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« Reply #1250 on: January 18, 2012, 09:32:57 AM »
Quote from: Rain on January 18, 2012, 04:52:13 AM
Not sure how I was to react to this one.  I was at in center and I am one of the 2 self care patients.   They sat me in a different area then usual so I didn't recognize the people.  I was setting up my needles and tapes and getting the machine ready, and myself ready to needle. when the guy next to me asks if I'm a nurse.  I said no but I'm self care.  HE said  oh but that's the nurse job why would you want to take their job away from them.

Really really..

Apparently that guy doesn't realize that the nurse gets paid the same whether she (or he) does 5 patients or 3 patients that shift.  Really, the more patients who are self-care, the easier the nurse's job is.  Wow...
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« Reply #1251 on: January 22, 2012, 06:00:55 AM »
Isn't it sad that this thread started in 2005 by LifeOnHold (who has since passed on) is still so alive and active?  Why is that?  The ignorance that we have to face (even from the medical people) is astounding!!  It seems this thread will last as long as we have an IHD!  They keep the ignorance coming!
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« Reply #1252 on: January 22, 2012, 11:58:35 AM »
Quote from: Bajanne on January 22, 2012, 06:00:55 AM
Isn't it sad that this thread started in 2005 by LifeOnHold (who has since passed on) is still so alive and active?  Why is that?  The ignorance that we have to face (even from the medical people) is astounding!!  It seems this thread will last as long as we have an IHD!  They keep the ignorance coming!
  That is so sad but true.
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« Reply #1253 on: January 22, 2012, 02:10:16 PM »
the sad part is that ppl will continue to say ignorant and stupid things... and be clueless about dialysis even though its been around for how long now
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« Reply #1254 on: January 22, 2012, 04:17:59 PM »
heck, its like that for many diseases and disorders... look at mental illness, or even aids... stupid people will always be around. its sad.
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« Reply #1255 on: January 22, 2012, 05:44:45 PM »
The old saying 'ignorance is bliss' is so true. (I wish I was ignorant about some diseases and treatments that I know too much about.)
How lucky some people are to be healthy and ignorant.
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« Reply #1256 on: January 22, 2012, 06:27:54 PM »
One of my biggest regrets is that when I was healthy and ignorant, I didn't fully appreciate it.
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« Reply #1257 on: January 23, 2012, 02:45:15 AM »
stop regretting, just a waist of time. Just be happy you've once had a timet that you were healty and could be ignorant. So many people didn't even have that.
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« Reply #1258 on: January 23, 2012, 05:32:34 AM »
  I had a liver transplant on 3/22/2005 and when people would ask me about it you would be amazed at how many of them said to me "how long were you on dialysis before you got your liver?"  :o
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« Reply #1259 on: January 23, 2012, 08:08:22 AM »
I gotta say that before I found out i had CKD I had no clue about it.  I didn't know what dialysis was, not even a hint.   :shy;

