Re: My dialysis centre photos

[Guest guest]

Thanks for these photos Pierre!

Cy

My dialysis centre photos

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's me.

Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can click

again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black & white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into the

slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump, some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for these photos Pierre!

Cy

My dialysis centre photos

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's me.

Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can click

again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black & white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into the

slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump, some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

>

>

>

>

> To edit your settings for the group, go to our Yahoo Group

> home page:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> To unsubcribe via email,

> iga-nephropathy-unsubscribe

> Visit our companion website at www.igan.ca. The site is entirely supported

by donations. If you would like to help, go to:

> http://www.igan.ca/id62.htm

>

> Thank you

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for these photos Pierre!

Cy

My dialysis centre photos

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's me.

Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can click

again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black & white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into the

slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump, some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

>

>

>

>

> To edit your settings for the group, go to our Yahoo Group

> home page:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> To unsubcribe via email,

> iga-nephropathy-unsubscribe

> Visit our companion website at www.igan.ca. The site is entirely supported

by donations. If you would like to help, go to:

> http://www.igan.ca/id62.htm

>

> Thank you

>

[Guest guest]

Pierre those photos are very cool. I love black and white pictures, no

matter what the subject they are so full of drama and elegance. Thanks for

taking a picture of your machine too....ya know the thing that scared me

most after my diagnosis is the thought of that machine.

I used to be a nurses aid and worked in a few nursing homes. The last

one I worked at we had two residents who would have in house hemodialysis,

having to monitor them while they were hooked up used to freak me big

time....then when it hit me that I might be that person hooked up to the

machine sometime in the future....well....I freaked. Looking at that photo

brought back those times taking care of the few residents we had on

dialysis, and looking back now with a bit clearer head I realize that

besides having to hook up a few times a week those two people were the most

active ones at the nursing home. The only reason they were there at all was

due to needing dialysis and not being able to get to a center. They both

basically took care of themselves otherwise and lived happy lives. I think

the whole " blood circulating outside the body " thing is what had me so

freaked out when I was working there. If the time ever comes for me I think

I'll be able to face it. ) Thanks again for the neat photos!

Amy

My dialysis centre photos

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's me.

Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can click

again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black & white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into the

slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump, some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

>

>

>

>

> To edit your settings for the group, go to our Yahoo Group

> home page:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> To unsubcribe via email,

> iga-nephropathy-unsubscribe

> Visit our companion website at www.igan.ca. The site is entirely supported

by donations. If you would like to help, go to:

> http://www.igan.ca/id62.htm

>

> Thank you

>

[Guest guest]

Pierre those photos are very cool. I love black and white pictures, no

matter what the subject they are so full of drama and elegance. Thanks for

taking a picture of your machine too....ya know the thing that scared me

most after my diagnosis is the thought of that machine.

I used to be a nurses aid and worked in a few nursing homes. The last

one I worked at we had two residents who would have in house hemodialysis,

having to monitor them while they were hooked up used to freak me big

time....then when it hit me that I might be that person hooked up to the

machine sometime in the future....well....I freaked. Looking at that photo

brought back those times taking care of the few residents we had on

dialysis, and looking back now with a bit clearer head I realize that

besides having to hook up a few times a week those two people were the most

active ones at the nursing home. The only reason they were there at all was

due to needing dialysis and not being able to get to a center. They both

basically took care of themselves otherwise and lived happy lives. I think

the whole " blood circulating outside the body " thing is what had me so

freaked out when I was working there. If the time ever comes for me I think

I'll be able to face it. ) Thanks again for the neat photos!

Amy

My dialysis centre photos

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's me.

Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can click

again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black & white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into the

slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump, some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

>

>

>

>

> To edit your settings for the group, go to our Yahoo Group

> home page:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> To unsubcribe via email,

> iga-nephropathy-unsubscribe

> Visit our companion website at www.igan.ca. The site is entirely supported

by donations. If you would like to help, go to:

> http://www.igan.ca/id62.htm

>

> Thank you

>

[Guest guest]

Pierre those photos are very cool. I love black and white pictures, no

matter what the subject they are so full of drama and elegance. Thanks for

taking a picture of your machine too....ya know the thing that scared me

most after my diagnosis is the thought of that machine.

I used to be a nurses aid and worked in a few nursing homes. The last

one I worked at we had two residents who would have in house hemodialysis,

having to monitor them while they were hooked up used to freak me big

time....then when it hit me that I might be that person hooked up to the

machine sometime in the future....well....I freaked. Looking at that photo

brought back those times taking care of the few residents we had on

dialysis, and looking back now with a bit clearer head I realize that

besides having to hook up a few times a week those two people were the most

active ones at the nursing home. The only reason they were there at all was

due to needing dialysis and not being able to get to a center. They both

basically took care of themselves otherwise and lived happy lives. I think

the whole " blood circulating outside the body " thing is what had me so

freaked out when I was working there. If the time ever comes for me I think

I'll be able to face it. ) Thanks again for the neat photos!

Amy

My dialysis centre photos

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's me.

Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can click

again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black & white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into the

slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump, some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

>

>

>

>

> To edit your settings for the group, go to our Yahoo Group

> home page:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> To unsubcribe via email,

> iga-nephropathy-unsubscribe

> Visit our companion website at www.igan.ca. The site is entirely supported

by donations. If you would like to help, go to:

> http://www.igan.ca/id62.htm

>

> Thank you

>

[Guest guest]

OK, I never want to see one of those up close.

MArtha

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at

the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics

in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's

me. Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can

click again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black

& white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but

great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture

of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump

rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's

plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the

round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my

blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into

the slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there

it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a

fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump,

some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood

actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

[Guest guest]

OK, I never want to see one of those up close.

MArtha

> Hi everyone

>

> I took a few black & white flashless photos from my usual chair at

the

> dialysis centre a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe you would be

> interested in seeing what it looks like. So, I've uploaded 3 pics

in the

> Photo section of our Yahoo site:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iga-nephropathy/

>

> Click on Photos, and then, look for a folder named Pierre. That's

me. Click

> on the thumnails to get the picture you want, and then, you can

click again

> on each picture itself to get a larger size.

>

> If you're interested in such things, I used a vintage 50 year old

Zeiss-Ikon

> Contina 35mm camera (it's as old as I am), and Kodak TC400CN black

& white

> film. No exposure meter and everything as manual as it gets, but

great fun

> to use. Nobody in the photos is recognizable. To take the picture

of my

> dialysis machine, I just held out the camera from my chair.

>

> On the dialysis machine photo, you can see where it says my pump

rate is

> 400. Higher than that and I start getting palpitations, but that's

plenty

> high enough for a good treatment. Just below that, the pump is the

round

> thing in the middle. You can see the tubing on the left, with my

blood in

> it. It then wraps around that round pump thing, then it feeds into

the slim

> cylinder at the far right of the photo. That cylinder is the actual

> artificial kidney where the blood is filtered, and then from there

it goes

> right back into my arm. The rest of the machine is really just a

fancy

> supporting structure for the artificial kidney. It's just a pump,

some

> transducers (sensors), alarms, a computer and what-not. No blood

actually

> goes through the machine itself, only through the tubing and the

artificial

> kidney (what they call a dialyzer).

>

> Pierre

>

> Pierre

[Guest guest]

Hi Amy.

I have to tell you how happy I am that my photos help make you think back,

and ahead like that, in a positive way. I'm not really a photographer, just

an occasional amateur, but anytime a picture can generate thought like that,

to my mind, any photographer has to be happy with that.

I just came back from a ride on my racing bike. I rode to a beach and around

some beautiful parks we have here, and few residential streets. I love it.

It's a beautiful summer day (well, I guess that's late spring), about 27

degrees Celsius. Just perfect. I sat at the beach for a while soaking up the

sun, and watching the windsurfers, and a few female sunbathers on the side

I didn't ride at the same clip I might have 5 years ago, but still, not a

soul who saw me would guess I'm a dialysis patient. Now, I don't go for as

long as I did before, but it's not like I'm an invalid either. The clincher

is that, the summer before I started dialysis in October 2002, I was lucky

if I could make it around the block from my house. So, today, when I can do

a half hour ride easily, I'm very happy about that. It helps me think of

dialysis in a positive light.

Pierre

Re: My dialysis centre photos

> Pierre those photos are very cool. I love black and white pictures, no

> matter what the subject they are so full of drama and elegance. Thanks

for

> taking a picture of your machine too....ya know the thing that scared me

> most after my diagnosis is the thought of that machine.

> I used to be a nurses aid and worked in a few nursing homes. The last

> one I worked at we had two residents who would have in house hemodialysis,

> having to monitor them while they were hooked up used to freak me big

> time....then when it hit me that I might be that person hooked up to the

> machine sometime in the future....well....I freaked. Looking at that

photo

> brought back those times taking care of the few residents we had on

> dialysis, and looking back now with a bit clearer head I realize that

> besides having to hook up a few times a week those two people were the

most

> active ones at the nursing home. The only reason they were there at all

was

> due to needing dialysis and not being able to get to a center. They both

> basically took care of themselves otherwise and lived happy lives. I

think

> the whole " blood circulating outside the body " thing is what had me so

> freaked out when I was working there. If the time ever comes for me I

think

> I'll be able to face it. ) Thanks again for the neat photos!

>

> Amy

[Guest guest]

What a beautiful way to spend a day Pierre! I enjoyed a couple of days at

the beach in Florida this weekend for a long weekend. That always recharges me

:-)

In a message dated 6/14/2004 6:34:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

jrzyrita@... writes:

> I just came back from a ride on my racing bike. I rode to a beach and

> around

> some beautiful parks we have here, and few residential streets. I love it.

> It's a beautiful summer day (well, I guess that's late spring), about 27

> degrees Celsius. Just perfect. I sat at the beach for a while soaking up the

> sun, and watching the windsurfers, and a few female sunbathers on the side

>

>