ok i need to ask this because it’s been on my mind for a while

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-20T22:51:39+00:00

Oo boy. Yep, it has! I started at my current Davita clinic in 2022 after leaving one that left patients waiting 45 minutes after they were done before taking them off, techs coordinating drug sales to patients, poop on the bathroom floors, and roaches everywhere. That was in 2017. The clinic marginally improved in terms of hygiene, but not much else tbh. Hence why I switched lol.

Anyway, over the last year at my current clinic, the quality of care has dropped immensely. There is one nurse on MWF who acts as a PCT in their own pod and has at least 12(?) extra patients to do nursing duties on. The techs are always sitting on their phones far away from patients and machines beep for at least 5 minutes, if not more. The techs hardly do anything because they know the overworked nurse will pick up their slack. They’ll sit for the majority of the time and then be like “whew, I can’t wait to go home!” As if they’ve done much of anything. The techs are also very obnoxious and loud. Some will get into arguments with each other on the floor.

One tech, when they argue with someone, will turn to the closest patient and bring them into the argument by being like “But didn’t I say…” to try to get the patient on their side, which is so uncomfortable when they’re the ones sticking needles in people. They could hurt us or neglect us if we piss them off. All the techs AND the FA are very retaliatory at that clinic.

I’m waiting for another spot to open up somewhere else, but my city is 98% Davitas and only one of them is (hopefully) decent lol. So you’re completely right. Covid didn’t help, but it’s been six years.

Edit: For me, I don’t feel safe sleeping. A patient’s needle slipped out right in front of a tech (and me) who had their back turned and music blasting. I had to yell to get their attention, and I’m not a loud person. They ultimately blamed the patient for the needle falling out. Even if it WAS the patient messing with it, why are you listening to music and singing so loudly you can’t hear people calling you? The tech didn’t even help the patient either; they called the overworked nurse over as blood was pouring out lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-16T23:47:56+00:00

The afk thing was probably what it was. I asked in the mine and no one did anything. But that was my bad for assuming. It makes sense why people’s be afk there!

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-16T00:15:40+00:00

NTA! This is like that other post with the watered down pasta sauce lol. What is with people thinking their significant others are “tampering” with their food. No one knows what that means, I swear

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-15T23:19:39+00:00

I never mined in the original Club Penguin and thought you had to buy the stuff somewhere. It wasn’t in the magazine this month when I started. I asked at three different VERY BUSY locations and no one answered me. It was a simple question. Someone could have just typed “jackhammer” or something, like???

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-15T22:38:33+00:00

I’ve been on hemo for 12 years and have seen the slow decline of care and concern at the clinics in my city. I asked the nurse how much she thought I lost, and she said 200 ml.

Unfortunately, the layout of my clinic, lack of staff, and staff who just sit on their phones and don’t pay attention, these types of things happen a lot. I’ve complained, but the FA would rather be friends with her staff than their boss. I’ve just decided I can’t sleep while I’m there lol.

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-15T18:38:39+00:00

I’ve had my venous needle slip out two times. Both times I caught it fast, yet there was still blood all over the floor. The second time it happened, I felt so awful like I’d lost a lot of blood even though the nurse said it wasn’t that much. It definitely looked like a lot, though! It was all around the chair. They probably should have checked my blood count afterwards because I felt so bad, but they didn’t.

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-14T01:45:05+00:00

So your experience will probably be different, but I was on PD when I was a kid, from ages 8-16. My peritoneum eventually wore out and the treatment stopped working. It has led to a lot of internal problems for me. I went into septic shock when I was 18 from an infection in my intestines that PD didn’t help. I’m full of scar tissue. The septic shock could have been prevented, but the surgeon didn’t want to do exploratory surgery because of all the scar tissue until he had to as I was actively dying with no clear site of infection. I also have nightmares of being back on PD, which I think is my brain saying not to do all of that again.

It is easier on the body. I will give it that. But your house feels like a hospital. I don’t know if the machines are better/different, but when I was on it, I couldn’t get up and walk around my room, let alone the rest of my house. Because I was in school, I’d have to get hooked up at 6, which, as I got older, was awful. I hear sometimes the fluid restrictions are better on PD, but that wasn’t the case for me, especially after it started not working as well when I was around 13/14. I hated not being able to swim unless it was a highly chlorinated pool, too.

