Posts Tagged ‘transplant’
THE CALL PART TWO
Literally, this is what I writing shortly before 11:40PM tonight… Just a vent before a scheduled 5-day workweek. Dear Universe, please engineer a situation that provides me with a donor kidney from the Charlotte area ASAP. This doing hemodialysis three times a week [Read More]
Divorcing Duke
I quit working there back in November, and now I am symbolically leaving their kidney transplant program. I have now officially had my 1169 days of “waiting” on Duke’s transplant list transferred to the medical center that’s in the big city in the [Read More]
CIGNAture Service
Oh, CIGNA. More crap from you. “Welcome to the CIGNA HealthCare Transplant Case Management program. Thank you for taking the time to talk to me about your health care needs. As we discussed in your call…” We didn’t discuss jack, because I [Read More]
My kidneys as drawn in Microsoft Paint
I saw CT scan images of my kidneys today during a visit with my potential nephrectomy surgeon. I was pleasantly surprised when he told me he could laproscopically remove one or both of my kidneys despite their extreme mass. They apparently have some quite-advanced tools for [Read More]
August 5 rapid blogging: dialysis
I’ll continue to write relatively little about dialysis, compared to my ongoing tirades about nocturnal dialysis. I know people would be happy to hear that my new shift is going so much better than the old one. It’s not. It’s going a little bit better. [Read More]
Craigslist for a kidney
I know you mean well, but, no *****, I will not ask for a kidney on Craigslist. I don’t care if Duke would do a transplant from a stranger, although I’m pretty sure they won’t; there are legitimate reasons to have a policy against this. I have an [Read More]
778 days on the transplant list
I tend not to want to think about dialysis or my kidney disease when I’m not actually at dialysis, since I’m actually at dialysis for approximately 27 hours per week. I just want to do a quick catch-up on transplant news. (I don’t know why I feel the need [Read More]
Here’s where I ask for a kidney
I’ll put a happy face (well, two happy faces) on a pessimistic post. My one strong lead for giving me a new kidney in 2010 is not going to pan out. I have a non-blood relative who generously and painstakingly went through the required battery of tests of several [Read More]
New insurance
from hr to me date Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:07 PM subject Blue Cross ID David, your Blue Cross unique ID number is xxxx xxxxxxxx. The group number is xxxxxxx. I am very relieved to have had this taken care of. Now…I don’t really know what happens …chances for [Read More]
Reading the fine print (part 2)
The person in HR who could switch my insurance over is not in today and won’t be in until January 4. A particularly unhelpful person in HR left a message for the helpful-but-unavailable person, who had been pretty clear that I could switch insurance, but only before [Read More]
