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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: gothiclovemonkey on November 21, 2014, 04:26:17 PM
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Has anyone seen a movie or show that actually depicts it realistically????
I just watched the new version of Steel Magnolias, with Queen Latifah, and its like the old one, they arent showing a fistula or graft, or cath,, its like... idk... just not realistic...that frustrates me a bit lol
Note to self - never ever watch that movie again. Holy crap was I bawling.
When my docs told my parents I cant get pregnant, I always assumed they meant I physically could not concieve a child.... Now, I know they meant I shouldnt... And of course, thats part of that movie, so It was a bawl fest. I hadnt seen the old one since i was really young, and had forgotten how emotional a movie it is, on its own... add to it that we have this to deal with... wow!
EDITED: Moved from off topic to Dialysis Discussion - Rerun
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The only time I remember Dialysis in a major Movie was the Star Trek IV The Voyage Home where the following scene took place.
First, “Bones” encounters an old woman on a gurney in the hallway and asks her a question:
McCoy: What’s the matter with you?
Patient: Kidney… dialysis.
McCoy: Dialysis?! What is this? The Dark Ages? Here! You swallow that and if you have any more problems, just call me!
Later, as the crew is escaping, McCoy encounters the woman again, who’s telling everybody that McCoy had given her some pills and she grew a new kidney.
That was the only movie that showed up when I googled Dialysis Portrayed in a Movie.
The funny thing is I remember the scene vividly and occasionally think about it while in dialysis, all of a sudden I'll look around and laugh hearing Dr. Mccoy say what is this the dark ages.
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Well now there's "Dumb and Dumber To" :Kit n Stik;
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Dumb and DUmber to has dialysis? oh dear...
Ive seen quite a few tv shows and movies that have something to do with kidney failure/dialysis, and id say out of all of them, i think ive only seen maybe ONE that actually showed it realistically... but then turned around and made the transplant thing seem like a freakin walk in the park.
Haha well at least in Star Trek, it makes sense to do that! That would be awesome. Someone get on that! :P
Now, im SURE that its not only kidney stuff that gets wrongly portrayed in film, but damn, its not like they couldnt very simply do a quick bit of research for their film.... when i do my writing i try to make it realistic, if i have something i dont know, i research it! not that hard!!
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Here you go, but still no still no needles:
Fixing Paco: Season 1, Episode 2
Dreamy Dialysis Technician
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2386782/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Episode on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyROObPmejM
http://www.fixingpaco.org/
looks to be a sort of infomercial telanovela by a hospital in LA.
Paco Fuentes is a man with a full life. As a loving husband, father of four, and a handyman with a thriving business, Paco’s motto is always, “You broke it. I fix it!” But when his health begins to decline due to kidney failure, Paco must confront the disease that will change his life, and finally accept that he is now the one who needs to be fixed. Following the Fuentes family’s very real trials and tribulations in dealing with Paco’s illness, each episode of Fixing Paco educates dialysis patients and their families about the treatment option of kidney transplantation, living donation, and being proactive in healthcare. Shot in English and Spanish, Fixing Paco is a groundbreaking series that cuts through language barriers, delivering a message of hope, as Paco triumphs in battling his disease, and learns to live again.
Fixing Paco was produced by The Mendez National Institute of Transplantation, in association with Celtino Entertainment, and was made possible by a generous grant from the UniHealth Foundation.
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John Q, American Film.. Not bad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251160/ OK thats a heart transplant one but still.
Koma http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408970/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
Thriller, but strangely one of my favourites.. Not for the faint hearted.
Unconditional
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_%28film%29
Kidney Thieves.. Short comedy:
http://www.casesensitivefilms.com/kidneythieves/
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Awake
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In the last season of ER, they had Noah Wyle's character on dialysis. They had him working and doing dialysis which works for some and not others. When they showed him getting dialysis, the machine was right, the chair was right, and the needles went in his lower arm. The room was dim which is wrong and he had no blanket. I know those are minor. I can't remember for sure but I think they got him a transplant right before ER ended it's series.
