My life with dialysis and kidney disease
dialysis
Moose is in Moscow!
Jul 19th
Ok, so more importantly than the other kidney stuff I have to rant about is the news that my brother Christian and his wife Cara are adopting another child! They received their referral last week and are currently in Moscow getting acquainted with their new son. For those who don’t already know, they adopted a lovely little girl from China a few years ago (and for some reason decided that two wasn’t enough…).
They will probably travel back in several weeks time to begin the process of bringing him home, which may involve several more weeks spent in Russia. Needless to say my wife’s family is happy to have another Russian joining the ranks, and I’m looking forward to being an uncle yet again to their third child.
Check out mooseblog (my brother’s blog) for pictures, and daily updates.
Forum Facelift
Jun 9th
Hello all,
Just a quick update to let you all know that the forum has had a facelift. Along with upgrading to the newest stable version of phpbb2, I’ve also added some mods to help me, the admin better keep track of all the people who aren’t posting.
I’ve had a rash of people joining lately who leave a bogus URL in their profile, and who have weird names like “wwrzd7″. The URL’s go nowhere, so I don’t see how it’s spam. It’s puzzling – none of them have contributed, and none respond to emails of pm’s. Today I finally deleted a bunch of them, but I still don’t know why they’re there to begin with.
Anyway, I can now delete large numbers of inactive users very easily. Don’t worry, those of you whom I know are active were saved from this deletion, and anyone else who answered the mass email.
Have a great weekend – I expect to see loads of new content when I return!
Awesome Dialysis Patients Pt. 2
Jun 7th
Recently I decided that I was going to start keeping track of Awesome Dialysis Patients – henceforth referred to as ADP’s.
(As I begin collecting these, you will be able to see all by filtering for the category “adp” )
Well here we are with another.
Bruce Schultz
Mr. Schultz has my utmost respect. He is celebrating 35 years on hemodialysis today.
No transplants, no PD, and if I remember correctly he got 34 years out of his first fistula!
Not only is Bruce a motivation and inspiration through his continual contribution to the DS Support List, but he is proof that dialysis patients can thrive rather than merely survive.
We are not defined by our illness, or its treatment – and it’s awesome to see someone not just saying this, but living it every day.
Thanks for your numerous insights Bruce, and your continued dedication to education and support of those in the “same boat”.
You are an awesome dialysis patient, and I salute you.
Lil Update – Final (we hope)
May 31st
Well, we had a nasty storm the other night, and things look grim for the birdies.
The “West Wing” has we have begun to call it is vacated, and there are broken eggs on the ground. It’s unclear to us whether the storm caused this, or a predator finding its way into the nest after our addition of a chair to the front stoop.
Mama bird appears to have left for good though – I haven’t seen her in two days, and feel like maybe I should leave all this lovey-dovey bird stuff behind, and begin the task of throwing away their home, and cleaning all of their fecal matter off of our siding.
Awesome Dialysis Patients Pt. 1
May 26th
I once wrote about why I’m awesome as a dialysis patient. It was meant tongue in cheek of course (I would never admit to being so awesome).
I’ve been thinking recently though – there are a lot of real “awesome dialysis patients” (or ADP’s as I will begin calling them).
I think I’m going to start keeping track. To be clear, people might be an ADP for various reasons, not just because of their fortitude or ability to tell a dialysis joke, but for any reason I deem “awesome”.
Bill Peckham
I’ve mentioned this man’s name before – and will again in the future I’m certain. This is a true ADP. Bill’s ambitious goal is to visit 50 different countries – wait for it -
…
while on dialysis.
Wow
Nor is this ambitious goal overly ardent; Bill has already visited 5 different continents, and has kept track of many of his adventures via pictures and writing in his blog.
Bill blogs at Global Dialysis, and has recently been featured in an educational dialysis video.
a great video for any patients interested in home modalities
Bill has done an amazing job of keeping his head up, and remaining active in the “kidney community”. He is an amazing support to people through his contributions to the dialysis_support list, and is inspiring and educating people daily through his willingness to share his knowledge and experience selflessly.
Kudos to you Bill – you are truly a role model for many of us.
Keep smilin!
