8/11/2009

I had dialysis yesterday, and they made my dry weight (where they bring you back to every session) a few pounds heavier than when I left Friday. My legs and feet began cramping up after about an hour of pulling fluid. There was a halt to eliminating liquid then, but purification of the blood was still done for slightly more than three hours. Have you ever had your muscles cramping up so much that you cannot help but wince from the pain. They last for several minutes each time. My dry weight was raised a bit as they pumped some fluid back in me. They do not want me and I don’t want to go through that fiasco every session so I was bumped up a few pounds. You know what some people say; “no pain no gain.” What happened early last night was not really correlated to last afternoon, but it was a gain in my mind.
Since I’ve had my renal failure, all I have been hearing from everyone is how slow the process is for getting anything done related to transplant. Well I got a call from University hospital in Cincinnati. They want me to come down for a plethora of preliminary testing to see if I am a viable candidate for transplant! WOO HOO! There still will need to be all sorts of testing done to my possible living donors, but I’m scheduled to meet August 25 at the UC hospital.
For more than a year after my major automobile catastrophe, more than a decade ago, I had the constant internal question running through my head, “When will I be able to walk around normally like any guy would do?”
I even would bug my therapists with similar questions, but nobody could ever put a date on it. That truly was hard to handle.
The same was true of the question, “When will I get to go home and stay there?”
That really was the ultimate question I had while at Waterford Commons. An answer finally was heard a couple of weeks before it happened. Those 14 days flew by, because a date was in sight.
The feeling with dialysis was that it would never end, but now it will go smoother because the 25th is marked. It may be a while and living donors may not match, but at least we have a date to look forward to.
Thank you for the prayers. I AM SO EXCITED!!!