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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: WishIKnew on February 25, 2011, 06:37:33 AM

Title: get creative - BEING ON DIALYSIS IS LIKE...
Post by: WishIKnew on February 25, 2011, 06:37:33 AM
I'm snowed in and bored so let's get creative - What good similes can we come up with?  I'll start.

Being on dialysis is like being put on hold and listening to the same muszak over and over and over and over.....

Being on dialysis is like flying away on a great vacation but just circling above airport and never landing at your destination.  You're on your way to somewhere you want to be but you don't know when you'll land and you may run out of fuel while you're waiting.
Title: Re: get creative - BEING ON DIALYSIS IS LIKE...
Post by: paul.karen on February 25, 2011, 07:48:02 AM
Being on dialysis is like a recurring nightmare.  The ending never changes yet it comes night after night after night.
Title: Re: get creative - BEING ON DIALYSIS IS LIKE...
Post by: chook on March 05, 2011, 08:39:27 AM
Being on dialysis is something that always comes as a shock, even if you've been expecting it to happen for years.
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Post by: rsudock on March 05, 2011, 08:54:32 AM
Being on dialysis is like when you are really starving for a particular type of food and you are really really craving it. Well you go in for the first mouth watering bite and you drop your fork on the ground! What a disappointment!!!

xo,
R
Title: Re: get creative - BEING ON DIALYSIS IS LIKE...
Post by: Henry P Snicklesnorter on March 05, 2011, 09:42:46 AM
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Post by: peleroja on March 05, 2011, 12:35:02 PM
Being on dialysis is like having your spine pulled out through the top of your head.  And I'm not even to the hard part yet with the needles, still have a permacath.
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Post by: Stoday on March 05, 2011, 06:21:17 PM
Being on dialysis is like a 1960's horror film.

The most horrible thing they could think of was Dracula, the vampire. Sucking blood of his victims was the epitomy of horror.

Now my blood is sucked three times a week by an electromechanical vampire. And I have the tooth marks in my arm to show for it. And it lasts for four hours a time.  :stressed;
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Post by: galvo on March 05, 2011, 09:19:02 PM
Being on dialysis is like sitting in God's waiting room attached to a machine.
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Post by: okarol on March 06, 2011, 02:34:52 AM
Jenna said - being on dialysis is like waiting for a bus.
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Post by: kamar55 on March 06, 2011, 04:20:40 AM
Jenna said - being on dialysis is like waiting for a bus.

I agree and when the dialysis session is over you feel like you've been run over by a bus...
Title: Re: get creative - BEING ON DIALYSIS IS LIKE...
Post by: kamar55 on March 06, 2011, 04:22:04 AM
Being on dialysis is like a 1960's horror film.

The most horrible thing they could think of was Dracula, the vampire. Sucking blood of his victims was the epitomy of horror.

Now my blood is sucked three times a week by an electromechanical vampire. And I have the tooth marks in my arm to show for it. And it lasts for four hours a time.  :stressed;

LOL  perfect way to put it  :rofl;
Title: Re: get creative - BEING ON DIALYSIS IS LIKE...
Post by: sammiejo23 on March 06, 2011, 06:50:37 AM
Being on dialysis is like the itch you can't scratch. You know you have it, but can't do a damn thing about it!
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Post by: Hazmat35 on March 06, 2011, 08:44:37 AM
. . . is like having one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave!    :sarcasm; 

And by the way, who gave you permission to eat that BANANA!!!!!!!  LOTS OF POTASSIUM!!!!  Take you binder! 
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Post by: FindingNeverland on March 06, 2011, 01:42:39 PM
Being on dialysis is like watching reruns of a television show you absolutely hate.

Being on dialysis is like hearing the same song played over and over again.

Being on dialysis is like being caught in a revolving door, you want to leave for good but you find yourself coming back.

Being on dialysis is like tethered swimming, you can kick and flail about all you want but you're still stuck there.
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Post by: iketchum on March 06, 2011, 04:19:40 PM
Being on dialysis is like being a pin cushion three days a week.
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Post by: chook on March 06, 2011, 04:24:28 PM
Being on dialysis is like being in a fridge for 4 hours.Brrr!  But a fridge with music, thanks to my iPOD.
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Post by: Tracy on March 07, 2011, 07:40:29 AM
Being on Dialysis i like having forced tv time 3 times a week.
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Post by: Brightsky69 on March 07, 2011, 12:59:47 PM
Being on dialysis is like being in limbo.
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Post by: willowtreewren on March 07, 2011, 02:04:36 PM
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After being ill for so long prior, Being on dialysis is like being brand new again.   :yahoo;

Henry, my husband said that being on dialysis made him feel ten years younger! I so understand what you are saying. And when I whined that it took 4 hours out of our lives each day, he said that it actually GAVE him 20 hours of life every day.

Kind of gave me a new perspective.  :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

So, being on dialysis feels like living instead of dying.

 :flower;
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Post by: chook on March 07, 2011, 11:17:37 PM
It's good to have some positive thoughts mixed in here, too.

I'll try.

Being on dialysis brought me to IHD and a whole new circle of cyber-friends!
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Post by: Des on March 08, 2011, 02:49:00 AM
is  like living life under a big shady tree - every now and again the sun shines through and life don't seem so bad any more.
 :flower;