me go.

[dialysisbiller]

cha----------ching...... centers get selfish over that stuff

what that center brings in for revenue is how they base their budget on a center level not company wide

[rose1999]

I was rereading this thread and I wondered why did I ask if people eat emus?

Twirl the first message was edited in January - maybe it said something about emus before it was edited?  Or maybe you are just going mad 

[hurlock1]

I am at a Fresenius facility and the caregivers are exceptional, the facility is clean and we DO have TVs with a computer that also has games. We have the old chairs, but there's been talk of new chairs among the caregivers. I haven't asked about them because I haven't wanted to get my hopes up. I'm sure that the chairs, at one time were excellent and comfortable; and I'm sure that they have served their purpose well. But I am looking forward to any change in the center for the better. I just thank God that I have been blessed with care at all, and that the care that I'm given is the best.

[Wallyz]

If you're not dialysing every day, you are not receiving the best care. 4x3 is killing you, and the rest of the people in the unit.

[G-Ma]

Wallyz I know you didn't mean that like it sounded...........   Many of us cannot do home hemo or nocturnal for whatever reason....so we attempt to feel good in center and if it's a clean, updated, friendly center that makes us happy, thank you God.  Please don't tell us we are killing ourselves by going there         I really like to think that if I feel good enough to do some of the things each day that I enjoy doing I'm doing alright.  Today I potted several plants until I ran out of dirt so have to get more and soon I will have my plants all taken care of and can start another project that may take awhile due to this kidney game.  Sorry but that post just hit me wrong.   

[kitkatz]

It is all according to how you are feeling while on dialysis. I managed to do ten years at 3 days a week for 4 hours. But when I began to feel I was going downhill I made the change to nocturnal.  I would have changed something else if I could not have made the move to longer time. It is all in how YOU handle your treatments and your protocols.

[Wallyz]

G-ma, I understand what you are saying, but I don't want you to feel like you are getting the best treatment you can by doing 3x4.  Ask for a fourth day.  Push for nocturnal.  Try to get home.  The mortality rate for people doing daily home hemo is 50% lower than people in center.

[hurlock1]

I thought that I had replied to this post. But checking to see, I suppose that I didn't. I just wanted to say that I am at a Fresenius center and the caregivers are really nice there are TVs with an internet connection and games, which are (For me) a real lifesaver at the end of a 5 hr. run. I've only been to this one center for care and have been thinking that I had it bad, but after hearing some of the horror stories, I thank God for the clinic that I have and hope that it keeps me alive long enough for me to start enjoying it.

[hurlock1]

Sorry for the double posts, I didn't realize that there were 2 pages