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« on: January 09, 2012, 09:11:48 AM »
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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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 09:51:07 AM »
Best of luck today.  I pray there are no complications.  They are looking to do the same to me.    :P   Hope all goes well.

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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2012, 10:49:59 AM »
Bajanne, What again, hope all goes well.
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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 11:28:15 AM »
 :grouphug; :grouphug;

Will be thinking of you!  :cuddle;
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 12:18:36 PM »
Hope all goes well.  Enough of this Bajanne!   :cuddle;
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2012, 11:27:00 AM »
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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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2012, 01:08:35 PM »
 :clap; :clap; :clap;

Glad it turned out all right!

Now, let's KEEP it that way!  :2thumbsup;

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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2012, 05:42:31 AM »
You take care now.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2012, 12:40:04 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2012, 06:25:40 PM »
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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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2012, 07:37:30 PM »
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,
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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2012, 05:54:20 AM »
Quote from: sullidog on January 21, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
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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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2012, 09:19:46 AM »
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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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2012, 06:23:08 AM »
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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« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2012, 05:26:04 PM »
I asked my surgeon about it today and he said I wouldn't want one of those.
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May 13, 2009, went to urgent care with shortness of breath
May 19, 2009, went to doctor for severe nausea
May 20, 2009, admited to hospital for kidney failure
May 20, 2009, started dialysis with a groin cath
May 25, 2009, permacath was placed
august 24, 2009, was suppose to have access placement but instead was admited to hospital for low potassium
august 25, 2009, access placement
January 16, 2010 thrombectomy was done on access
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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2012, 02:59:30 PM »
Did you ask him why?
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« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2012, 07:15:21 PM »
Nope, I should have though.
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May 13, 2009, went to urgent care with shortness of breath
May 19, 2009, went to doctor for severe nausea
May 20, 2009, admited to hospital for kidney failure
May 20, 2009, started dialysis with a groin cath
May 25, 2009, permacath was placed
august 24, 2009, was suppose to have access placement but instead was admited to hospital for low potassium
august 25, 2009, access placement
January 16, 2010 thrombectomy was done on access
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2012, 11:14:52 PM »
Well, I like it!  The bleeding stops very quickly - in less that 5 mins!
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