Sorry it's been so long since I posted - I started back to work and that's keeping me busy during my 3 hour treatments.
Kaylynn is doing GREAT! She is just about 15 lbs now, eating a lot of solid foods, sleeping through the night (11 hours! Yay!!
) giggling, rolling, playing and, as of tonight, creeping around on her tummy. She has her Daddy wrapped around her little tiny finger and knows just how to get him to feel sorry for her and pick her up without shedding a single tear.
Mommy doesnt (always) fall for those tricks! lol. Latest pics are at picasaweb.google.com/jdhartzog.
In dialysis news, I've been on NxStage for a full year now and I still love it. There are days when I wish we could have a "normal" night several nights in a row, but it's still SO much better than in center. (Those machines give me headaches and I have to take a nap after even going in everyday.) Our routine is that we set up the machine before or right after dinner, then get Kaylynn put to bed for the night (around 7 or 7:30pm) then start my treatment. Some nights when we're sluggish we might not get on til 8 or 9 though.
I had a revision surgery on my fistula at the end of August and the surgeon put a custom modified (during the surgery!) illiac artery stent in my arm because the vessel was so large - large but squiggly (the fistula gram looked like a bunch of snakes!). Now it's nice and straight and healed from the surgery. I start learning to stick the thing tomorrow! I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I've stuck my arterial needle before and am pretty comfortable with that but the venus was harder and I never was able to get it in myself. Now I have to learn how to stick throught the stent. I haven't been able to get a clear answer on whether or not I will be allowed to have button holes with this modification so for now I will have to use the ladder tecnique. :-p
And that's about all that's going on lately.
Hope everyone else is doing well as can be expected too!
Jenn, Kevin and Kaylynn
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