Quote from: nkviking75 on October 15, 2006, 02:41:48 PMIf I may ask, what are you trying to design? How about an economical, comfortable dialysis chair with individual HDTV monitor (connected to cable or satellite) which also works with a built in computer, automated itch scratcher (because not all itches are in the back) to compensate for limited movement, specialized book/magazine stand for making reading with our one available hand more convenient, light switch, thermostat, call button, and telephone? Is that too much to ask? ;-)Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man!!! THAT is what I want for Christmas!!!!!! I am sooooo sick and tired of not being able to get ahold of a nurse when I need as they are always out of ear shot and I am tired of never being able to reach my back to scratch it as if I move to much the needle in my arm might move and the arterial alarm goes off but siting that long against a plastic chair makes my back itchy!!I also hate how in my unit we don't even have cable. Just the normal basic channels with bad reception on half and even worse when it rains! I also hate how my dialysis machine screen is usually too far to push all the buttons when it alarms. I can only reach about half the screen. ALso may I add PLEASE BETTER BP CUFFS!!!!! The ones that have a bar like the ones you buy from the drug store which makes it easy to put it on yourself with one arm! Instead of having to wait for a nurse to put the cuff on it would be nice to do it myself! On Monday the nurse put it on too lose and then my BP was reading high and I said, "That is not right" to which she said, "your BP is fine". She didn't readjust my cuff but instead ignored me! When I moved my arm a few min later the cuff actually SLID DOWN MY ARM!Thx Hope my input is helpful!
If I may ask, what are you trying to design? How about an economical, comfortable dialysis chair with individual HDTV monitor (connected to cable or satellite) which also works with a built in computer, automated itch scratcher (because not all itches are in the back) to compensate for limited movement, specialized book/magazine stand for making reading with our one available hand more convenient, light switch, thermostat, call button, and telephone? Is that too much to ask? ;-)
To acheive a realistic case study of what it truly means to be a Dialysis Patient, here's what I suggest you do:1. Get yourself an easy chair that doesn't quite recline the way you like and pokes you in the back continuously.2. Sit in said chair with one of your arms tied down with two painful needles inserted.3. Stay put for three to four hours, depending on what treatment you're trying to replicate.4. Four feet away place an elderly gentleman with terrible gas and a bad attitude who likes to shout phrases like, "p*ck your cabbage," or "Douche bags are tasty," continuously through the treatment.5. Give elderly man a 13" diagonal TV and turn it up to full volume while tuned to some tacky novella.6. Have someone playing a doctor come by, ask you how you're doing and then ignore everything you say.7. Make sure at the 2 hour mark to have someone take a vice clamp, apply it to your right calf and tighten it as far as possible for as long as possible.8. Repeat three times a week until a new kidney becomes available or you pass on.The preceding may seem faceitous, but there's nuggets of truth scattered throughout.
AND put a blood pressure cuff around your arm and have someone pump it up until you scream every 30 minutes! Then try and sleep........
Quote from: Rerun on October 20, 2006, 02:01:26 AMAND put a blood pressure cuff around your arm and have someone pump it up until you scream every 30 minutes! Then try and sleep........Oh ya .. sometimes when the cuff pumps .. does anyone else find it uncomfortable? I mean .. my cuff at home is not like that! I have no problem with it! But the one at dialysis .. damn it is annoyingly itchy and pinches and ... I just don't like it
Quote from: angieskidney on October 20, 2006, 02:12:58 AMQuote from: Rerun on October 20, 2006, 02:01:26 AMAND put a blood pressure cuff around your arm and have someone pump it up until you scream every 30 minutes! Then try and sleep........Oh ya .. sometimes when the cuff pumps .. does anyone else find it uncomfortable? I mean .. my cuff at home is not like that! I have no problem with it! But the one at dialysis .. damn it is annoyingly itchy and pinches and ... I just don't like it Why not then take the BP cuff you have at home to your center and use that one. That's what I have done before.
Why not then take the BP cuff you have at home to your center and use that one. That's what I have done before.
Yeah, I wonder. I'll email them and ask!
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