Was not expecting it to be great (well, except in that it's a medical thing that good for you and all), but glad to hear it's not that bad.
Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!
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It's the needle. Not a fan of needles. And the one they jam into you for dialysis is the biggest they commonly use. Except it's not one, it's two of them.
Now I feel kinda petty for wanting to have a whinge for driving over 1000km this week.
Feeling really tired all the time. Apparently that's normal when starting hemodialysis, and it should pass in time. I hope it does. It's quite annoying. Getting another EPO shot tomorrow tho, that should help. Anyway, kind of getting used to the sessions. Not fond of the needles, my left arm is sort of starting to look like a heroin addicts, and it does soak up a lot of time. Luckily my job is like 95% in front of a computer screen, so I can just take along my laptop and work from the hospital, since I have to stay put for 4 hours anyway. Albeit mostly one-handed, which is rather inconvenient. Also looking forward to when I'm allowed to drive again.
Hope you get as used to it as you have to, but that you don't have to get that used to it.
And you have to work whie they're doing it?!
This basically qualifies for a crosspost in the "it's okay to be angry at capitalism" thread.
its not so much that i have to work, but that i can and am willing to, mostly because its an easy way to fill those four hours.
So here I am, waiting for surgery on my av fistula because it is not as ready for dialysis as previously thought, even tho two weeks ago it got a full checkup and was declared good to go. I am very happy with this situation. Also my left arm has gone from only kinda looking like a heroin addicts, to entirely looking like a heroin addicts.
It is with great pleasure I can report that having an artery widened fookin hurts.
So, they put you on dialysis, then took you off because they jumped the gun, then they cleaned your pipes? Are you good to go for a while?
I'm hoping this series of events aligns with what you wanted to happen at least.
Oh no, they didn't take me off dialysis. They fixed my fistula and half an hour later I was hooked up to the machine. Only two hours tho, since tomorrow morning I have regular session scheduled. But yes, should be good now.
Not really. So far it has only been a reduction in quality of life. Got an EPO shot yesterday tho, aka magic feel-good juice.
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I can think of no way to comfort you except to point out that "fistula" sounds like a fetish porn take-off of Dracula.
"I vant to fist your" and I'm not going to finish that.
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That's shitty dude, I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with this. With any luck the dialysis gets better for you - a friend of mine was able to get set up with home dialysis after a while and she didn't love having to do it but at least it was easier for her.
Valtteri Bottas is auctioning off the helmet he wore during the Australian GP. I was ready to bid a healthy few hundred dollars, but last I saw, we're up to over $28,000. Fuck me. If I ever want a pieces of authentic, F1 race-used memorabilia, I'm going to have to jump on the track during a race, hopefully survive the impact, then pray that the team lets me take the signed front wing as a settlement for my recklessness.
If you don't survive, bits of you will count as memorabilia for the entire crowd.
Doubt my bits would pull down $28,000 at auction, though. F1 is a cruel mistress between the demanding hours and high expense for the more intimate fan experience.
So I took a week off of work to, in part, get some spring cleaning done, and part of that was to have some junk removed- specifically, four chairs of various descriptions and a window air-conditioner unit. So I called up a local junk-removal business; he had to push the appointment back by a day because of various issues including traffic (traffic around here is a nightmare, so nothing but understanding from me) and arrived today.
He then proceeded to yeet every last one of those chairs off of my four-foot-high stoop like the sidewalk was made of rubber. All of the chairs (except for the one wooden one) shattered, scattering pieces everywhere and making enough noise for my neighbor to come out and see what the hell was going on; I'm pretty sure the guy cleaned up at least most of the pieces, but I think I saw a caster wheel making a run for the wooded lot across the street.
I mean, fucking hell. I know it's junk but show some respect for the neighborhood!
He then proceeded to yeet every last one of those chairs off of my four-foot-high stoop like the sidewalk was made of rubber. All of the chairs (except for the one wooden one) shattered, scattering pieces everywhere and making enough noise for my neighbor to come out and see what the hell was going on; I'm pretty sure the guy cleaned up at least most of the pieces, but I think I saw a caster wheel making a run for the wooded lot across the street.
I mean, fucking hell. I know it's junk but show some respect for the neighborhood!
Without wanting to make light of poor chimpzy's condition, anal fistulas are, IIRC, the most common form of the problem.
Dental healthcare I'd no idea how fucked it was in UK here till recently trying to find a first appointment in a new area for the 1st time in many years. It's now literally impossible to find any NHS spot, they all say they won't accept any new patients, and even trying to find private is coming up with either not accepting new people or charging £100 deposit just for an initial check that won't be for another few months anyway. Fucking Tories are draining this country of anything helpful to anyone but their own filthy rich selves.
Standard operating procedure then?