Steel Magnolias isn't very accurate. Instead of a fistula, they were using needles to "strengthen her veins" or something like that. Then when she collapsed into her coma, she grabbed herself in pain. But the pain wasn't in the right place and pain would only be a sign of failure if you ignored lots of other stuff first. Unless we are to think she has pancreatitis? That hurts like hell. She didn't seem to feel pain in the right place for that either. Then they kept her on vent in the coma way too long. She would have had a trach by then.
I haven't really seen accurate things on tv or movies. Partly, kidney disease is boring and goes on forever. They always need a transplant immediately and always get one. It's the nature of writing drama.
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The new show called The Red Band Society....a young adult was on dialysis and also had liver failure. he looked great. after dialysis he ran off to almost have sex with a young girl. what ??? when i get home all i want to do is sleep and keep my food down. the only way i would have energy is to drink diet mtn. dew....lol :)
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im sure kids are a bit more resilient to this crap, but i imagine thats still not quite as realistic. Although, teen boy hormones... if presented with a chance to 'get some' i doubt much would stop them haha
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YEh Red Band Society show made NO mention of ESRD. :Kit n Stik;
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"Whose Life Is It Anyway"
Didn't get much press, but a pretty good movie.
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McCoy: Dialysis?! What is this? The Dark Ages? Here! You swallow that and if you have any more problems, just call me!
Thanks for mentioning this! I haven't seen that movie since it came out. It is one of the better original-series Star Trek films and deserves another viewing. Needless to say, I completely missed this. I might have noticed, but wouldn't have remembered.
And indeed, it is the Dark Ages. Why do you ask?
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I went ahead and watched Star Trek IV on DVD this weekend. It holds up pretty well after 29 years. It's the only one of the 6 original series films that captured the feel of the comedic episodes.
A couple of other comments. The woman in the dialysis scene has some kind of clear plastic canopy over her. Is that anything real? It doesn't make much sense to me, and has nothing to do with dialysis as far as I know. She is elderly and wearing an oxygen tube that is no longer needed after she calls out that she "grew a new kidney". Well, who knows what else was in McCoy's pill? However, it is doubtful the hospital would have identified the new kidney in that amount of time.
So much for nitpicking. McCoy had some other opinions of late 20th century medicine. He compares a discussion on chemotherapy with "The Spanish Inquisition" and tells the attending surgeon to put his "butcher knives" away when he (forcibly) takes over the care of Chekhov.
All very plausible for what a doctor visiting from the 23rd century might think of today's medical practices. Not to knock today's doctors, who are doing what they can with available technology.
On a more depressing note, I have to say that the 1986 hospital didn't look all that different than a hospital in 2015, despite how it might look to a visitor from 2286.
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All very plausible for what a doctor visiting from the 23rd century might think of today's medical practices. Not to knock today's doctors, who are doing what they can with available technology.
I wonder every so often what treatments will be rendered pointless by the time we grow old. It feels like there are all kinds of medical advances that we benefit from but you can be sure that not all of them will stand the test of time... Remember there was a time when people who prompted hand washing before surgery were considered quacks...
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Another fictional reference to dialysis, but not a movie. In the MASH episode "A War for All Seasons" (1980) they build an improvised dialysis machine using sausage casings. That may even have been the first time I heard of dialysis, and it is something that stuck in my mind ever since.
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Another fictional reference to dialysis, but not a movie. In the MASH episode "A War for All Seasons" (1980) they build an improvised dialysis machine using sausage casings. That may even have been the first time I heard of dialysis, and it is something that stuck in my mind ever since.
Kolff used sausage casings to accomplish the first successful dialysis treatment - he built the first machine during WWII in occupied Holland (NY Times link (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/health/13kolff.html)). MASH episode : Plausible
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Kolff used sausage casings to accomplish the first successful dialysis treatment - he built the first machine during WWII in occupied Holland (NY Times link (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/health/13kolff.html)). MASH episode : Plausible
MASH was one of my favorite shows, and I think they had a good research team. It's also an intriguing storyline, so no complaints.
If I find anything implausible, it's just that a small group of doctors could put one together in the middle of the Korean War (with parts from a Sears catalog). There may even be some precedent for that, but dialysis machines continued to be very rare through most of the 50s, and if that was possible, you'd think hospitals would be building them all over the place.
