Is anyone else on here doing dialysis?? I have been doing it since june and after all these months i thought it would get better, well it really has not. I come out of there completly drained i go home and roll into a ball and just lay there for hours, Its just really turniing into a real nightmare and i may need to make some decisions on continuing this. I cannot even remember a day when i felt "good". I just wish i could get off the machine and feel normal. I feel like a leatch on my family and friends and that s just not my way...............................

 

Buck, hang in there. Though I am not or have not gone through what you are, I think I speak for alot of people here, keep up the fight. Things might be hard on the family right now, but I think the alternative would be much worse on those around you. Besides some one has to be around to make sure that grandson of yours never buys a chevy!

 

Keep fighting Bucky! I had 20 radiation treatments back in 2001. Each one leaves you feeling like you've been up for 3 days straight.

Things will get better.

 

Health problems, SUCK!!!!!

They thunk I was in the beginning stages of chronic renal failure. Sucks, bigtime.

I spent 5 days in the hospital just before Christmas and just got home from spending another 8 days. Hospitals, SUCK, too. (Except for making you feel better)

Worse part about it is that my cherry XLT had to sit in the ER parking lot for 8 days, (7 nites) and I'd have to call security everyday to make sure it wasn't towed away.

i gotta keep a 'hospital bag' packed and in my truck at all times, cuz I never know when I'll have another episode. SUCKS !!!!

As we age, health problems begin popping up. Youth is wasted on the young.

I hate to keep going into the hospital, but it sure beats the alternative.

I feel for you pal, cuz when they thought my kidneys were failing, I felt like SIHT and it kept going on, and on, and on.................

I really feel badly for souls with no health insurance, cuz the 4 days in December cost $40,000 and the 8 days this month was slightly over $200,000 with all the testing they've done on me.

They gave me some ZOFRAM tabs that dissolve under my tongue and that really helps with the nausea and listlessness.

Good luck and hang in there, cuz your people need you around.

 

That is among the worst problem this country faces.
I have full coverage insurance with a low deductible and I still had to pay $140 for a doctors office visit. The only thing that saved me was the insurance covered the $2,400 for a "simple" blood work check.

Prices are out of control, people can't afford to take off work, and id they can they can't afford a doctor.


OP, good luck man. I can't stand needles (so much that I let the dentist drill/fill my front teeth once with no numbing) and I had a IV once that made me sicker than the reason I was in the hospital for.

 

I couldnt imagine having to pay to see a doctor or go to the hospital... I get mad when I have to pay the 5 bucks to park

Buck hang in the bud!. One of my good friend's wife is 26 and has to go to dialysis 3 times a week for 5 hours each time.

 

Hang in there Bucky.....Keep fighting on!

 

Keep plugging away -- as my old man used to say, "The graveyards are full of people who would gladly trade what they got for what you got!"

 

Buck,

I dont know you apart from the posts on this forum. But I can honestly say reading your posts have given me a chuckle every now and then. Not many people are able to have that sort of effect on others. You seem like a genuine human being and I hope all this works out for you.

Keep posting and update us.

 

Buck

I am a new guy on here and I hope you don't mind me throwing my 2 bits in. I am sorry to see anyone going through what you are. I really do hope you get some good days soon. I have been fortunate so far to have avoided a major illness like yours so in some ways I can't really relate on that level. But I have been on the other side as perhaps you have as well.

Can we talk about how you said you may need to make some decisions and your feeling like a burden to your family and friends? Nobody gets through this life alone. Everyone needs help sometime. I can assure you that your friends and family don't consider you a burden. Anything but actually.

You have helped your family in ways that you will never know. Have you always provided and cared for them? Have you ever gave them a shoulder to lean on? Have you ever picked them up when they were down? Was it a burden to you? No, I don't think so. You were happy to do it and it made you feel good, didn't it? You have done so much for them and they want to help you now. Let them. Don't take that away from them.

Dave

 

Buck - is self-dialysis at home not an option?

 

Hang in there man.

 

First thanks to you all for a kick in the azz i needed to be reminded of some things and you all did that. It sure does not pay to be sick as i sold the .50 cal to pay for medical stuff. My heart sank as i watched it pull out of my driveway... I kept 1 amour piercing bullet as a keepsake.. I wish no man sickness as it really sucks *** and drains you........... Again thanks
I have looked into home "D" but man when i think of the burden that would place on my wife (having to stick me) and you have to do it 5 days a week 2 hrs a day. Still thinking... you guys

 

any man watching any of his guns pull away no longer in his possession will make him sick to his stomach. Hang in there, i have been on the side the rest of your family is several times and im only 15. I'm new here as well, but i hope to see many more posts from you man. Get well bud!

 

I don't know you, but I'm betting you've spent a lot of your life helping other people out. Now that you're going through a rough time, there's nothing wrong w/ accepting a little payback for all that help.

Good Luck to you!