The Treasure you seek is within...yeah, right!

I'm back! I survived my nephrectomy. Thanks for the heads up on the pain...cuz even though I have had nearly a dozen of other abdominally-type surgeries, this one seems to hurt more than others. yowee!

Well, I never got my boo-hoo moment to say good-bye to the kidney my son loaned me. I had a series of roommates in the hospital-- so much so, that it seemed like a hooker's seedy motel room! And boy, were those people some characters! I tell ya, those liver patients are an "interesting" crowd. Yeah, I got stuck on the liver end of the transplant floor. The stories I could tell you!

I had some confusion going into the surgery, because I thought my native kidneys were, after all this time, caput! that was the consensus during several ultrasounds I had earlier this year...and after I stop urinated while on daily dialysis, I thought those babies had given up and had been properly disconnected during my January transplant ..but i guessed wrong (um, so did a couple of docs i've discussed this with...) Sans transplant, I'm still making a good amount of urine.

Making urine...is still troubling to me. Because we removed the transplant due to the massive amounts of protein i was losing from urination. i don't think i can go through another edema blow up--with grace. if that happens again, i will really be aggro! last edema attack (that should have been stopped before it go so serious) was very painful, having gained 30 lbs of fluid in under three weeks. argh!

in other news, though, my research doc says he's working on some new FSGS treatments. since i'm the kinda of patient that completely skews the results for everyone else, he's gonna wait to try these treatments out on me (yeah, i think i single-handedly ruined that last nobel prize...hehehe). but i figure, by the time he's done experimenting on the current patients, i should be down to the weight they want and finished with most of the gazillion tests i (and my donor) will have to take to be considered for transplant again.

*le sigh*

anyhoo...happy to be stuck with you. someone update me on what's been going on here in my absence.

treasure <~~~~~~~ will show you her scars, if you show her yours... or even if you dont!

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