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No the FDA would have stopped them. During the Vietnam war some medics were using a spray on super glue on wounds to control bleeding. The FDA found out and had the military stop the use of the glue.
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I wouldn't expect that 'Hollywood' would consider dialysis as any sort of a plausibly interesting scene. Sitting on your @$$ for 4 hours in a harshly-lit medical facility? Good god, I can see people getting up to buy popcorn already......
Let's face it; dialysis may be scary, but for the most part, it's just plain DULL.
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I wouldn't expect that 'Hollywood' would consider dialysis as any sort of a plausibly interesting scene. Sitting on your @$$ for 4 hours in a harshly-lit medical facility? Good god, I can see people getting up to buy popcorn already......
Let's face it; dialysis may be scary, but for the most part, it's just plain DULL.
Well, it wouldn't have stopped Andy Warhol, who made an 8 hour movie of the Empire State Building. Warhol is not "Hollywood" I admit.
But I can imagine a movie like Norma Rae, Silkwood, or Erin Brockovich (not necessarily with a female protagonist, but it does seem to work out that way). There is plenty of drama both medical, and from the kidney industrial complex perspective. You wouldn't need a 4 hour long take of dialysis to convey the basic principle. There's also no excuse for getting it wrong when you can walk into a center in any populated area and see it firsthand.
Cancer gets a lot of attention in film. Trauma and heart disease show up as well. Transplants, yes there's John Q. I like Denzel Washington, but I can't really get on board with a protagonist who is threatening innocent lives to save one life. That kind of thing is just too much Hollywood. (added after edit: I realize he does not actually intend to kill any hostages).
I sometimes think kidney disease is the Rodney Dangerfield of life threatening conditions. I know how little I thought about kidneys before my personal brush with it. It is interesting to talk to people, and occasionally find out that they have a relative (usually older) on dialysis. This is not an unusual problem at all, but it is off the radar for most people.
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ive noticed two things about talking about D on tv/movies.
its almost always, "I need a kidney or ill die" OR its BAM i got a kidney right now, after only knowing about it for a few days.
I saw one the other day (was it malcom in the middle? i think) that the lady who needed a kidney was called in by the dr, mid day, to get a kidney she didnt even want to have.... from her sister, who had it removed that morning.... that one made me LOL because wow...
as for the actual dialysis, they never ever mention needing fistulas/grafts/caths etc...
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Fistulas aren't "pretty" enough for movies. You can only have perfectly placed interesting scars. Unless you're the bad guy.
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Fistulas aren't "pretty" enough for movies. You can only have perfectly placed interesting scars. Unless you're the bad guy.
I don't think I'm that squeamish, but I admit that when I first looked up fistula in google images, I found the pictures disturbing, like having a snake living under your skin. Are they always that big?
I can see the fistula working in a superhero movie. It could be big, provided it was perfectly shaped. I imagine someone who can fight supervillains for a few hours a day and has to spend much of the rest of the time on dialysis. Sometimes the fistula would be pulsing and appear to be a source of power. There might be some kind of snake tattoo on top of it. In weaker moments, the hero would be like any other dialysis patient.
I'm sure you could come up with an origins story for this that was as plausible as any other comic book hero.
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I saw one the other day (was it malcom in the middle? i think) that the lady who needed a kidney was called in by the dr, mid day, to get a kidney she didnt even want to have.... from her sister, who had it removed that morning.... that one made me LOL because wow...
The humor on Malcolm in the Middle was always outrageous. I didn't see this episode, but it totally fits. Of course, it doesn't reflect reality, but that's not the point.
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There's a 2009 Italian film where dialysis features prominently. It's called "Il soffio dell'amina" or "The Breath of the Soul". The plot summary states "A young man on dialysis fights to keep his disease from controlling his life and shattering his dreams." If you're on dialysis, you understand the storyline of dialysis putting a fork in your dreams (the main character is a competitive martial artist) as well as being viewed as "less than worthy" at times among your peers. There's a crazy scene where the main character's fistula explodes (or starts bleeding crazily) when he's kicked there in competition. Otherwise, the rest of the film is a little uninteresting and makes no sense. I liked it because it had a young person on dialysis.
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UkranianTracksuit, your description is hilarious. The rest of it makes no sense. I don't know any Italian but someone here might want to see it.
