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« Reply #50 on: April 03, 2011, 05:09:03 AM »
Its amazing who you can find on facebook!!!!  ;)
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
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« Reply #51 on: April 03, 2011, 10:22:07 AM »
Quote from: Sugarlump on April 03, 2011, 05:09:03 AM
Its amazing who you can find on facebook!!!!  ;)

Including people who don't want to be found!  One of my professors was talking about a corporate lawsuit she was involved in.  The CEO was being sued, but had enough money to just keep dodging the process servers.  No one could find him - he was out of sight, and not coming up for air.  Except he took his wife with him on his "vacation" and she kept posting pics of where they were on her facebook account.  The process server just followed along with a laptop and wifi, and served the guy as he came down from the scenic overlook where he'd just posed for a picture.  Here ya go, Mr. Bigshot - you've been served! 

My best thing - finishing the 24 hour blood pressure monitoring I had to do.  I get to sleep uninterrupted every hour on the hour tonight, thank heavens.
I'd be less annoyed about it if the hospital had their timing right.  As the nurse explains what I have to do, she says "We do this twice for every transplant patient.  Once at 3 months and again at 6 months from when you had your surgery."
Uh-huh.  It's been 18 months, and this is the first time I've ever heard of it.  ::)
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« Reply #52 on: April 03, 2011, 10:50:29 AM »
Have to say I've never heard of routine bp 24 hour monitoring for transplant patients? Good job since my bp has been all over the place lately.
They've just changed my bp medication for the 3rd time to see if they can stabilize it. Apparently its usually the drugs wonderful (side effect number 310!!!)  :)
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #53 on: April 03, 2011, 01:46:26 PM »

I had a very lucky escape today.
One of the neighbours had her place burning to smithereens
and we were all evacuated because of the smoke, fumes and dangers of a gas-explosion.
There were many firemen and even more policemen, but no ambulance.
The neighbour whose place burnt down suffered badly and walked around in a daze.
One neighbour suffered from an asthma-attack caused by the fumes and smoke
and many frail and vulnerable people had to stand in the cold.
I don’t comprehend. Where was the ambulance?
Why were there so many policemen and no ambulance?
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« Reply #54 on: April 03, 2011, 01:51:22 PM »
The best thing that happened to me today was the fact that my family was able to visit me and a few hours later I am still lucid enough to be able to type here:)
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« Reply #55 on: April 03, 2011, 06:39:32 PM »
So good to see you lucid, Sax and I sure hope you are improving!  :2thumbsup;

This has been an outstanding day! Lived life large all the way through it!  :cheer:

 :flower;

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« Reply #56 on: April 04, 2011, 09:34:40 AM »
Happy Belated Mother's Day, Sugar! 

Yay! about the potential live donor, Karen!

I got home at a reasonable time this afternoon (despite the best intentions of the bus company ... *rolls eyes*) and now have Mog-cat sitting on my lap (something he's only started doing in the last few days ... he and Tabatha weren't particularly close, but perhaps he knows I'm sad.)

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« Reply #57 on: April 04, 2011, 11:20:05 AM »
Cheers Poppy! I'm back in Cambridge (AGAIN) on Wednesday morning.
Enjoying nachos, glass of wine and thinking about *** !!!!!  :2thumbsup;

Hello to Mog-cat x
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #58 on: April 04, 2011, 12:18:44 PM »
@kristina - at least no one was seriously injured.  I guess the question is, did anyone actually call the ambulance?


My best thing - I saw the first true sign of spring in Michigan.  Garage sale signs!
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« Reply #59 on: April 04, 2011, 07:44:01 PM »
hmm we have mother's day in May so I was not aware it was celebrated in the UK and US and probably elsewhere this past Sunday. oops. Happy mother's day to all those mothers!!! :)

Can't think of too many good things that have happened recently, unless you count India's win of the cricket one day world cup, which was sensational (and won me over $90!), oh and my poor football team, after losing 13 games on the trot to this one club managed to DRAW (in a game we should have won but were robbed by the unpires!) and I was there at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. I think I got a bit of a cold, but it was worth it to see my tigers finally compete with one of the best teams out there and take it right up to them.

Hopefully more good things are to come.
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27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

BE POSITIVE * BE INFORMED * BE PROACTIVE * BE IN CONTROL * LIVE LIFE!
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« Reply #60 on: April 04, 2011, 08:21:30 PM »
Thank you Rich x
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #61 on: April 10, 2011, 07:12:45 AM »
I went to my bi-weekly knitting group yesterday and two of the girls presented me with their paperwork to be a live donor!!  Yeah!!!   :bandance;
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« Reply #62 on: April 10, 2011, 07:48:05 AM »
Quote from: cattlekid on April 10, 2011, 07:12:45 AM
I went to my bi-weekly knitting group yesterday and two of the girls presented me with their paperwork to be a live donor!!  Yeah!!!   :bandance;

Oh my! Oh my!!!!

