Today started out very good. I went to the surgicenter on orders from the neph on call last night and got in right away. They didn’t have to replace my whole cath. They just snipped off the bad part of the line coming from my chest and put on a new unit. Here comes the trouble, when I tried to dialyse this evening it became obvious fairly soon that the venus line was clotting off. After trying all the usual remedies I called Christina the nurse on call. She suggested reversing the lines and unfortunately that didn’t work either so I’ll be off to Davita Home hemo tomarrow for some actavace.
One thing I would like to add, Jerry Bell, the manager at my unit frequents this site. I would like to welcome him to come out and post and add the knowledge that he has obtained in all his years in dialysis. 
I may need to make an appology to him as I didn’t call Davita when the initial problem occured. I called the neph on duty and it didn’t cross my mind to call the unit. I got a call from the charge nurse Christina asking what was going on after Jerry read my post. This is an area that is confusing to me about who to call for what. Jerry please post and let us know what is the protocol in these issues.
One thing for sure, nothing beats home hemo. The more we know what is expected of us the better we can do. I haven’t felt this good in years and I certainly would not do anything that would jeopardize my privlage to do home hemo. AZgloria