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UkranianTracksuit, your description is hilarious. The rest of it makes no sense. I don't know any Italian but someone here might want to see it.
It doesn't sound that great based on the small amount of info on IMDB, but you have to give them credit for going into that much (disturbing) detail on dialysis. I see it is based on a book of the same name by Valentina Lippi Bruni, which is claimed to be autobiographical on her Linkedin page. I cannot find much information written in English (and I have run some Italian through Google translate).
I was confused by UT's expression "dialysis putting a fork in your dreams", which first made me think of dreams splitting on two paths like a fork in the road, but I now I believe she meant it like "put a fork in it, it's over", right?
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Not a movie, but I was watching Chopped last night. They were doing one of the all-stars episodes where TV chef personalities were competing for a 75,000 donation for a favorite charity. The winner's choice of charity was kidney disease research. The competitor's father had PKD.
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I was confused by UT's expression "dialysis putting a fork in your dreams", which first made me think of dreams splitting on two paths like a fork in the road, but I now I believe she meant it like "put a fork in it, it's over", right?
Yeah, “put a fork in it” way of expression. Sorry, sometimes my use of expressions is unclear. Good thing you don’t have to hear me speak!
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I was confused by UT's expression "dialysis putting a fork in your dreams", which first made me think of dreams splitting on two paths like a fork in the road, but I now I believe she meant it like "put a fork in it, it's over", right?
Yeah, “put a fork in it” way of expression. Sorry, sometimes my use of expressions is unclear. Good thing you don’t have to hear me speak!
The full expression is "put a fork in it, it's done". (think BBQ steak)
If you're on dialysis, you understand the storyline of dialysis putting a fork in your dreams (the main character is a competitive martial artist) as well as being viewed as "less than worthy" at times among your peers.
There was an interesting news article about the recent 9/18 patient chain in CA. These people who are interviewed about their transplant do people facing D a big disservice - if you listened to them, you would think you life would stop once D starts. All the horror stories from the people in the media about how they "had no life" while awaiting an xplant colored my expectations of D, so I expected life to grind to a halt once it started. It turns out one can have a pretty decent life on D, and it does not have to mean the end of good times.
And I have not had any of my peers treat me as "less than worthy". They still dump the same crappy problems on me at work as they did in the old days.
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It turns out one can have a pretty decent life on D, and it does not have to mean the end of good times.
My daughter is doing so well on PD that a lot of her classmates just thought she was cured as soon as she stopped having to leave school early for hemodialysis. She will need a transplant eventually, but she isn't acting desperate about it. Holding on to a transplant doesn't sound like a picnic either. In fact there are two popular misconceptions, the other one being that getting a transplant fixes everything up.
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Different expectations, dreams and social groups, to be honest.
I'll give the experience of a young female known as a drama queen. My life was shattered when I knew my days of singled sleeved Pucci dresses were over. Some people are stressed out trying to make ends meet and I was focused on what I couldn't wear. Perspective, right? The very lame Italian movie gave the perspective of a young man facing common challenges such as love and the achievement of dreams. The main character faced a lot of stigma. "Don't love that boy, he's damaged!" Yes, the media should give more dialysis success stories as everyone loves a good human interest story.
Dialysis is obviously not a path illuminated by the ethereal joy of rainbows. Some people succeed on it while others do face an end to good times. My good times ended when late stage CKD and dialysis struck. No more decisions on the spot to leave for vacations to sun or the party. Subsequently, friends stopped including me on such trips or social events. Dating went down the toilet. Kind of like in the Italian film where the girl got heck from people for loving dialysis boy. Nightlife was problematic; no staying out all night, very small drinks, too tired to dance. No more school in Marseille. At work, I can't conduct interesting field work in strange places. My colleagues receive funding to go to amazing places and I'm stuck in my office to be tied to a machine three times a week. Woo wee. Kidney failure put my life from fun to zero.
