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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Bajanne on January 09, 2012, 09:11:48 AM
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Right now I am in the Day Case Room being prepped for surgery. My graft keeps getting aneurysms, so it is going to be changed AGAIN!!
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Best of luck today. I pray there are no complications. They are looking to do the same to me. :P Hope all goes well.
:grouphug; :flower;
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Bajanne, What again, hope all goes well.
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:grouphug; :grouphug;
Will be thinking of you! :cuddle;
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Hope all goes well. Enough of this Bajanne! :cuddle;
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It all went very well. I came out of hospital last night. The doctor asked my uniit to give me dialysis before the operation, which they did. The tube that they put in this time can be used right away. Not exactly looking forward to D tomorrow when they will using fresh areas (ouch!!) But everything went very well. thanks for your caring thoughts.
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:clap; :clap; :clap;
Glad it turned out all right!
Now, let's KEEP it that way! :2thumbsup;
Aleta
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You take care now.
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The graft repositioning went very well. They are using lidocaine so I don't feel anything (not even when I was infiltrated!!) Now I have another problem - high blood pressure. This is so strange. I am hypertensive, but for the last three years I have been having problems with very low blood pressure. So for the last three years I have been off blood pressure medication. Now my blook pressure started skyrocketing since last week. Now what is very strange is that I have not been having a fluid problem recently. I even went in at my dry weight on Wednesday. I have been taken prescribed medication for the high BP since Monday but it has not been having an effect. I had told the doctor that I used to used Norvasc, but he prescribed Losartan (Nusar-50)(Losartan Potassium) and that has not been making any dent. On Friday my BP coming off the machine was 204/117. They nearly sent me to ER, but they gave me some pills and then after a while it was 167/90 and they let me leave.
When I came home, my daughter told me to take of the magnetic bracelet that I had been given by them as part of my Xmas gift. I am waiting to see if there will be any difference at D on Monday.
What do you guys think??
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I'm not sure about the bp but was wondering how was your new graft able to be used right away?
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Hey Baj, don't know how I missed this. But glad to hear it all went well for ya! Do you think the magnetic bracelet had anything to do with your BP? Would be interesting to know, now that you have taken it off!
Keep us posted on that. You are the most upbeat person I know, yet you have been through the Wars, my friend. Time for "smooth sailing" don't you think?
Again, glad surgery went well,
lmunchkin
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I'm not sure about the bp but was wondering how was your new graft able to be used right away?
The vascular surgeon had told me and the dialysis nurses that he would use a new kind of graft which could be used the same day. AFter the operation when I went back to dialysis, the supervisor gave me a little handbook to read about the graft. The name of the graft is 'Vectra' (I think)
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http://www.bardpv.com/pdfs/Vectra-7p.pdf How to implant a Vectra graft Fascinating reading.
The graft is made of ThoralonTM, a self‐sealing polyurethane material
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Thanks, Kitkatz! I have saved that and will print it out for my unit. It is more concise than the booklet they gave me to read!
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I asked my surgeon about it today and he said I wouldn't want one of those.
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Did you ask him why?
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Nope, I should have though.
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Well, I like it! The bleeding stops very quickly - in less that 5 mins!