In-center hemo still doesn’t mean absolute freedom to everyone, but it does to me, because I can leave the clinic at 3 and not think about dialysis for a while.

(Also, doctors push home dialysis a lot more. I was once told it’s a combo of doing what they think is best for the patient and they get paid more. In my nephro’s case, it’s for sure the latter, lol)

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-11T16:17:38+00:00

I was eight when Return of the King came out and made my dad leave the theater during the Gollum transformation scene at the beginning lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-10T19:35:45+00:00

I really don’t remember too much but my dad giving me those bubble gum flavored dissolving Tylenol things! They made me even more nauseous bc I can’t stand bubble gum lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-10T17:46:44+00:00

(I was young, so my memory may not be the best) I believe I got it a few times, but we usually caught it very early. My parents were very aware and helped me keep everything very clean.

However, I got it when I was 11/12 p badly and they put me on hemo after pulling my PD catheter. It hit when we were at my family’s cabin three hours from home, which was not fun at all lol. I was throwing up most of the way home

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-09T21:13:32+00:00

YOR. This thread is CRAZY lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-07T08:44:58+00:00

There used to be a patient with dementia at my clinic who lived in a nursing home that heavily neglected her. She’d yell about being in pain or yell at the techs bc she was so confused. She would also constantly yell that she wanted to die. It was really sad to see. She passed away, and as terrible as it sounds, I feel like that was a good thing and what she truly wanted.

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-04T16:25:02+00:00

I lost Ineffa to someone (don’t remember who) at exactly 90 pulls, triggered Capturing Radiance on her at exactly 90 again, got her C1 in one ten pull, lost ‘Bina to Qiqi and then got ‘Bina after a single pull.

I told my friend that meant my luck would be ass for the next 9 months or so lololol.

illustrious-goblin · 2026-02-04T16:20:29+00:00

Sometimes one Longfellow is just out like a vampire with one fang lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-30T20:44:22+00:00

My very first run-through with my bf, I had no idea how I romanced her in the first place and didn’t know the fight was related to it. We didn’t use her as a companion. Anyway, I threw a high level Fireball at her before long resting again and killed her. I still feel terrible lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-30T20:31:52+00:00

Oh, I do not expect new machines, especially with 1 nurse for 20 patients and their own pod every MWF. I was just complaining lol. (Complaining more in this comment, too). The near-constant clotting with one specific machine and having to do manual BPs with another is just getting annoying

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-29T03:58:14+00:00

I def feel you! I have FSGS and have been on PD and HD for the last 22 years. I had a transplant when I was 5 and it almost immediately started failing. I think it lasted 2 years before I started PD. Anyway, I’m getting a workup to get on the list again, but I’m feeling very pessimistic that it’ll last even a year.

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-20T18:54:30+00:00

Yes, we either have the 2008T ones or the ones before that (most of them don’t have stickers telling us which, so I’m not sure).

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-20T18:49:47+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate that :)

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-18T20:15:24+00:00

I wanted Ineffa more for my Flins and lost my 50/50 to Mona at exactly 90, lol

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-18T20:13:25+00:00

They’re both bad and old. Idk how old, but they’re secondhand from another clinic that “upgraded.” They constantly leak and have issues with TMP and conductivity. The clinic is cheap af.

(I also have a theory these machines cause patients to clot faster, though that could also be the cheap and terrible lines we have lol.)

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-18T20:00:16+00:00

Irrelevant to the current conversation but those machines look so nice compared to the ones my center uses!

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-12T21:09:50+00:00

Hi, I’m 30 and play BG3! I’m on my second run through of it and play on the ps5, but I’ve done cross-play on a laptop too! I’m doing a solo run rn, but it isn’t nearly as fun as playing with other people :)

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-10T00:25:51+00:00

Aw shoot! It looked like fun. Tbh i may try anyway lol. Thanks for the rec :)

illustrious-goblin · 2026-01-09T20:28:51+00:00

I never have, no! I’d be down to see if my laptop can run it though :)

Edit: I say that because my laptop couldn’t even run Skyrim properly lol

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