My Transplant on Tuesday

[Phraxis]

I was cold too after surgery but an electric blanket worked quite nicely.

[BrandyChloe]

Sorry haven't updated in forever. The first 7 weeks were a little rough with recovery. Spent quite a bit of time traveling back and forth to Mayo for labs, sonograms, draining of fluid accumulation, removal of stent, etc.

A biopsy had been planned but the head of transplant called it off when my creatinine started going down. He didn't want to do anything to stress the kidney if it wasn't necessary.

I have been released to my nephrologist so he has my primary care now but he works closely with Mayo. From what Mayo tells me, they will never really totally release me; I am their patient for the rest of my life!

Creatinine is down to 1.9, Prograf level seems to be settling down and my labs are down to once a week. After 9 weeks, I am going back to work on Monday. As I get stronger and feel better, I'm not having the issues with being cold all the time which is good.

I'm a little nervous about going back to work because I haven't been exposed to that many people for any length of time. I am also going back to Mass tomorrow. My church has a chapel off the main altar so I'm going to sit in that section. No sign of peace or hand holding during the Our Father. I just can't not go to Mass anymore!

[galvo]

BrandyChloe, it's sounding good.

[okarol]

  Thanks for the update - I hope things get better every day!