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« on: March 24, 2011, 11:40:54 AM »
Just curious who spends the most time on here? I look in the mirror and still see the person I was, not the person I am. I have been on borrowed time for near thirty years now. Even if I was to live another 40 years (which will never happen) I am past middle aged. So who's out there? Young folks? Old folks? Women? Men? I know everybody and every gender but by replies will truly show me who's ghosting around on this site and what age. I have actually looked at many of your summary's, you should try it, it's great for us kidney stalkers.(LOL) I just have way to much time.
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2011, 12:37:57 PM »
I will turn 50 this year, still a young man at heart. I try to forget being sick and do what I want, hunt, fish, ride my Motorcycle. I feel guilty about Playing when all my friends are working.
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2011, 12:54:55 PM »
I think everyone with kidney failure lives on borrowed time.
Me I'm still 15 at heart, even if I now look a lot older!!!!  ;D
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2011, 01:04:40 PM »
Quote from: iketchum on March 24, 2011, 12:37:57 PM
I will turn 50 this year, still a young man at heart. I try to forget being sick and do what I want, hunt, fish, ride my Motorcycle. I feel guilty about Playing when all my friends are working.

Now  how can you feel guilty having fun........   :clap;
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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2011, 03:46:57 PM »
I'm a 37 year old female.  I just started my second stint on dialysis last week.  I was only 15 when I got sick the first time and 20 when I started dialysis the first time.  I am a lot older this time around but still feel too young to be doing this again. :(
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Found out I had kidney disease when I was 15.
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Kidney failed at 37 and I began my second journey on dialysis.
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2011, 04:35:12 PM »
I'm a 41 yr old female. But I often feel much older. First time on dialysis, waiting for second transplant.
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2011, 04:48:37 PM »
Rock chick , biker  :kickstart;   (if you look for this smiley its MINE all MINE )  :rofl;  I think im the Dorian Grey of this site .... :rofl; Least i was last time i looked in the attic !!
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2011, 09:06:18 PM »
Quote from: gaelicdevil on March 24, 2011, 11:40:54 AM
Just curious who spends the most time on here? I look in the mirror and still see the person I was, not the person I am. I have been on borrowed time for near thirty years now. Even if I was to live another 40 years (which will never happen) I am past middle aged. So who's out there? Young folks? Old folks? Women? Men? I know everybody and every gender but by replies will truly show me who's ghosting around on this site and what age. I have actually looked at many of your summary's, you should try it, it's great for us kidney stalkers.(LOL) I just have way to much time.

Nothing wrong with that.
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2011, 09:24:32 PM »
I'm female, and too old to have to answer questions about my age from anyone except my doctor!   :-*

Although if you'd like a hint - I cracked up laughing reading this quote on cocktail napkins sold at Pier One; " If 40 is the new 20, then cellulite is the new tattoo!"
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« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2011, 12:22:51 AM »
 :rofl;  :rofl;  :rofl;  :rofl;

I heard grey is the new blonde too!!!!
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2011, 12:24:27 AM »
I have lots of "blonde" streaks in my hair.
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« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2011, 12:34:19 AM »
Would you drink a young wine ...no you wouldn't ....  :2thumbsup;  :2thumbsup;
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2011, 12:37:55 AM »
Quote from: gaelicdevil on March 24, 2011, 11:40:54 AM
Just curious who spends the most time on here? I look in the mirror and still see the person I was, not the person I am. I have been on borrowed time for near thirty years now. Even if I was to live another 40 years (which will never happen) I am past middle aged. So who's out there? Young folks? Old folks? Women? Men? I know everybody and every gender but by replies will truly show me who's ghosting around on this site and what age. I have actually looked at many of your summary's, you should try it, it's great for us kidney stalkers.(LOL) I just have way to much time.

