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« on: December 12, 2009, 01:47:09 PM »
I'm supposed to be having surgery next week to go in and create a "window" in the lymphocele so that the fluid will drain into my abdomen and be absorbed by my body.  He wants to schedule it for either Wednesday or Friday.  Also, they will remove and probably replace my stint.  Apparently this surgery will be under anesthesia and I will spend one night in the hospital.  Just before Christmas.  Perfect.  :thumbdown;  I also think they might place a drain in the lymphocele,  :thumbdown; :thumbdown; but I'm not 100% sure on that.  I hope they don't.    I sure hope this fixes the problem for good.  :thumbup;
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2009, 02:37:05 PM »
Kelly I'm so annoyed that this is coming up for you right before Christmas.  BUT I am keeping all things crossed that all will be mended with this surgery.  :cuddle;
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2009, 02:39:53 PM »
OH, Kelly.

Bad timing.  :Kit n Stik;

Hopefully you will not be too sore and back on your feet fully in time to enjoy every inch of the holiday.

And here is hoping, too, that everything is fixed spick and span!  :cheer:

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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2009, 05:19:43 PM »
 :cuddle; Kelly, I hope it's a good surgery and all goes well. HUGS!
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2009, 08:03:58 PM »
Where is your surgery?  Who is doing it? Let me know if you need anything.  I assume you will be in the Med Center...
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2009, 11:23:22 PM »
Kelly, hope everything goes all right for you and this is the end of it already!!!
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2009, 12:13:37 AM »
Hope it all goes well Kelly.
On the positive side, look at it this way, it's a get out of cooking card for the holiday  :2thumbsup; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :shy;
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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2009, 12:16:03 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2009, 07:05:02 AM »
Good luck Kelly hope all goes well.
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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2009, 08:18:54 AM »
Thanks everyone.

Vicki, I'll be at St. Lukes in the Med. Center.  The Urologist is Dr. Kella with San Antonio Urologists (or Urology).    I'll let you know for sure when it's scheduled.  Maybe you could stop by!  That would be great!
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« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2009, 02:52:45 PM »
Scheduled for 2:30 p.m. this Wednesday.   :pray;
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1993 diagnosed with glomerulonephritis.
Oct 41, 2007 - Got fistula placed.
Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2009, 04:19:01 PM »
Not to be a pain, but usually on the week-ends and holidays is when staff is short in hospitals. I'm not certain I would plan a surgery around them times. Just a personal opinion. :)
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« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2009, 06:09:00 PM »
Thanks, but I didn't schedule it, the doctor/surgeon did.   :)    Personally if they only had one nurse on duty the one night I'm going to be there that would be perfectly okay with me.  Just bring me my meds and leave me the hell alone!  I hate the fact that they come in constantly to check this, that and the other. While I was there for transplant they would come in betwen midnight and 3 a.m. and tell me to get up so they can weigh me.  I told them to shove it and they could check my weight after 6 a.m. (blame it on the Prednisone "roid rage").   Doctor's orders be damned!   You get no rest in the hospital.   :thumbdown;
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1993 diagnosed with glomerulonephritis.
Oct 41, 2007 - Got fistula placed.
Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2009, 06:31:38 PM »
Well I do agree with you about getting no rest in hospitals! Beings you will only be staying one night shouldn't be bad. Hope everything goes well! Keep us posted on how things are going.  :)
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« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2009, 08:22:57 PM »
Thanks Pamster.  Oh how I hate the overnight stays.  AND I have to do a bowel prep starting around noon tomorrow.  Then nothing to eat or drink after midnight.  Come on!  My surgery is scheduled for 2:30 PM Wednesday and you know they'll be running late!  Wednesday is not going to be a good day.   :(
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Oct 41, 2007 - Got fistula placed.
Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2009, 10:21:17 PM »
That bowel prep heck means you shouldn't/wouldn't want to eat anything after taking it. The less trips to and from the better. I hated drinking that stuf. :puke;

I agree, post tx they check on you constintly or draw blood, yet do less during the day  :rofl; It maybe part why I do not like to sleep at night since I usually slept during the day in a hospital?  :urcrazy; :rofl; :rofl;
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   -glaucoma and surgery for that
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     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

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« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2009, 02:47:37 PM »
Chris, are you talking about the citrate magnesium?  That's what I'm drinking - lemon flavored.  I just finished my first bottle.  I was supposed to start it at noon, but I had an appointment with my post transplant doctor at 1:45 p.m. and I wanted him to confirm that I could drink this before I started.  Anytime I get ANY medication or instructions from another doctor I want to check with him first.  I had breakfast and lunch and now I'm on clear liquids until midnight and then no food or liquid after midnight.

How long before this stuff kicks in?  I have to drink the 2nd and final bottle around 6 p.m.   :puke;   It took me 45 minutes to finish the first bottle.
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Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2009, 04:51:10 PM »
That stuffs takes longer. I had the red bottle one, but forgot flavor if you want to call it that.. I thought you wer doing the other stuff they make you take to clean out, go lite I think it's called.
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Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
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« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2009, 05:39:38 PM »
I've heard of that.  Go Lightly or something.   This stuff tastes like you're sucking on the sourest candy in the world.  If I didn't know it was a laxative I would just think it was a sour drink.  But knowing what it is makes me want to gag.   :puke;

Being that my surgery isn't until 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, what would happen if I had something like a piece of homemade peanut brittle, but just the brittle, not the peanuts?  Would I pass it before surgery?  It's just sugar and syrup... basically.  It disovles in cold water...
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1993 diagnosed with glomerulonephritis.
Oct 41, 2007 - Got fistula placed.
Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2009, 06:07:01 PM »
Good luck, Kelly! I really hope that this solves the problem.

I'll be thinking of you tomorrow afternoon!   :grouphug;
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« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2009, 06:13:10 PM »
Kelly not sure it's considered a clear liquid on that, but then again, they do serve popcicles that are full of sugar and coloring. I say go for it, but cautiously if they used butter in the brittle making process.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2009, 06:43:54 PM »
Kelly, suck on a piece for a moment to get the flavor.  You are going to be sooooo hungry by tomorrow night.  We will all be surrounding you with love and good wishes tomorrow   :grouphug;   Tell Charles do take good care of you   :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #22 on: December 16, 2009, 06:41:48 AM »
Ok, I had a couple of pieces of peanut brittle last night around 7 p.m.  I can't imagine it would still be in my system after all I went through last night.   :o   But if by doing so I die on the table ( :pray;  God forbid) I love you all!    :2thumbsup;

It's now 8:40 a.m. here and I haven't had anything to eat (but the brittle) since noon yesterday.  Well, I drank some teak and that nasty magnesium stuff.  But nothing real solid.  As soon as they allow I'm sending someone for some real food.  I refuse to eat that hospital food!  I want to  :puke;  just thinking about it now...

Love you and talk to you tomorrow night!
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Oct 41, 2007 - Got fistula placed.
Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #23 on: December 16, 2009, 09:01:05 AM »
Do you want me to bring you something?
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« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2009, 01:15:20 PM »
It is 4pm where I am.  My prayers are all about Kelly right now.  Hoping for swift surgery and quick recovery.  Love you, Kelly!   :cuddle;
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