Re: My dialysis centre photos

[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]

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

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for posting the pictures, Pierre. They were very interesting.

~Dana

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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