That is great news!  :cheer:  :2thumbsup;

Seems like your knitting group is a well-knit family!  :clap;

Congratulations!  :beer1;

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« Reply #63 on: April 10, 2011, 10:34:40 AM »
 :bandance; :bandance; :bandance; Excellent stitch pattern!

I opened my blinds this morning to the perfect spring day - breezy, sunny, birds chirping, the perfect temp....aaaaahhhhh!
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« Reply #64 on: April 10, 2011, 11:04:08 AM »
Quote from: cattlekid on April 10, 2011, 07:12:45 AM
I went to my bi-weekly knitting group yesterday and two of the girls presented me with their paperwork to be a live donor!!  Yeah!!!   :bandance;
Awww, what fabulous friends!

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« Reply #65 on: April 10, 2011, 11:44:03 AM »
The forecast today was a high temp of +5 C and it is +17!!!   :clap; :flower;Got to love it!! The snow is melting and my daffodils are poking through the ground!!  Still snow on most of the flower beds though!!
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« Reply #66 on: April 11, 2011, 01:00:12 AM »
I picked some winners at various races yesterday including a rank outsider which paid nicely and another come from behind winner(also paid nicely). Things went a bit pear shaped a bit later on, but all in all I still did well. I'm happy :)
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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

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« Reply #67 on: April 11, 2011, 04:59:10 AM »
A girlfriend and I went to Tesco's this morning and on leaving the car park, followed a garden landscaper's van which had the following inscription on the back :

WE CAN TRIM YOUR BUSH !!!!

Kept us in hysterics all the way home  :rofl;  :rofl;  :rofl;
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10 years of half a life
3 years HD 1st transplant Feb 08 failed after 3 months
Back to HD 2nd transplant Dec 10 failed after 11 months
Difficult times with a femoral line and catching MSSA (Thank you Plymouth Hospital)
Back on HD (not easy to do that third time around)
Fighting hard (two years on) to do home HD ... watch this space!
Oh and I am am getting married 1/08/15 to my wonderful partner Drew!!!
The power of optimism over common sense :)
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« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2011, 10:16:42 AM »
I woke up and saw my hubby's beautiful face still sleeping away, let my dog out, stepped on to the deck and realized it was the first warm day after 4 months of winter! Then, I went to physio and had a marvelous work out. I came home, took dog for walk in crazy but warm winds. At some cottage cheese with blueberries and a tea for lunch. Filling out a survey by my home hemo team, then logged on here to get some good advice from all you guys!
So far today, everything I've done is one best thing followed by another!
I hope you're all having a good day! :cheer:
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« Reply #69 on: April 11, 2011, 02:38:46 PM »
I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy today!  Now some of you might not think that's a good thing but it was the last set of tests that I needed to get the green light for my transplant!  The GI doc told my husband that everything looked good and I have the clean as a whistle pictures to prove it!   ;D

My sister also called yesterday to get the web address for the living donor paperwork!  She and my brother in law are both going to be tested!  So my mom is in progress with her testing and I have four more people who have/will be turning in paperwork with two more on the fence!  I can smell a transplant a-comin my way!   :bandance;
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« Reply #70 on: April 11, 2011, 04:27:00 PM »
My caring thoughts are with you, cattlekid.  Hope every thing works out. :cuddle;

The best thing that happened to me today is that they were able to take of 4.5kg with NO CRAMPING!   My nurses have been doing some little tricks when I come after a weekend.  One uses profiling and now this one used something else.  Don't care what it was - I DID NOT CRAMP!

I usually cramp if they take of more than 3kg.
 :yahoo;
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« Reply #71 on: April 11, 2011, 04:29:36 PM »
Today is my older granddaughter's birthday and I had a wonderful conversation with her. After hanging up the phone rang. My younger granddaughter wanted to talk with me, too!  :clap;

I love those sweet, sweet voices.  :flower;

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« Reply #72 on: April 11, 2011, 08:35:23 PM »
 :yahoo; :yahoo; :yahoo;
One exam done!  3 more next week, plus the project from  >:D, and them I'm done.

Best part of the exam tonight - one part of it was on a computer program that I just hate, hate, hate.  It's confusing, not user friendly, and the few exercises on it we did in class did not really help explain it at all.  I was not looking forward to that section at all today.  The program crashed and we got to skip that section completely!!!   :bandance; :bandance; :bandance;
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« Reply #73 on: April 12, 2011, 04:42:28 AM »
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The program crashed and we got to skip that section completely!!!   :bandance; :bandance; :bandance;

Sometimes you just gotta love technology!  :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #74 on: April 12, 2011, 07:00:57 AM »
I gpt discharged from the hospital!!!!!
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