I'm happy in your case that your peers do not treat you less than worthy. I face a lot of judgement that somehow I am severely disabled thus incapable of being normal for my age. Ah, the judgement. The wonderful judgement. Especially now, with the kale and yoga generation who are dead set on being healthy forever, I MUST HAVE done something to cause the boat I'm in. So, they make jokes and assumptions. Following that, there is the belief that I am somehow less of a woman for being on dialysis. Cause you know, you can't be beautiful with a fistula! To my circle, it matters. Or, I make a useful Instagram prop when they want to seem they care for "deep causes". You know, #caring #strength.
In the grand scheme of the dialysis world, all of this doesn't matter. Chronic illness and dialysis present so many problems to people that make these concerns vapid. Can you have a "generally" good life on dialysis. Sure. A great life of love, strength and meeting good people in your fellow patients. You can work, own a home, get educated, get married etc. The film portrayed a young decent looking man doing his thing despite dialysis. Hence, I liked the concept he succeeded. Life doesn't end obviously. It just depends what is considered fun to people. Perspective yet again. As for the film, a martial artist on dialysis is going to be at a disadvantage than someone (in the same weight class) bulked and healthy. Any kind of dreams like that have to end. Life in general goes on but specific dreams end. But then again, everyone experiences this at some point.
In other news, back to the original topic of the thread. My parents called to tell me on "Marcus Welby, MD" there was an episode called "Killer of Dreams" about dialysis. A young woman had one kidney, had to have a nephrectomy on the other one and start dialysis. Her fiancé ditched her and then she decided she wanted to quit dialysis. Happy ending; they convinced her to go back. My parents were so excited to call to say, "Zomg! There was dialysis! On TV! At dinnertime! Were you sleeping?"
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Life in general goes on but specific dreams end.
True. Returning to Ireland for a second honeymoon with the wife was one for me. Yes, I know international travel is possible, but my wife and I have decided it is not worth the hassle with all the cool stuff we can do in the US. I had a great trip to Bangalore a few years before dialysis....there is no way I am going back to visit India on dialysis, or even if I get a transplant (microbes and all), even though I could probably buy a kidney while I was there.
I suppose I was lucked - I got to my mid fifties, married, had the family, and got old enough that if I lose my job I am not "unemployed" but "retired". The dialysis hassles would have been a bigger impact on my life in my younger years.
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The TV show, Revolution, had a plot where one of the villain's wife had kidney failure. Post-apocalyptic show, so no dialysis or electricity. He kept her alive via blood transfusions from prisoners, not sure how accurate that would be, but the scenes were pretty brutal. She was clearly miserable.
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3209876/
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The TV show, Revolution, had a plot where one of the villain's wife had kidney failure. Post-apocalyptic show, so no dialysis or electricity. He kept her alive via blood transfusions from prisoners, not sure how accurate that would be, but the scenes were pretty brutal. She was clearly miserable.
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3209876/
I can't imagine that working for very long if at all. Are you supposed to drain all the blood and replace it? And every transfusion is going to increase the chance of catching a disease or developing new antibodies.
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The movie Rock Star that starred Mark Wahlberg had a scene where the bands manager was getting a dialysis treatment backstage. The machine setup and line placement looked correct even if the location (behind a curtain just off stage) looked sketchy.
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Devious Maids had a woman who gets up on dialysis. It doesnt show anything dialysis related, though she just says it makes her tired. no access or anything either lol
she is rich and when discussing transplant , says its ok she can just buy one. only to find out it isnt legal
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Devious Maids had a woman who gets up on dialysis. It doesnt show anything dialysis related, though she just says it makes her tired. no access or anything either lol
she is rich and when discussing transplant , says its ok she can just buy one. only to find out it isnt legal
I've never seen the show but picture Joan Collins playing the part.
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Devious Maids had a woman who gets up on dialysis. It doesnt show anything dialysis related, though she just says it makes her tired. no access or anything either lol
she is rich and when discussing transplant , says its ok she can just buy one. only to find out it isnt legal
I've never seen the show but picture Joan Collins playing the part.
Close lol Susan Lucci
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Code Black had a dialysis story line... kind of.... the patient had had a transplant, and it had failed... the kicker was, the patient was a serial killer, and was a prisoner in a high security prison.. they had him connected to the machine through a central line.. but they did get it kind of wrong.. saying that the machine was the only thing keeping him alive.. and one of the young doctors wanted to "pull the plug"
The show is new... perhaps they'll figure it out before it gets cancelled...
