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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Centers => Dialysis: Doctors => Topic started by: karen547 on September 08, 2007, 09:40:20 AM

Title: my fistula surgeon/surgery
Post by: karen547 on September 08, 2007, 09:40:20 AM
 I am very lucky to have had a GREAT surgeon for my fistula. I felt so much safer with him then my Neph, who is a complete MORON. The surgery was great, I didn't have much pain afterwards and went home the next day.
Title: Re: my fistula surgeon/surgery
Post by: Black on September 08, 2007, 10:00:17 AM
:2thumbsup;  Great!  Glad it went well.   :2thumbsup;

Did you remember to ask how long you need to wait to begin exercising with the squeeze ball?
Title: Re: my fistula surgeon/surgery
Post by: karen547 on September 08, 2007, 10:27:49 AM
 I start to use my fisula on monday, and i hardly exercised with the squeezy ball
Title: Re: my fistula surgeon/surgery
Post by: Black on September 08, 2007, 10:38:50 AM
I start to use my fisula on monday, and i hardly exercised with the squeezy ball

Usual wait time between fistula surgery and first use is eight weeks.  Did you get a catheter instead of a fistula?  Or did you have some minor fistula repair?  Or do they have some new technique I don't know about?
Title: Re: my fistula surgeon/surgery
Post by: karen547 on September 08, 2007, 12:22:27 PM
I've been through 3 catheters in my neck.  :banghead;
I am so ready to get rid of it!
Title: Re: my fistula surgeon/surgery
Post by: Hazmat35 on May 15, 2013, 05:42:53 AM
I am very lucky to have had a GREAT surgeon for my fistula. I felt so much safer with him then my Neph, who is a complete MORON. The surgery was great, I didn't have much pain afterwards and went home the next day.

I was extremely lucky when I received my Fistula.  My Nephr referred me to a surgeon in the same building, and HE WAS FANTASTIC.  The surgery went great.  And I was home in about 6 hours from start to finish!  Barely left a scar, which is about 2-inches long, but bariley visable.