Things not to do to me while I am at My dialysis center.

[kevno]

Not to strap my arm to a board to keep it straight for the needle, not to hold me down, not to give me Valium the calm me down. Just before having the Needle.  That happened when I first went on hemo at the age of ten. Still gets those flash back if the nurse misses the vein, are the needle clots. I want  to know the nurse that is going to put me on, not ask if i am ready for the needle. JUST DO IT. plus quickly!.If the nurse does happen to miss, do not ask if he/she can try again. Just get on with it. You would think after nearly 36 years of having needles you would get used to them.

[kitkatz]

Nine years of having hemodialysis needles stuck into me and I know if I stop to think about it I would have a really bad panic attack, so I throw the needle idea to the back of the brain in a small compartment and do not let it out!

[terry3004]

Not to strap my arm to a board to keep it straight for the needle, not to hold me down, not to give me Valium the calm me down. Just before having the Needle.  That happened when I first went on hemo at the age of ten. Still gets those flash back if the nurse misses the vein, are the needle clots. I want  to know the nurse that is going to put me on, not ask if i am ready for the needle. JUST DO IT. plus quickly!.If the nurse does happen to miss, do not ask if he/she can try again. Just get on with it. You would think after nearly 36 years of having needles you would get used to them.

Do you have a fistula?  If so, have you looked into having buttonholes done?

I am very needlephobic and I have buttonholes and barely feel the needles when I stick myself.  It takes about two weeks to setup the buttonholes and then you really don't feel the needles go in anymore.

[kitkatz]

Do NOT act like you know everything, just because you work dialysis. I am the one living with this disease 24 hours a day and often I am the one who has been at dialysis longer than you have worked at it!

[terry3004]

Do NOT act like you know everything, just because you work dialysis. I am the one living with this disease 24 hours a day and often I am the one who has been at dialysis longer than you have worked at it!

Geez...sorry   

Just trying to make a suggestion...from one patient to another.

[monrein]

Hey Terry, I don't think Kit was saying that to you.  I could be wrong but I think she was talking to any one of a number of dialysis nurses.

[UNIBALLER]

here's mine as a non-patient.

Don't give my wife syringes and a cup of water when she going to be stuck in a chair and bored while I'm out of the room

[okarol]

Do NOT act like you know everything, just because you work dialysis. I am the one living with this disease 24 hours a day and often I am the one who has been at dialysis longer than you have worked at it!

Geez...sorry   

Just trying to make a suggestion...from one patient to another.

Kitkatz is posting to the thread "Things not to do to me while I am at My dialysis center." - not to you personally.

[kitkatz]

Yes, I was posting to the thread not you personally.

[kevno]

I have known about the buttonhole for years now  But the unit does not use it or have the needles for it    they would have to have a nurse on the unit every time I was there who knew how to do buttonhole  Plus I have one slight problem my fistula is only about 3 inches long now  They can only get one needle in. If two, to much recirculation. Then worse dialysis than i am getting now  It is a pretty new fistula. had it put in May 1980 

(To The Nurses) Don't just walk into the waiting room say who's next. I stand up, the nurse says "sorry can not do you kev" Then have to wait another half hour to get on!

[fluffy]

if you are a trainee don't attempt to needle my arm, ask somone else to do it. i am not a guinea pig.

STOP asking me about my aranesp, i have informed the last 15 nurses that i take it on my own at home.

When i say "i am about to cramp up stop the machine" dont argue with me, i dont care if you've stopped pulling or not, it dosent make a difference. i dont care if theres 30 mins left. i just want the pain to stop. so dont argue with me and for the record... F**K YOU!

dont comment on the amount of calories in my snack and dont ever touch my snack. i have very few pleasures left in my miserable life candy is one of them.

dont act surprised when i only need to hold my acess for 2 mins after treatment im 25 not 98 everything dosent work according to the books and all people are different

stop asking me about the goddamn transplant list, i'll be on it when i get on it