Allow me to re-introduce myself.

[RedMist]

Greetings again,

I first visited IHD last November for about a month and then dropped off the radar.   My remaining kidney was getting so large I was having trouble breathing.  In January I sat in a hammock, swung my legs up and into it, and one end broke, dumping me on the ground back first.  I landed on the hammock frame with my remaining kidney.  For the next few days I passed the usual cystic by--products and fluids.  My abdomen decreased in size, I even returned to the gym.  But, the reprieve was temporary.  My kidney extends from the 5th rib space to two fingers above the pubic bone. I'm going to check with the Guiness Book.  So, the internist, the neph and the surgeon agree, it has to come out.  I learned a new word yesterday.  Its rather exotic and obscure, useful for impressing people.  After my kidney is removed I will be anephric - without kidney tissue.  Anephric.  It sounds like a Norse first name.   

Anyway, I have a lot tto learn and now I have the time to learn. 

Joe

[YLGuy]

Welcome back!  When is surgery?  Please keep us posted.

[jbeany]

Anephric - hhhmmmmm - so did you ask the doc for the antonym, so you could have the term for someone with excessive kidney tissue, like you have now?

Unanephric?  Disanephric?  And will that apply to those of us with more than two kidneys, thanks to transplants?   

[Bajanne]

Great to have you back, posting again.  Please don't leave us again.  Keep reading and keep posting.

I think the antonym for 'anephric' would have to be 'nephric' since the prefix 'a-' means 'without.

[peleroja]

Welcome back, Joe.  I like the new word.  I'll keep good thoughts for you and your prospective surgery.  We're always her for you!

[Fox_nc]

Sounds like you've had a rough year. I loved PD - it made me feel way better than HD. Was your 1 kidney a transplant or a remaining native kidney? I hope to be returning to the gym myself soon <fingers crossed>

  Love "anephric"! I was that way myself for a while.  I think "nephric" would be someone with 2 native kidneys and "hyper-nephric" would be someone with 3.

[Lisa]

I would go with polynephric when you have many kidneys!!!   

[natnnnat]

... and when you have one of those enlarged kidneys?  .... meganephric?

[RedMist]

Thank you for warm welcome.  Since the life of the mind will soon be a much larger component in my life I decided to indulge myself in a bit of whimsy, wordplay.  My wife hates it cuz I usually win.   I developed thirteen major categories of renal possession and function.  Seems to me a suffix is a good as prefix to a blind horse so do your worst, or best, lay on MacDuff, Git 'er dun, etc.....

w/o KD ESRF
w/o 1 KD
w/o 1 KD ESRF
1 big KD only
1 big KD only ESRF
1 small KD only
1 small KD only ESRF
2 big KDs
2 big KDs ESRF
2 small KDs
2 small KDs ESRF
X>2 KDs
X>2 KDs ESRF

[RedMist]

I don't know when surgery will take place.  My surgeon wants to me visit a dialysis center so I do that manana (tomorrow).  He's also setting a meeting with the transplant team so I can evaluated and to address some practical and ethical concerns I have.  Seems that might have some bearing on what type of dialysis I should use.  Then there's the issue of access.  Dunno how long it takes for a AV Fistula to be ready.   

On the one hand, I hope it's soon because I'm confined to sitting around and falling asleep periodically.  That wreaks havoc with my web site and graphics construction.  I fade into the ethers with my hand on the mouse and am horrified by what's on the monitor.  For aa couple of years I've run Google Ads on the site and lately have been looking into other companies Ad Revenue programs.  I woke up one time to find a 200 x 375 pixel ad for "Mature Nannies Teach Schoolboys Manners" in the right column of the homepage.  I thought that was amusing in a Rodney Dangerfield sort of way.  My wife however, saw nothing at all humorous about it.  She had surgery done on her hand and knee in the past two months and I'm worried that while in the hospital she caught one of those fleshing eating microorgamisms and it lodged in the humor section of her brain.   

On the third hand, I'm drinking about a gallon of weak iced tea a day (AZ summers - 109F) and it's sooooo good.   Perhaps thirst will follow appetite into the hither and yon.  AZ is famous for heat stroke because our humidity is so low we usually don't notice perspiration because it evaporates too quickly to accumulate on the skin.  I'm sure those of you in Oz can relate.  Anyway, it's easy to forget to drink.   Sorry to talk in so many directions at once.   I do come by it honestly.  In addition to low KD function, the cyst contents, infections, insulin dependent diabetes. I've also been blessed with bipolar disorder.  Tangential thinking is a hallmark of bipolar disorder.  It's also a hallmark of politicians on the defensive at public appearances.   

I see I'm foaming at the mouth again.  TTTYAL,

Joe

[natnnnat]

What fun!  Now let me see, what have we got so far?...  nephric, anephric, polynephric, meganephric... hmm.

w/o KD ESRF
w/o 1 KD     ----------uninephric
w/o 1 KD ESRF
1 big KD only   ----------------macro-uninephric
1 big KD only ESRF
1 small KD only         -----------------micronephric
1 small KD only ESRF
2 big KDs                ----------------meganephric
2 big KDs ESRF
2 small KDs        ---- nephric?  this is "normal" isn't it... or do we need another category in here for "normal"?
2 small KDs ESRF     ---------
X>2 KDs           --------------polynephric
X>2 KDs ESRF

the question in my mind is, do you get shrunken kidneys?  I think you do?  so we need categories for small kidneys and categories for normal sized kidneys... as well as (we already have) categories for large kidneys)....

I love this kind of thing, was a librarian in a past life and a mathematics student in a life prior to that...  appeals to my love of classifications and categories.  Even though i know that to categorise is a political act.

[looneytunes]

Welcome back RedMist