hi all, i know it has been a few weeks since my last blog post, but i have been a little bit pissed off for the last week. For three months i have been enduring this catherer with hemo, and finally i became comfortable and accepted this temporary way of dialyzing, but my catherer was starting to give me problems in the last two weeks, and i was told that i would have to have my time changed to a later put on time, some bullshit about there isn't an RN available to administer the necessary meds to get my catherer functioning with a blood flow of 400 at the time when i come in for treatment, so they changed my start time to 6:15 AM, i have no problem with this new time, as it will give me a little more time to sleep. I come in to treatment last tuesday, do the usual take my weight, and then i walk over to my usual chair, but only to find someone else in my seat, well you know i began to rant and rave, and just cause a commotion, but before i could elevate my concerns (about why this man is sitting in my chair, and already hooked up as well), a PCT (patient care tech) comes over to me, and informs me not only that my time was changed, but my chair as well. You could imagine that i wasn't too pleased with this chair change, as i had become so comfortable and relax with my two neighbors, although the man to my left, recently received the blessing of a cadaver kidney, and that is wonderful for him, but at the same time, i can't help but be a little envious of him, because i wish it was me, but all in all, i wished him all the best on his new blessing and most importantly longevity with his new blessing. Betty, an elderly woman on my right, we became very well acquainted, we would joke, and chat while we were both having our treatment. Now, i am at the end and next to a real nice guy, who is also a member of the church i am a member at, we chatted some, but when he would go to sleep, he would snore, and this very much annoyed me. I put up with it for a week. On last Saturday, my daughter accompanied me to the unit, and she was happy about the new time, she also chatted up my new neighbor, and as they were talking, i discovered we had a something in common, he lived in Long Beach for quite a few years, before relocating to the bay area, as i did. We conversated for about hour into treatment, about places that we both frequent at one point, while living in Long Beach, he was so excited about talking about Long Beach, that this man, was practically coming out of his seat with excitement, and a tech told him he needed to sit back, because he was causing the alarms to go off, so i guess he got a little angry, and decided to end our conversation and then he was off to sleep, and snoring as usual, so this time, i was prepared for him, i brought my MP3 player, and listen to music the rest of the treatment session, because there is nothing on the tube on saturdays, but cartoons of such. I decided that since this is temporary, that i would just accept this new change and make the best of my new chair. I do miss sitting next to Betty, but i guess it is all good. Things have changed tremendously since my previous ten year run on hemo, it seem to me, that we had more patient privleges back then, and maybe this is a policy of Davita, since they took over. Even since Davita took over, we don't have the great cable programming, as we had when we were TRC (Total Renal Care). This cable program that we have now, there is about maybe eight stations, not even worth viewing. I remember when i was on dialysis previously, we even had three shopping networks, along with lifetime, tnt, tbs, espn, we, oxygen, BBC, PBS,etc. etc., and many other stations, so we were being well entertained at that time. I feel that they should provide some better tv programming, but what can i say, davita, is truly cheap, just taking over all these units, and changing everything, cutting corners of such, to me they don't care about the patients comfort and satisfaction, dialyzing at their unit. I finally have an appt. for counsultation with the surgeon tommorrow, i will keep you posted on when i will have my surgery and to finally return to PD. Well that is it for now, until my next blog, take care and all the best to all my followers.
Glo
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