Day 11 - Five Dialysis Treatments not taken!

How are you all doing today? It's a pretty fair day for me.
Yesterday was really tough. I had swelling over the surgery
site, redness and irritation of the incision site plus the
drain access was very irritated and hurt all day. I finally
kept eliminating causes and finally decided the tube needed
to be anchored. It could move freely so every time I moved,
it was too, and basically digging in the same place.

Anyway, I built a bandage around it that would keep it from
moving. Also used some neosporin on it. Yes, I even called
Vanderbilt to the neph on call and he wasn't too excited
since I had no temperature. I very rarely get temps. Anyway,
I thought if he wasn't excited, I wasn't either. Did what I
could to be comfortable and I'm better this morning.

I'll be so GLAD when I get this drainage tube out. I will
feel so FREE!!!! I'm so anxious to just heal. What will I do
with my days when they are all free!!! I've planned on Tues.
and Thurs. so long I will have to get used to it. I'll have
to learn how to be a normal human being. LOL Well, maybe not.





~My bailout was nailed to a tree.

Wonders never cease!

Oh. My. Gosh. Folks! Wonders indeed never cease. As you have been reading here I have been seriously considering going on peritoneal dialysis. I was well on my way to preparing for it. My joints, etc. have been giving me so much pain from lying in the dialysis recliner. I had my mind made up. I was ready. And then it happened. On Friday 13th, 7:00 AM we got a phone call that told us we had a kidney. What? A kidney? Yes, come and get it! So William and I got up and started throwing stuff together and headed for Vanderbilt Medical Center. We got there in good time, but then it was hurry up and wait. It was 6:00 PM when they wheeled me into surgery and 9:00 PM when they wheeled me out. Now I'm the proud owner of three kidneys! It's been kind of rough at times but I know that each day that passes is one day closer to healing. I don't have the energy to sit here for very long so the details will have to come later. By the way, surgery was Friday night, and I came home on Monday afternoon! I'm still pretty much in a daze.

Til next time,
~Ann