So here's the scooperoni.
My donor finished his testing, and it looks good so far.
He says the Transplant team at the Cleveland Clinic has to have their committee meeting tomorrow (Tuesday the 10th), so we'll know some time after that. He's guessing that he'll hear from someone, as will I, so that's what we're doing now, is waiting for them to tell us the good news and give us dates for our surgeries.
So, I'd guess that by Easter, I'll have my transplant. That's just an optimistic guess, and that's what I've gotta be at the moment--optimistic.
Meanwhile, I talked to my nephrologist and my nurse today. So the scoop is that I have to cut back big time on my fluid intake until my transplant, because apparently when we try to take too much fluid off at once, that's a problem with the graft. So the solution is to not drink so much in the first place; that way I won't have to put up with having chipmunk cheeks puffing up over my eyes. I mean, in case my pictures don't tell you so, I have big blue eyes (beauty is in the eye of the beholder...you tell me)...so when my cheeks puff up over my eyes because I'm waterlogged, it drives me totally bonkers! So, it's less than a 500-mL bottle of water per day for me...and preferably no soup.
Thank God my transplant is coming up soon, because I love ice chips--to a damn fault!
Again, I'm outta here. ;-)
