Chatterbox Hyena Thread (Everyone is Welcome)

[funnygarcia]

working on my photos still,.. doobie doobie dooo.....

 

[Mkgaapril]

sorry, got a phone call....go figure

 

[Mkgaapril]

i started on the dvd I am making of our trip...now that I can do...I even purchased disney music on the trip just for it.....

DH was so cute with the baby on the trip...she wanted for nothing...even had to be stopped from buying things for her that would choke her...he even tried to use her to get a cast member to trade a pin....(dork)...he busted up crowds to get her to the front to see the parades...that was funny...

 

[Alex2kMommy]

The good news: DS4 went potty all by himself this morning!
The bad news: DS4 pooped on the carpet, OMG!!! WTH???
The ugly news: Gag! I had to clean it up!

The good news: DH is home today
The bad news: He is NOT taking it easy
The ugly news: He insists on going to the office tomorrow. And yes, we've shared words about it.

The good news: Because DH is home, I can run a few errands without kids!
The bad news: The gal that cuts/colors my hair is not working today, darn it! So I will see her on Saturday instead.
The Bonus news: But I am going back to Storables to pick up some containers for the kids I had them decorate! I can't wait to see them!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Oh. And my lesson of the day: Always always check yourself in the mirror before you set foot out of the house.

I took DS4 to the clinic today. Met with the receptionist, the nurse, the dermatologist, the scheduler. Then we made a Starbucks run, so chatted a bit with the gal there. I was in such a good mood I bought a humongous cinnamon roll for the boys to share, a nonfat mocha for DH and my usual. On the way home, stopped at a light, I checked the mirror and O. M. G!!! I had a freakin' HUGE whitehead on my chin!!! How disgusting!

I told DH about it when I got home, and he said, "Oh yeah, I saw that..." Aaaarrrrrggggghhhh!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I did learn that lesson with the job-interview-with-the-booger-hangin'-out-my-nose, but HECK! That was 15 years ago. I guess it was a good refresher.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

OK, off to make lunch for the boys and then get on with my errands. Catch ya later!

 

[Mkgaapril]

ok, i am putting the music on my pc as we speak.......its a cute cd....

 

[funnygarcia]

Loved the Good Bad Ugly of your day there Alex..

The poop on carpet episode.. ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Hubby not behaving-- time to break out the "big stick" as Staley says. :yes:

 

[funnygarcia]

okay, mini crisis averted-- I really didn't need a flood in my bedroom thanks much dear! Didn't realize that we needed a drain line during the priming-- water spraying out and making a mess.. eeeek, run hose to bathroom to drain.

Photos as promised.

Supplies:
We have this huge closet in our entry hall of the apt, big doublke fold doors. Remeber my post about being happy to find a stoarge locker downstairs? you will see why!

 

[funnygarcia]

Boxes, boxes, boxes.. did I mention?? Boxes!

And a cat that loves to climb

 

[funnygarcia]

A few other things we need for this adventure:

Centrifuge (I get to play with his blooooooooood- muahahhahaha) to spin his lab draws each month.

This is what the nurse calls "Liquid Gold" , teeny tiny vials of EPOGEN to re-build red blood cells. Kidney failure makes you chronically anemic, he has one shot each week (tiny needle in his belly fat) 0.60 ml which is a big dose, but tiny amt of fluid.

 

[funnygarcia]

This is what his cartridge looks like, tubing and dialyzor (his "kidney" is the white large cylinder on the right)

 

[funnygarcia]

Supplies in our bedroom, ready to use!

It's a changing table, worked perfectly!

Introducing the NxStage machine!

awwwww isn't it cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!

(for being a hunk of 75 pounds of metal and plastic worth about $20,000)

 

[funnygarcia]

There are 5 bags hanging of diasylate fluid, this is what it used to wash his blood. Each bag weighs 11.5 pounds

Longer bag , hanging below the diasylate bags, is saline. Primes the tubing at start and flushes back his blood after treatment.

The cylinder (in it's metal holder) on the left side is the dialyzor "kidney". It's red right now. Blood flowing from his artery line passes thru the filter on one side, diasylate on the other side.. using the process of osmosis and diffusion.. Do you remember your high school chemistry class?? The fluid draws off the toxins in his blood and lets the rest of it flow back and eventually the machine pumps the clean blood into his vein.

 

[dizzyami]

 

[funnygarcia]

Hey dizzy!

I'm giving a crash course on home hemodialsyis.. enjoy!

 

[funnygarcia]

And here he is Mr Wonderful himself!

All comfy in his new chair-- can I just say.. I love our trainer nurse-- she somehow snagged a new chair from Slumberland for us.. delivered it herself-- she's an ANGEL

Here is his acess site, red clamp is arterial blood, blue clamp is venous.
Green clamp is the line that attaches him to the diasylate/kidney

 

[dizzyami]

Hey dizzy!

I'm giving a crash course on home hemodialsyis.. enjoy!

 

[funnygarcia]

Now if you recall.. the diasylate solution removed the "bad stuff" fomr hubby, but then where does it go?

Down the drain line .. or "pee line" (with it's yellow clamps, of course! )... and into the sewer it goes.

This line starts in our bedroom, down the hall and into the bathroom. For those of us being "urolizors" (as in having kidney function.. it's a dialysis joke) .. NO Privacy!

Can't close the door in the bathroom-- it will block his pee line. BEEP BEEP BEEP

argh!

Close it most of the way, the cat insists she must join you pushing the door WIDE open-- and stare at you while you pee.