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Title: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: ulrika on May 06, 2006, 09:26:10 AM: My daughter's supplies for peritoneal dialysis will arrive next Thursday, and we have no idea how much space to prepare for it.
Could the peritoneal veterans on this board please help us with this?

Ulrika
Title: Re: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: toad on May 06, 2006, 09:55:18 AM: let me know how many boxes or how many exchanges she will be doing daily...as well as how often her deliveries are then i can help u out....toad
Title: Re: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: ulrika on May 06, 2006, 10:41:00 AM: From what we understand, the deliveries will take place every 4-6 weeks, and we believe she will have 4 exchanges per day, until she starts on the cycler.
She will start her training next week, so we will know more at that time. However, the supplies will arrive while she is away on training, and we have no idea how much space to allow. Should we empty a whole room, or would a closet be enough?

Ulrika
Title: Re: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: toad on May 06, 2006, 12:09:48 PM: i went to home depot and bought a double sliding door closet with a shelf on the top...it will hold 24 full boxes of solution. on the top u can can put her drain bags needles and just about everything else...this holds almost my months supply worth with about 5 boxes on the floor...if u need anymore help u can contact me directly if u want
Title: Re: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: Epoman on May 07, 2006, 03:21:14 AM: Quote from: toad on May 06, 2006, 12:09:48 PM
i went to home depot and bought a double sliding door closet with a shelf on the top...it will hold 24 full boxes of solution. on the top u can can put her drain bags needles and just about everything else...this holds almost my months supply worth with about 5 boxes on the floor...if u need anymore help u can contact me directly if u want

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Title: Re: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: kevno on May 07, 2006, 04:59:46 AM: I just had my CAPD boxes, piled up in my room, all the extra equipment like caps,lines, alcowipes and so on. put on shelves. Did that for 12years.

Kevno
Title: Re: Space For Peritoneal Supplies?
Post by: Panda_9 on May 12, 2006, 06:43:17 AM: I was on 6 exchanges a day and the boxes took up pretty much an entire wall in my bedroom and sometimes had to put boxes in the loungeroom. I had a chest of drawers which I used to open my bags and hook up, and I put the little things in the drawers. I had an open box of caps on the top of the drawers to ready access.