The only show that really depicted transplant right.. well, almost anyway.. was Three Rivers, which was centered around a transplant centre and a procurement team... I liked it, but it only lasted one season...
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The scifi show, The 100 is using dialysis (it's a futuristic interpretation, interesting catheter plug flush with the chest) as radiation therapy. Season 2 I think (just appeared on netflix)
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of all things... Family guy.
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There is a major motion picture coming out (Going in Style (https://youtu.be/hcdTN5soeQw)), where in Morgan Freeman is using dialysis
https://chronicdiseasecoalition.com/going-in-style-brings-kidney-disease-awareness-to-a-movie-theater-near-you/ (https://chronicdiseasecoalition.com/going-in-style-brings-kidney-disease-awareness-to-a-movie-theater-near-you/)
I guess we'll see how dialysis does in the movie, it sounds like it transplant centric but looking at the trailer (https://youtu.be/hcdTN5soeQw) at least it seems we'll see a dialyzor with enough energy to plan a caper. That's a step forward.
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Thank you Bill Peckham for the information about "Going in Style" and I really look forward to watch this film
I saw the 1979 version of "Going in Style" where George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg are living on the dole and decide to organize a bank robbery.
In the 1979 version there was no dialysis involved but it is a very witty film and well worth watching all the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFBTnavIGHg
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This is one of my favorite Family Guy episodes of all time.
For those that aren't familiar, Family Guy is an adult cartoon that is fairly irreverent. In this episode, the father of the family (Peter) destroys his kidneys by drinking homemade Red Bull.
The family dog (Brian), decides that he has lived a long and fruitful life and he is willing to donate both his kidneys to Peter so that Peter can live without dialysis.
Of course, at the end, just as the surgery was about to start, Dr. Nick, Family Guy jack-of-all-medical-trades comes up with the best line of all:
"Dog kidneys? What was I thinking?"
Never fails to send me into gales of laughter. I figure it's okay for me to laugh since I'm usually the only one in the room when we are watching it who has ESRD ;D
of all things... Family guy.
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Grampa Simpson needed a transplant from Homer because Homer would not pull the car over when Grampa needed to pee.
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There is a major motion picture coming out (Going in Style (https://youtu.be/hcdTN5soeQw)), where in Morgan Freeman is using dialysis
https://chronicdiseasecoalition.com/going-in-style-brings-kidney-disease-awareness-to-a-movie-theater-near-you/ (https://chronicdiseasecoalition.com/going-in-style-brings-kidney-disease-awareness-to-a-movie-theater-near-you/)
I guess we'll see how dialysis does in the movie, it sounds like it transplant centric but looking at the trailer (https://youtu.be/hcdTN5soeQw) at least it seems we'll see a dialyzor with enough energy to plan a caper. That's a step forward.
I just saw the movie and there is a scene with Morgan Freeman on HD in a Fresenius Clinic (product placement?). He is told that the dialysis is no longer sufficient and he must have a transplant soon. I don't want to spoil the ending, but I found it interesting that given the fact that Morgan isn't getting sufficient results from the dialysis, he appears to be pretty energetic and healthy during the 20+ days of preparation for the big heist.
Any other observations for those of you who have seen the movie?
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Fresenius Clinic (product placement?).
I don't know, but I worked for a large computer storage system company, and we had a group dedicate to product placement. If a production company needed a computer room, the group would ship truckloads of hollow cabinets with the front panels intact and all the blinking lights operational (but no equipment, really kept the weight down). I know the computer room on "24" had a lot of our stuff.
At least some guns in action movies are intentional product placement, and some unintentional. The Miami Vice crew spent a bundle on prop guns, and I was surprised they were hardly ever seen. Unknown to the supplier (until the release), these guns made it to the Heroes production set and were featured so prominently they should have had a co-starring credit. The entire dymanic of that aspect of product placement was turned on its head when Stembridge prop rentals went out of business.
