Dialyzin' Dar

I'm a dialysis patient... will I someday face the same thing if the pharmacist doesn't "believe" in dialysis? I am taking the Pill to regulate an extremely irregular cycle-- thank God I have not run into anyone who refused to fill my prescription. I...

... but in my case, I had nasal staph and was contaminating my catheter every time I hooked up! (No one thought to test me for it before I started PD, but that's a whole 'nother thread! Grrrr!) My technique was excellent, but that didn't matter beca...

We have a noncompliant patient at our unit (comes in late, terminates treatment early) whose doctor is setting up for PD. I did PD for 3 years, and it's difficult even when you're motivated! My question is, why would a doctor recommend home treatmen...

I am a redhead and I had a c-section, no unusual bleeding after it. I have also read the study about redheads experiencing more pain, and my doctors know this already-- I am always given more anesthesia during operations because I have so frequentl...

One day out in the Florida panhandle, a man sees a sign in front of a house: "Talking Dog for Sale." He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard. The man goes into the backyard and sees a black Lab just sitting there. "You...

No, no, in my opinion, it is a given that you tell your children the truth about yourselves and about your relationship to your child. There's such a thing as TOO much 'truth'-- my mother told my sister and I that we were both 'mistakes' and the onl...

I'm on dialysis and have Medicaid, so when anything happens to me-- like when I had a badly sprained ankle-- I get told to go to the ER by the dialysis unit. My nephrologist isn't going to do anything not directly kidney-related, so I have to go to ...

Could you 'deputize' some family members for different things? Like make one in charge of getting more ice water, another in charge of pillow arrangement. Then give them a written list of events that would be 'true' emergencies which they'd need to...

I just went to that site and made an icon... although my hair is nowhere NEAR that red! :) The bangs are feathered back but they had no picture for that. Still, it does sort of look like me.

A few hours after my kidney transplant, a nurse stole my dose of morphine. I'd had three shots of it (one per hour) and I knew that first it burned my arm, then made me nauseous, then started to work. Well, the shot that this nurse gave me didn't d...

My friend Lori experienced a similar problem with her oil company. She kept getting a bill for " 0 dollars and 0 cents." The fifth one came, and it threatened her with shutoff! She called the company and was told, "It's a computer error, and the o...

To me, a good nurse is one who tells me what I can do for myself. That way, I don't tick her off with needless requests and I can start doing small things for myself while I recover. A few seconds' worth of chit-chat is really appreciated, too-- I k...

When bringing your sick child to the ER, please bring the child's siblings, their grandmother, their aunts, and your best friends! There are ALWAYS plenty of seats in the ER waiting room, and the other people waiting will be delighted by the antics ...

I've been a dialysis patient for eight years, and I've noticed that some patients get 'the look of death' about two weeks before they die. Their faces become thin and their energy and mental capacity diminishes. When I see that, I try to spend extr...

I think if you weren't confident in your ability to help that man, the best thing you could have done was exactly what you did-- let a more experienced person help. Well-meaning but inexperienced people often complicate matters. Wondering what you c...

I have low blood sugar after dialysis, even though I am not diabetic. Have you seen this in the patients you take care of? I used to get saline at the end of every treatment, which had little effect on my blood pressure and resulted in my leaving 'h...

The same can be said for the dialysis unit-- people bringing little kids in and letting them wander all over unattended, crawling on the floor, etc. The best one was when a little boy dropped his pacifier on the floor and Mom was about to shove it b...

Well I finally had 2 good sticks for my treatment today-- didn't feel either one. I was in the "3 Needle Club" THREE TIMES in the past two weeks-- and when the 'offending nurse' came in to stick me again at the next treatment, I said, "Oh, no! Not ...

Well I finally had 2 good sticks for my treatment today-- didn't feel either one. I was in the "3 Needle Club" THREE TIMES in the past two weeks-- and when the 'offending nurse' came in to stick me again at the next treatment, I said, "Oh, no! Not ...

I had a lot of heartburn, and my daughter was born with a full head of red hair. I carried really high (under my ribcage) and was told I would have a boy, but I had a girl. How about dreams-- I kept dreaming that I had the baby in minutes, but I end...

I was disappointed when I wasn't allowed to take my gallstones home... I had two of equal size that I was going to have made into cufflinks. My surgeon let me take my first I.J. home... my mother let me hang it on the Christmas tree because it had sa...

I've smelled death in a hospital. I walked past someone's room and this overpowering sweet smell hit me, with an undertone of something rotten. When I passed the room again later, the smell was gone-- no idea if the patient had passed away, or the ...

I'm a dialysis patient, and I've always heard them called dialysis nurses. Regardless of what they're called, that was rude of the nurse to laugh. (Anyway, who'd want to work with THAT witch?)

We asked our nurses at dialysis not to smoke in front of the front door where patients come in, which they stopped doing-- but they still smell like smoke when they come in from break. When a nurse just back from a smoke break is putting your dialys...

"The PCA is working fine and the history shows that it is being used. I bet $100 that the wife is pushing the button when the patient is asleep!" Would that be considered a crime?