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Comment by brokenpole on May 21, 2012 at 1:22am

Well the catheder is in and I have had my first two sessions of dialysis. This week I start at the outpatient center on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in the afternoon.

I picked the afternoon so I could work early in the morning go to dialysis and then go home and crash if that is needed.

Everyone tells me that I am going to start feeling better. Okay...I am ready!

Comment by smokinbeaver on April 14, 2012 at 1:33pm

Hi Cora, IHateDialysis.com is a great site. Its been helpfull reading people's posts in the different forums. Unfortunately I have had no luck trying to register with them. First they accepted me, then we got emails because Sparky (brokenpole) tried to sign up to. They have a problem with accepting people with the same ISP address. We have different computers, but have the same cable access so maybe we have the same ISP? Don't know but its frustrating. He is feeling bad this weekend and is scared every single day he is going to have to go to the ER and get hooked up for emergency dialysis. I spent a large part of yesterday afternoon at the ER because our daughter her lives with us has been having asthma attacks and problems and is not getting better. Looking pretty dim here at our house today

Comment by smokinbeaver on April 14, 2012 at 1:28pm

Comment by Cora on April 14, 2012 at 12:17pm

Now that I've had my transplant, I visit their transplant forum. I have found the folks caring and informative. Glad you found some help. I was on hemo for a year so feel free to ask me any questions too.

Comment by smokinbeaver on April 12, 2012 at 9:10pm

Someone here recommend the site "I hate dialysis" and I want to thank them because it is going to be helpfull to me. My husband brokenpole has been to the surgeon and will have an ultrasound done on his arm next week to see about putting a fistula in so it can heal for him to have dialysis at a center. No one, not even our family dr has tried to help us get ready for this. We vaguely have an idea about what to expect. His nephrologist gave him a booklet, but its so generic its not very usefull. This site http://www.ihatedialysis.com/forum/ has been a lot of help as I have been reading through the forums. We are both scared and not sleeping very well trying to take it all in. Thanks guys

Comment by Cora on April 6, 2012 at 4:05pm

An excellent site to learn about dialysis is IHateDialysis.com. There are all sorts of forums about different modalities (including transplant) and a lot of folks hang out there. You will get some good into there. Take a peak.

Comment by smokinbeaver on April 5, 2012 at 6:21am

Hi guys, I am Sparky's wife (brokenpole) and thanks for your responses Cora. I know our oldest daughter would not be able to be a match, but my youngest daughter has his exact blood type and I am O neg. I believe Laura and I both would consider donating, but Laura has asthma pretty bad and no health insurance. Main thing is I think its way too soon to consider transplant. We are all still in shock here. Not lived here in Vicksburg very long and don't even have any friends I can talk to. I do know that I can adjust to this new bump in our life together and will do whatever we have to do to help Sparky be happy and comfortable. Our oldest daughter lives nearby, and our youngest daughter Laura lives with us. In fact, she is on TU with us as well. We are all scared about whats going to happen to him. All 3 kids (our son lives in Michigan with his wife)are worried for him and in shock. Just trying to find out as much as I can about dialysis, but there seems to be no way of knowing how disrupting and upsetting it will be till we go through it. Thanks again.

Sharon

Comment by Cora on April 5, 2012 at 6:05am

Hi again Sparky. It's a tough road but you will be ok. Did you know that there are dialysis cruises?

I hope you are seriously considering accepting the kidney from your daughter. It is often hard to accept such a gift, but think of it this way. You would rush into a burning building to save her, wouldn't you? Well, she is doing the same thing for you, only giving a kidney is much, much safer.

How are you feeling? If you feel ok they won't slap you into the hospital and get things done on an emergency basis. It is important to get it done, but they will schedule you. It's less scary that way too.

Take care.

Comment by brokenpole on April 5, 2012 at 2:21am

Cora, you dont know how much I appreciate your kind words. Male or not I cannot even talk to anyone about this right now without getting all teary eyed.

The worst part, my wife and I had planned on taking a cruise in December for our 40th anniversary.

I am going to be getting hemodialysis. I have been told by the kidney doctor that I would not be a candidate for PD.

My eldest daughter wants to be tested to see if she can donate a kidney. With all of my other health issues (heart disease for one) I do not know if I would be a candidate for a transplant or not. Haven't even discussed that yet.

The thing that strikes me as odd is they keep saying that my lab results are critical yet I see no real urgency to get me hooked up to a machine. I guess I just figured they would toss my fat butt in the hospital, put in the central port in the shoulder and start the treatments and while in the hospital do the fistulas. Guess not.

So thanks for the info. I will be asking more questions.

Sparky

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