Soooooo I just let it slide when people say ignorant things about it.   But thanks to you all now I have some good comebacks to say if it should arise  :rofl;
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« Reply #1260 on: January 23, 2012, 02:29:49 PM »
heh so this weekend i hung out with a friend, who had fixed me a rather large mountain dew, i did drink all of it. then she said want some more, I said no thanks im on that silly fluid restriction. to which she said, "Oh yeah! Do you want some water?"   ???
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« Reply #1261 on: January 23, 2012, 05:53:01 PM »
Quote from: gothiclovemonkey on January 23, 2012, 02:29:49 PM
heh so this weekend i hung out with a friend, who had fixed me a rather large mountain dew, i did drink all of it. then she said want some more, I said no thanks im on that silly fluid restriction. to which she said, "Oh yeah! Do you want some water?"   ???
   :rofl;   :rofl;  Because Mountain Dew isn't fluid!!
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« Reply #1262 on: January 23, 2012, 06:24:13 PM »
Goth that's too funny  :rofl; :rofl;
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« Reply #1263 on: January 24, 2012, 11:20:26 AM »
My husband's brother had a mild heart attack last week...no worries, he is fine and discharged now.  But when he was first admitted, there was some concern about his kidney function.  He told my husband that he probably wouldn't be discharged until he got a kidney transplant.  Now, he knows all about my kidney problems...did he honestly think it was that easy to get a kidney?
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« Reply #1264 on: January 25, 2012, 07:35:34 AM »
Subeat - Wouldn't that be nice....a kidney transplant on order whenever you needed it. I'll take two please!  ;D
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« Reply #1265 on: January 25, 2012, 07:44:25 AM »
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« Reply #1266 on: January 25, 2012, 10:56:05 AM »
I wont be greedy, one will do. Thank you. Will it come by post or Currier.
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« Reply #1267 on: January 25, 2012, 01:38:19 PM »
As long as it doesn't come C.O.D.!   :rofl;
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« Reply #1268 on: February 12, 2012, 10:56:55 AM »
I heard a good one today. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee sent me a new information package with a listing of 24 hour info tapes you can listen to. Out of curiosity, I listened to the one regarding dialysis. They mentioned pd and hemo. Then went on to state "Neither one is painful". Really?! Just how long has the person that wrote this been on D?! Lol!
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« Reply #1269 on: February 12, 2012, 11:21:40 AM »
More to the point, have they actually EVEN done dialysis?
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« Reply #1270 on: February 12, 2012, 03:50:55 PM »
Ha!
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« Reply #1271 on: February 12, 2012, 04:50:12 PM »
I had someone ask me if my liver had failed after I previous told them it was my kidneys. Lol. Shows they care I guess. HAHA
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« Reply #1272 on: February 17, 2012, 05:37:43 PM »
Quote from: Bajanne on January 22, 2012, 06:00:55 AM
Isn't it sad that this thread started in 2005 by LifeOnHold (who has since passed on) is still so alive and active?  Why is that?  The ignorance that we have to face (even from the medical people) is astounding!!  It seems this thread will last as long as we have an IHD!  They keep the ignorance coming!

I restarted it with another thread called "whats the dumbest thing someone has said to you" and got an email from the narrator asking if they could "combined" the two threads (mine and this one) so I said GO ahead!!   :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #1273 on: March 12, 2012, 10:36:46 PM »
This is a little off topic but in some way it runs along the same lines... it's just been bothering me and wanted to get some feedback.
My boyfriend has been the sweetest, kindest and understanding person in the 4 years we've been together.  His family has been so...how should I put this?  Insensitive...not there.... clueless on how they affect his life (if any and at all...just a glimpse... we had a son together a year ago... his mother has seen her grandchild once... his brother and sister...never call and when they do they need money, or something...anyway) His father passed away 2 years ago, and it's affected him and his brother a lot, since they were actually very close... however, today...this I feel is true ignorance....

My boyfriend texted his brother to wish him happy birthday.  His brother response was "Let me ask you a question, is it wrong that all I wanted was for Dad to call and wish me a happy birthday, even though he's not here anymore?"  My boyfriend responded " No, sometimes I wish he would call too, or that I could pick up the phone and call him anytime I wanted.  I just wanted to text you and let you know I was thinking about you on your birthday".  His brother's response?? "Yeah, well you're not the call I was waiting for..."
To top it all off... we were going finally go see his sister a few weeks ago, and I had become seriously sick with the flu, so we couldn't make it... now she's not talking to my boyfriend because she feels "I did it on purpose... oh, and I use my ESRD as an excuse!"  WHAT!??? Not once have you visited us!!!

My boyfriend was in tears, and I couldn't even comfort him because he was so angry and upset.  I haven't had anyone be directly ignorant to me lately about D, or ESRD, but this threw me for a loop!  Oh my goodness I want to call his brother and sister and smack them through the phone.... is that possible?!   :Kit n Stik;
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« Reply #1274 on: March 13, 2012, 04:07:58 AM »
I believe they're working on an I-Phone app that will do that. :bandance; :rofl;
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