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lie detectors in phones
Or more accurately in mobile phone networks. A Korean company has started to offer a service that claims it will detect lying in your cell phone calls. They also offer a similar service for romantic intentions. -
Lots of progress
I heard from one of my former nephrologists. He is helping me get in touch with the person that first developed nocturnal home hemodialysis. He also has given me some pointers on places where it may be easier to get a living donor transplant done ( Read more... ) -
Finally some information
I heard from one of my old nephrologists (kidney specialists) today. He happens to be having a meeting this weekend with several nephrology groups in NM. He is going to check on what provisions might be made for NHHD. My first meeting with the home dialysis program in Albuquerque is tomorrow. I am going to have a doppler ultrasound as well. So ( Read more... ) -
Delays
The surgeon doing my dialysis access decided he wanted another venous mapping done. It will be done in a couple of weeks. They are currently saying the surgery may have to wait until November due to overcrowding in the hospital. I haven't heard from any of the dialysis companies I have contacted yet. Today I learned about the possibility of ( Read more... ) -
Dallas falls through but NxStage looks to be good
Contrary to initial reports there is no nocturnal home program in Dallas so my plan to use them for monitoring me here in New Mexico won't work. I am now investigating programs in the Houston area. Mesa, AZ is another possibility. Another hopeful development is the recent release of the NxStage System One. This beauty is a simplified and ( Read more... ) -
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I was first diagnosed with membranous glomerulonephritis in 1976. At the time half the people with that diagnosis had no kidney function left after five years. I have made it thirty years as of August. While I still have some kidney function left I have been told it is time to get the surgery to prepare for dialysis. I have been investigating ( Read more... ) -
Bored on the Bayou (with apologies to John Fogarty)
Somehow I missed the bayou near my house when I first moved into it. -
Hertz sends me into the wilderness
Hertz normally gives me a Taurus or Sable when I rent from them. For some reason this time they gave me a Subaru Outback. This car clearly requires a graduate degree to operate. The stick alone would require a whole course. It is some weird stair step contraption that took a while for me to figure out. It isn't really manual but it isn't ( Read more... ) -
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So I suppose if the plan had used explosive gases rather than liquids the TSA would be sucking all the air out of the passenger cabin now. -
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Why is it that I could not stop thinking of baldjuglingogre when I was reading this.