Medical Jewelry: Do you wear it?

[kayleah]

Do you wear medical jewelry that indicates you are on dialysis or have a fistula?  I was wondering about it and wanted to know about it.  Thanks for the input

[getlife]

Kayleah,
A great question!  I do wear a bracelet. It was given to me by my dialysis unit.  I also wore a necklace the entire 18 years I had a transplant.  The one I have now, I have been wearing for 10 years. 

It has all my information on it:

1.  my name
2.  on hemodialysis
3.  my doctors name and phone number
4.  DOB

on the other side it has:

5.  diagnosis
6.  access type and location
7.  allergies

I never take it off unless I have to in the hospital for differenct procedures.
I recommend getting one. 

[MikeCarlson]

I just started wearing medical jewelry......

Parents bought me an arm band and a tag on a chain to wear.  Still need to have them engraved with the necessary info, but feel a bit better traveling with the info. easily avaible(I flew from Spokane back to Portland, Oregon today).

getlife- your dialysis unit gave you one?   that's awesome....mine doesnt have them...i don't think....

[Angie]

I am in Canada so I got one through my hospital as a child after I started dialysis and it was through Medic Alert.

http://www.medicalert.org/

http://www.medicalert.ca

[getlife]

Yes, the information had to be changed once.  They did provide both of them.  My social worker took all the information and sent for it.