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There's a new one coming out this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834362/
''What Death Leaves Behind" presents a blue collar working man with a health problem, suffering kidney disease and in need of a transplant to continue to support his family. Jake Warren (newcomer Khalil McMillan is our Everyman), working at his Uncle Henry's HVAC company, and going in for dialysis treatments hoping to find a donor soon. A quiet man with some family issues, finally is blessed with luck. The operation is a success but... well, he's changing. Bad dreams, ugly thoughts, and an obsession with who the donor could be. This leads Jake down a dark path, with questions about a series of local killings in Chester, PA. The psychological thriller is based on real life "tissue memory" donor recipients, and the film goes deep into the idea of identity loss. The outcome of the story is jarring and heartbreaking in a smart thriller. The casting is key in this very stark thriller, no flashy big names but solid actors in defined roles. McMillan is great as our lead, an imposing strong and ultimately scary dude. Vincent Young as his co-worker defined as a logical caring friend, and Philly iconic actor Christopher Mann as Henry, a father figure. Standout performance by Mann in the final act is a revelation to his outstanding acting ability. Chad Morton story and collaborative script by producer Rachael Ofori, and directors Scott A. Hamilton and Nico Giampietro bring the goods. The film is unpredictable, and reminiscent of M. Night Shyamalan's best early efforts. Low budget but solid indie you will not forget."
The trailer is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWH_aY8Pzw
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Yikes! looks creepy good! I'm almost 3 months transplant and so far no flashbacks or weird visions. But my donor was my lovely sister-in-law and she is pretty terrific. I expected to inherit her love of pretty shoes, so far I'm sticking with my Brooks trainers.
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My favorite was Epcot computer room, had huge viewing window, all the equipment was skinned to look like Univac computers. This was during the late eighties and AT&T needed to install new machines in the room. 3B20 and 3B2 systems. It was a pain they had fracators build new cabinets for the 3B20’s and sand blasted the 3B2 covers repainted and restenciled the covers. It was strange working on the weird looking boxes.
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There was an episode of Mary Kills People, a fiction series about a woman who euthanizes people with terminal illnesses. She gives the drug on the beach to a rosy-cheeked, clear-thinking, fully mobile older lady who doesn't want to face the machine.
It's similar to an early episode of Scrubs, where a new doctor is responsible for another older lady with kidney failure. She's similarly lively and feisty with no swelling or fatigue or cobwebby brain, no symptoms whatsoever. At one point she gets up and leaves the hospital to walk to a nearby park and have a festive birthday picnic with her granddaughter. The doctor wants her to at least try dialysis but she declines. Naturally, she dies a few hours later(!) hahahaaaaaaa ha.
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Unfortunately, I don't remember the title, but there was a post-apocalyptic move in which a member of one of the factions (it seems everyone breaks up into waring factions after an apocalypse) needed dialysis, but there were no machines. The problem was solved by kidnapping people, draining all their blood, and using it to replace the blood of the ESRD patient.
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I was watching a show called Judging Amy. Amy Brenneman is a family court judge, and Tyne Daly plays her mother, who is a CPS worker. Amy has an alcoholic doctor cousin who was working in a small hospital. In one episode, he has a little girl who has failing kidneys. At one point, he tells the girls father that she needs a kidney soon because he doesn't think she will survive another "round of dialysis."
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Oh, these are all so good!
I'd forgotten about the one that made me so mad I had to stop watching it altogether.
There's a show called Jessica Jones on Netflix. Jessica is the victim of this mind-controlling maniac (played by David Tennant of Doctor Who) and while she's trying to bring this maniac down, she encounters others who were victims of this man.
One of the victims is this young man, Jack, who was driving a bus (that was crashed by said maniac) and one of the victims of the bus accident has a crushed kidney. Jack feels guilty about the crash, so Jack insists that a doctor take BOTH(!!!) of his kidneys to give to the victim. Also, he is the wrong blood type, and is told the kidneys would fail in A FEW YEARS(!!!) but he donates both anyways! Because it totally works like that!
Anyway, Jessica goes to ask Jack questions and finds Jack living with his (somewhat awful) mother, but doing home dialysis in their very nice home.
Jessica is wide eyed: "Are you hooked up to this all the time???" It's implied that he is, indeed -- that, yes, he's hooked up 24/7 to a machine the size of a small ATM, and that if he's unhooked he'll die.