I've never been described as a ghost before even on one of my worst between transplant moments!!!!!  8)
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 12:41:40 AM »
I hope I'm not too spooky!
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"Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think?  I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken.  Or a duck.  Or whatever they're programmed to be.  You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of last week."
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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2011, 12:49:22 AM »
 :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
How did we go down this line ?????
I can't stop laughing now!
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2011, 12:52:49 AM »
Quote from: Sugarlump on March 25, 2011, 12:49:22 AM
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
How did we go down this line ?????
I can't stop laughing now!

I don't know your excuse, but it's almost 3AM here, and I'm seeing ghosts.  I think it might be time for me to go to sleep.  When I stay up late like this jabbering on IHD, I can't wake up until gone 10AM.  Lazy git that I am.
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"Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think?  I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken.  Or a duck.  Or whatever they're programmed to be.  You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of last week."
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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2011, 12:54:32 AM »
Just got up 10 to 8 and checking messages before i tackle the day!!!
Least I've got silly grin on my face now  ;D
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2011, 01:00:57 AM »
Quote from: Sugarlump on March 25, 2011, 12:54:32 AM
Just got up 10 to 8 and checking meassages before i tackle the day!!!
Least I've got silly grin on my face now  ;D

My sleep schedule is so wonky that I think I'd die if I had to get up before 8.  I get my 7-8 hours of sleep, but they're from, like, 3-10. ::)  But now that spring is here, I am hoping that will change.  I tend to hibernate in winter.  I blame it on my clapped out kidneys.  Didn't make it to the store?  Sorry, my kidneys are crap.  Didn't get the laundry done?  Sorry, got CKD.  Didn't clean the floor?  Sorry...renally challenged. ::)
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"Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think?  I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken.  Or a duck.  Or whatever they're programmed to be.  You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of last week."
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« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2011, 01:07:35 AM »
For me its the reverse Sugar on steroids ... maybe 4-5 hours sleep tops. Whizzing about with hoovers and lawnmowers ... (I'm very attracted to male machinery  ;) ) and can't switch off my brain, races at 100 miles an hour when on 'puter and my fingers can't keep up!!!
Its like getting younger and younger by the day !!! I'm always up early (with the sun) x

 :bandance;  :bandance;  :bandance;
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2011, 01:11:42 AM »
My body is getting slower, but like you, my mind just goes faster and faster.  Sometimes my mouth can't keep up with my brain, and I end up sounding incoherent.  I love foreign films and always watch them subtitled because I like the sound of the native language, but I get so annoyed because the subtitles are so damned slow!  It's just very odd.

I'm going to bed now.  Hopefully my brain will slow down enough to let me sleep.  But then I have problems with my dreams in that they are so vivid and so emotionally devastating that I wake up exhausted.

Goodnight Sugarlump!!!  I hope you have a wonderful day, and I will probably talk to you at 3AM tomorrow night! 
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"Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think?  I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken.  Or a duck.  Or whatever they're programmed to be.  You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of last week."
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« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2011, 11:16:35 AM »
Quote from: KICKSTART on March 24, 2011, 04:48:37 PM
Rock chick , biker  :kickstart;   (if you look for this smiley its MINE all MINE )  :rofl;  I think im the Dorian Grey of this site .... :rofl; Least i was last time i looked in the attic !!

O la la ! What does the painting in the attic reveal ?
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« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2011, 11:46:03 AM »
I dare not go and look !!!!
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OH NO!!! I have Furniture Disease as well ! My chest has dropped into my drawers !
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« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2011, 02:04:41 PM »
MM permission to steal....renally challenged.?
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im 27 female, crazy weird oddball, some days i feel like im 5 oothers i feel like 95, i tend to get along better with people twice my age, or babies LOL
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« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2011, 02:05:54 PM »
See interesting,interesting...thanks mostly Ladies and a few Gents. I think we have drifted a little of topic but that's what makes it fun. I feel more like a Zombie than a ghost but not to interested in eating your brains. :thumbup;
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« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2011, 02:23:36 PM »
Interested to know why you used the term ghosting?
Did you expect us not to be genuine or honest in our descriptions ??? 8)
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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