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Razman
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« on: August 31, 2008, 06:40:57 PM »

14 Signs Your HMO is Cheap

1. Pedal-powered dialysis machines.
2. Use of antibiotics deemed an “unauthorized experimental procedure.”
3. Head-wound victim in the waiting room is on the last chapter of “War and Peace,”
4. You ask for Viagra. You get a popsicle stick and duct tape.
5. Annual breast exam conducted at Hooters.
6. Exam room has a tip jar.
7. You swear you saw salad tongs and a crab fork on the instrument tray just before the anesthesia kicked in.
8. Tight budget prevents acquisition of separate rectal thermometers.
9. Chief Surgeon graduated from University of Benihana.
10. Directions to your doctor’s office include, “take a left when you enter the trailer park,”
11. Doctor listens to your heart through a paper towel tube.
12. Plan covers only “group” gynecological exams.
13. Recycled bandages.
14. You can get your flu shot as soon as “the” hypodermic needle is dry.
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peleroja
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I have 16 hats, all the same style!

« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 06:45:51 PM »

Those are hysterical, but I positively loved the first one!
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 06:58:40 PM »

 :rofl;
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As for me, I'll borrow this thought: "Having never experienced kidney disease, I had no idea how crucial kidney function is to the rest of the body." - KD
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« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2008, 04:03:48 PM »

# 5 is done by Dr.Sluff :rofl;

they count the ice chips
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« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2008, 12:05:00 PM »

When they take your weight and BP they write it down using Quills and Ink.
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I can fly!!!

« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2008, 03:54:52 PM »

 :rofl; :rofl;
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« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2008, 05:27:58 PM »

When they take your weight and BP they write it down using Quills and Ink.

that is funny
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Might as well smile

« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2008, 05:39:08 PM »

I have a confession to make!!  I don't use quills and ink but I do use a fountain pen with ink although I sometimes use cartridges of ink instead of bottled ink.  I have 4 beauties and my best one is an Italian hand-made pen that took 6 months to craft.  It was a gift from my husband on our 25th anniversary  (quite a few years ago now). 


Cheap HMO...doesn't do single use, doesn't do reuse....hands out the supplies and it's make-your-own all the way, all the time.  OOH look, mine's not leaking today.  Yippee.
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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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