ILOVEDIALYSIS?

[KICKSTART]

Ladystardust 24 , you go girl ! Thats the attitude i have and love ! And ...Ziggy played guitarrrrrrrr !

[del]

I second the roommate thing, and, I think we need to find a nice cute one..

I must say, over 20 years i have had my bout with annoying,ignorant staff.. (my unit is a hospital one, so..its a hospital) So, also as I said, i have been lucky enough to have my dad teaching me the ropes, especially since he does work in the same institution. I also myself tend to be the independent,"feisty" type. So i take no b.s. When they say they don't know and I feel something missing. or they try to be patronizing. I had(more than once, but I will just go with this one time.)

I knew what was wrong.. and it had happened after a procedure, so in order to rule it out, they had to do a CTscan.. the doctor didnt want to.was rude too. And he didnt want to give me a real reason why not do the scan... So i simply told him.

"fine, send me home. BUT. I want you to put it in the chart, that I did ask you for a CTscan, that I told you what I knew it was, but that you refused to do it, and your reason why you refused... I also want your signature and name and your medical ID number and title. Because If something does happen,I want it to my on file that I did tell you I wanted A scan, and I want it to be on file why you denied that. And if something does happen because of this. I will go straight for your medical license."

And of course, he did what I wanted, because who is going to risk their license over a ctscan? yep.. and by the way I was right. And I told him that next time listen to your patients.. and that I have known myself for 20 years, so again.. next time.listen and respect me, I am allowing you to treat me, not someone else, you. So show your patients some respect, because one day, you will be a patient, and who will hope that someone shows you more respect and kindness than you showed me. he did apologize. haha.

So yea, I say. I have told other friends of mine who are new to doing what our parents had done before, and generally anyone else who is annoyed. haha because it does work. And btw if they ask if you are threatening them you simply say 'no. I asked you for certain things because my own health and care is my priority. and you as my doctor did not do what you had to. So no it is not a threat, it is a promise, you screw up, I will make sure you do not do it to another person."  So yes. I am a war general when it comes to my health. haha. I do what I got and take down anyone who is preventing me from winning my battle. be it sickness,or a idiotic resident.

(btw when saying the whole thing, remember, make sure it is the ATTENDING that puts down the reason he is denying it, that you did ask for it.. and his information. not a  resident/intern. make sure the top guy takes the responsibility.)

SO yes. mu haha. I'm a little renal russian-jewish napoleon. muhaha. (I still have my KGB-looking/sounding papa, right by my side, if they don't fear me..the definitely fear him. haha. you don't mess with our family members)

You sound like my husband!!  He takes no BS!!

[nycrtst85]

inspiring post i draw and read the bible when i'm on dialysis which makes time fly by.dialysis is a blessing i know this elderly man whos would have been dead 8 years ago if it wasnt for dialysis.God bless you and all that are on this situation.

[Hanify]

Nurse Wratchett do you have any thing to add?  Where should the line be?  If we are educated and know what we want, should we just put our foot down?  That's what we had to do when I did haemo - but we felt kind of rude.  But they just had this OBSESSION with fluid, and wouldn't listen to us when we said it wasn't going to be good.  So I almost always had what you're describing Phil - sore eyes, vomiting couldn't walk after etc - untill we started refusing to let them take more than 1.5l off in any 5 hour session!  Boy, now I've found ihd and know so much more, they're going to see a wayyyyy stroppier Bernadette than they saw before.

[dwcrawford]

I've said before, Bernie, that my Thanh always discusses with me my weight gains, checks ankles, bps, lungs, etc. then together we decide.  I can take 1.5 off easily.  On occassion she' bump it to 2, but then this smart ass tech who know more than god has been coming around and bumping it up to 3.  I can't do it cause it ain't there.  At first I didn't know what she was doing, but then Thanh turned the machine around so I could see.  The tech said I didn't know what I was looking at anyway and turns it back.  Needless to say she may not how nice the nice Dan can be but she ain't seen the lights for Dirty Dan yet.  I  am not too far above lobbying to get the b***h fired.

[Hanify]

Nice point Dannie - call me Bernie one more time and you're a dead man!