May 2010
16 posts
The Search Is ON!!!
My mom has been inspired! Making me more inspired! She is contacting news papers, friends and family to help me find a kidney.. PuT ARE BEST FOOT FIRST and SEARCH!
- On a side note… my line will not have to get changed just yet.. today it worked! well!! Very exciting.. today was a great day!!!
xo MJ
Hospitals
Usually the feeling is cold. Not winter cold but more of a sterile cold. To most people that is the feeling.
Halls, doors, silence. Halls , doors, beeping. Crying. Laughing. Praying. Beeping. A hospital has many sounds… all unusual to the normal person.Not to me.
Home. Safety. Peace. My school. My church. My life. I would not change a thing.
As much as dialysis is taking a toll on...
Real life, why does it have to be so surreal?
Every so often i sit back and wonder.. am i dreaming? is this i nightmare of some sort.. The reality of it all is when life is good we never question or doubt what is happening around us. We enjoy, live and even thrive with anything positive. When life is bad however, we question. Why?! Because we can, we live in a society where we are given the option of questions, doubting and challenging the...
When life gives you lemons.....
So as the saying goes… when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. RIGHT?!?
Well i was told recently to take that saying and apply it to my life. ..
Now it is time to think. How do i apply that. How do i make the best of this!? I want to be able to come and help people and myself at the same time. I want to feel the way i did before i was on dialysis. I want to feel happy again not just...
Reality check.. Code Blue
“bbeeep……code blue Gerard dialysis unit, code blue”
running nurses, rushing doctors, people from left right and center. “beep….. code blue Gerard dialysis unit, code blue”.
stretcher, air tank, tubes and more….
“BEEp…CODE BLUE GERED DIALYSIS UNIT, CODE BLUE”
Reality. Fear.
For those who want to know, code blue is when someone...
Herbert.
For those of you who don’t know, I am in a full time relationship with Herbert- He is great.. stresses me out, takes up most of my time, makes odd noises…. and much more…
Did I mention he is a dialysis machine? No!? Well now you know. I am in a full time relationship with a machine
xo MJ
GIVE A KIDNEY! BECAUSE YOU CAN!
How many times in our lives do we wish to be able to save someone’s life, change someone’s life, affect someone’s life. ALWAYS! So what is stopping you ?
xo mj
Dialy-=-- what!?
I am going to pretend i am at a photo shoot today to help pass the time ..
DIALY—- WHAT!—- NOW POSE! and strut. and pose! .. ok maybe no strutting but we can still pretend.
Patterns
Let me point out a pattern.
Dialysis days. SUN SHINING!
Non Dialysis days. GREY and most of the time raining.. REALLY! HONESTLY ! WHY?
This is so sarcastic. Horrible.
Anyways moving on, still getting fevers but not as bad, able to break them.. started eating again too! All good signs. There is a saying in spanish “enfermo que come no muere” - sick person who eats does not...
Google
I just googled “how much does it cost to be on dialysis ” oh my god! Ready for this……without any extra drugs or usage (three days a week for three or four hours) ….drum roll please! 4500$!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now for you math geniuses out there you would know what it means but for use norms here is the break down:
1 day= $4500
1 week=$13500 (at 3 days a week)
1...
HOME!
Shortest time spent in emerg ever… wow!
Ill v blog in the morning.. i really need sleep..
xo MJ
In emerg yet again
Fever at it’s finest. The kind that won’t even go away with tylenol. So the past 24hours I have had fevers on and off, however this morning I thought I was doing better and went on an Ikea adventure with a friend. Little did I know I was giving the fever full strength by not taking tylenol. So I have had astronomically high fevers and along with that not able to break it. So here I...
Waking up early… love it..