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There is a Québécois film called "Le Garagiste" about a mechanic on dialysis and waiting for a kidney transplant. I guess it was marketed in English as "Adrien". Anyway, there was a lot of emphasis on thinking about mortality and I fell asleep during it. However, dialysis being a key to the storyline was pretty cool.
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I forget the title, but watched a movie a few years ago where one of the main characters was on PD. Because he was so focused on helping these underprivileged kids, he kept skipping his treatments. You see him clutching his stomach in pain numerous times throughout the movie. Near the end, he collapses and is bleeding (!). He then almost immediately gets a transplant. So, so wrong in so many ways!
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Susan Delfino, Desperate Housewives. Actually that was my one and only reference with this whole thing when the doctors told me I needed dyalisis, back in May. I was like "Oh like Susan from Desperate Housewives! ... Ooooh..."
It wasn't that unrealistic, at least they were talking about it in a hit tv show. Although they said the treatment was for 6 hours. Mine was always 4. And everyone else's as well. And we didn't chat during treatment. But I guess in a show, you have to chat, lol.
In the original Steel Magnolias, I think they do show Julia Robert's fistula. I think.
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This portrayal of kidney transplantation is so ridiculous, I felt the need to post here for the first time in years: https://tvline.com/2019/05/08/riverdale-recap-season-3-episode-21-the-dark-secret-of-harvest-house/
My daughter convinced me to start watching Riverdale and we're finishing up season three. I think the series got off to a promising start in season one, but I'm not sure why we're still watching. It somehow manages to be preposterous and repetitive at the same time, recycling the most preposterous plot twists in slight variations (generally involved the formation of new and implausible gangs by the teens, and some form of drug dealing and/or real estate fraud by the adults).
Anyway, the "dark secret" as you can probably guess is that they're harvesting. Wait for it. Kidneys, bwhahaha! And the amazing thing is that they just keep a big refrigerator of kidneys in boxes for later sale. Uh... no. In a climactic scene, Betty grabs one of these boxes with a kidney for proof. Granted, it wouldn't be much good at that point anyway.
There is a realistic enough portrayal of hemodialysis. My daughter picked up on it immediately, and she would know. There was also an IV in that scene, marked as anti-rejection drugs, which made very little sense, particularly as the surroundings were not sterile at all. We got a good laugh out of that, as well as the refrigerator. I guess there are some perks to having a family member who knows this stuff.
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There was an episode of Stargate Atlantis when a blood test was sufficient to work someone up for a transplant, they did a bone marrow tolerance transplant like it was a quick and easy procedure, then had the medical tech on board do the transplant after reading the instructions because they had no doctor on board.
The realistic part was one of two qualified donors chickening out.
This was during the late eighties and AT&T needed to install new machines in the room. 3B20 and 3B2 systems. It was a pain they had fracators build new cabinets for the 3B20’s and sand blasted the 3B2 covers repainted and restenciled the covers. It was strange working on the weird looking boxes.
AARGH!!!! I remember having to use a 3B2 instead of a Sparc because the startup I was working at was funded by tpc (the phone company).
I know some big compute companies have teams that have skins of machines dedicated for movie sets and will send a truck out and build a computer room for your movie ... as long as you leave their brand visible. I've noticed the "Microsoft" credit in movies that rammed the Surface PC down the viewers throat every chance the plot called for someone to use a computer.
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Episode 6 of The Good Karma Hospital, free on amazon prime video this month shows a woman at the Indian hospital recently post transplant with dehydration. Later they figure out that the surgery likely happened in India.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6441720/
We watch all six episodes over the weekend and enjoyed it.
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I barely watch television and never do I ever watch sitcoms but an acquaintance shared this tidbit with me. There is a show coming out on CBS called "B Positive" about some guy that needs a kidney donor and some chick from his past shows up offering to donate. Since it's a comedy, I guess it will be lighthearted?!
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I barely watch television and never do I ever watch sitcoms but an acquaintance shared this tidbit with me. There is a show coming out on CBS called "B Positive" about some guy that needs a kidney donor and some chick from his past shows up offering to donate. Since it's a comedy, I guess it will be lighthearted?!
I've seen that advertised and was thinking of watching it just to see what they got wrong. Since it's created by the same people who created The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, it might not be too bad.
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The only one I've seen if I remember correctly was .Ondine