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« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2008, 09:04:37 PM »
In the afternoons, home from work, reading posts.
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Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

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« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2008, 09:05:43 AM »
Any time I'm feeling healthy, i.e. strong and energetic, not nauseous and weak.  Even if I have to do a chore I'm not fond of, if I feel healthy and strong I'm aware of the feeling and want to hug it and have it last forever.

When I am healthy my favorite things are sex, cooking and eating, gardening and reading. (All of those in one day, makes for a perfect day)
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2008, 11:28:10 AM »
When I feel great, the sun is shining, it's warm, I'm driving with the windows down and U2 on the stereo 9even better when my husband is with me)!
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« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2008, 11:30:03 AM »
- early in the morning with cup of coffee
- spending time with Len, making him laugh
- sitting on any beach listening to the waves
- listening to rain hit the roof while I am going to sleep
- watching my children mature
- watching Willie and Winnie curl up together sleeping
- holding and smelling a sleeping baby
- smelling a puppy (I love puppy breath)

I could go on and on..............
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« Reply #29 on: April 29, 2008, 04:39:54 AM »
I've done the research and apparently I am my happiest right here on IHD :cuddle;
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WOO HOO NEW KIDNEY PEEING !!!(Transplant 23/10/07)
« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2008, 05:04:45 AM »
***Spending time with Allan doing whatever

 ***Cuddling up to my munchkin baby boy Woofa

***Beating the Tigers - this ones for you Rich ;)

***Laughing until it makes your stomach hurt and laughin so hard until it makes you cry

***Spending time with my family

***When I'm holding a catheter bag after having a kidney transplant - I don't think i've ever been happier to tell you the truth

***and my life now knowing that i'm six months down the track and things are going great !  :clap;
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Dialysis Sucks and Transplants Don't.................So Far Anyway !!!!!
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« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2008, 07:20:17 PM »
When I am not fatigued. It is rare, these days, for me to not be fatigued. I do not know why. I am off work today for this very reason.
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WOO HOO NEW KIDNEY PEEING !!!(Transplant 23/10/07)
« Reply #32 on: May 01, 2008, 03:30:19 AM »
Hope you sort it out soon cyco. I find I suddenly get tired now, but then I'll realise its just from all the running around I do now, working and lack of sleep !
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« Reply #33 on: May 05, 2008, 03:35:42 AM »
Thanks Tamara. Previously I was exhausted because the beta blocker medication I was taking for my hypertension was tiring me out. Now, my sirolimus is causing tachycardia, and I am therefore constantly running at a heart rate of 110-130 beats per minute, even at rest. I guess that is like running at mid-peak exercise all of my waking moments, so it is no wonder I am tired!

Today my neph prescribed a different beta blocker, at a smaller dose, to help slow the heart rate and hopefully help with my marginally high blood pressure (which is not coming down enough with Amlodipine alone).

And yeah, the work days do make things tiring. When I add on my travel time (train and bus) my days are about 11 hours long all together. That's a damn long day for someone on all these medications with all these side effects. *moan, whinge*   :rant;
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« Reply #34 on: May 07, 2008, 06:54:28 PM »
- When I am with Sarah
- When I get to spend more than a weekend with Sarah
- alone on a secluded riverbank fishing away from everything (even more when I'm catching fish)
- driving with the windows down on a empty road or track and hearing my pony roar
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« Reply #35 on: May 07, 2008, 07:13:26 PM »
You sound like my kind of guy, Uniballer. I fish a lot and have a few "ponies" of my own. What kind do you have?
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« Reply #36 on: May 07, 2008, 07:28:22 PM »
A 1999 35th anniversary edition. Its my first but definitely not my last. I fish a lot also, anything from perch to bass to blue marlin.
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« Reply #37 on: May 07, 2008, 08:06:44 PM »
I have a 911 and a Miata. Here in Kentucky, it's bass (largemouth and smallmouth), hybrid bluegill, and catfish. Maybe you can come down sometime and fish with me. It beats the hell out of dialysis.
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« Reply #38 on: May 15, 2008, 06:52:29 PM »
I am at my happiest when Rolando is feeling good  :cuddle;
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« Reply #39 on: May 15, 2008, 11:06:41 PM »
My top 5 in order!

*At home with my hubby, relaxing with my cat purring next to me, watching my TV shows
*Spending time with family, mainly my dad, sisters, nieces and nephew
*Writing (Stories, Poetry and Biographical things)
*Taking long drives alone in the country
*Spending time online
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
                  Hickman
Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #40 on: May 21, 2008, 07:20:10 PM »
Playing with my nephew. He brings such joy into my life!
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"To be happy is the choice I wish to make in spite of the circumstances that are strewn in my path."

1996 - started incenter hemo
a few months later, started PD
2005 - started incenter hemo
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2011/June - 15 years on "D"
Transplant - Tuesday October 18th 2011
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« Reply #41 on: May 22, 2008, 10:20:00 AM »
LOVE the new avatar tubes!!!
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« Reply #42 on: May 22, 2008, 11:20:54 AM »
Warm summer evening just at sunset and I'm swimming at my favourite beach, with the sky and water burning orange all around me. Oh let's have a full moon rising too, why not?
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« Reply #43 on: May 22, 2008, 11:55:53 AM »
When I'm warm!
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