access clotted off a month from the last one!

[sullidog]

this makes the second time my access has clotted off, actually it will be a month from monday actually. I think I know why it's getting clotted off, there's techs that don't know what the heck they are doing, they are sticking it in the same spot and they are also sticking the same place even though I've told them not to. I'm blind so of course I can't self-canulate but if I could I'd be right on it. I can't have a fistula because my vaines wouldn't support one, and I'm about to just tell my vascular surgeon to put the stupid catheter back in or tell my dialysis center to not hier such stupid people that don't know how to do their job. Like one day I had this tech say it feels like there's two accesses in the same area, they will sometimes do that. Well what she was actually feeling was my stent. Now come on putting two accesses in the same spot? Wonder where she got that from. That tech has since left and went to davida. Crap is deffinately going to hit the fan if these people can't help me take care of my graft.
Troy

[willowtreewren]

That really sucks. To them it is just a job, but for you, it is your life-line!

What a bummer, Troy.

Aleta

[RightSide]

Don't feel bad.  That may not be the reason that the access clotted off.  Even if it was, your techs may not have much choice--the other parts of the access may be too deep or too curvy to be usable.

I had two fistulas clot off, each within a month after the surgery to put it in.  Neither ever developed to the point that it was even usable once.  I had babied my arm, I didn't lift heavy objects or even do much housework with that arm.  Didn't matter.  They clotted off anyway.