I'm not closing this blog down. I'm merely not going to add any additional posts.
I can take a hint, I really can.
I'm 40 years old...you'd think that, by now, I'd have learned to just shut the hell up.
So...I'm shutting up.
Please feel free to read all that I have already written.
I'm just not going to show up any more with any new blogs.
If you feel like you want to leave me a comment, please be my guest...and I'll answer you as soon as I'm able.
Thank you so much for reading (if you have).
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Almost two weeks after the big surgery...
Well, I am told that recovery will be slow, but sure.
This, I believe. For one thing, I'm experiencing this firsthand. Secondly, my dad told me he needed a good month or two to recover from his appendectomy...he was 25 at the time (and I'm now 40), so he was young and otherwise in excellent shape. Plus that an appendectomy is nowhere near as big a surgery as an organ transplant...so I can expect to need plenty of time to recover fully.
It has been almost two weeks since my kidney transplant, and I still feel far from "normal." I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I know what is meant by a new "normal," that I will be living soon. A lifetime of anti-rejection meds, extra cleanliness, hand sanitizers, face masks, extra caution when around people, or just avoid large crowds. Also, this is the start of a heart-healthy diet...which, although that may sound restrictive, it is nothing like the dialysis diets I had to follow for three years. Heart-healthy is actually a good way to go, for anyone...not just transplant recipients.
Last Thursday, two days after my initial release, I had to go back to the hospital for a few days. Had a killer headache, and couldn't keep anything down, which of course, was a concern for me, because should I not be able to keep my meds down, my new kidney would not survive for long. So, I checked into the ER, and spent the weekend in the hospital under observation. I was almost released yesterday (Sunday), but I asked to stay one more night while the doctor and nurses switched me from IV meds to oral meds, to be sure I was OK...which I was. So today, I'm back home. Good to be back home, but what caused that headache in the first place??? Stress, maybe??? If it was stress, I may wind up going through that often...that's just how I am...headache-prone. A CT-scan done this past weekend confirms...I have a benign arachnoid cyst on the left side of my head. It is only the size of a golfball or so, but nonetheless, it's there. Now, we're going to follow up with yearly MRI's, to be sure that it's not growing or changing for the worst.
Meanwhile, from not being able to drink endless water for three years, to now having to drink the usual 8 glasses or more every day, is quite a switch. My body is going through a lot of switches, so I can expect some instability...physically and emotionally, both. I wish my new kidney and me a lifetime of joy together!!!!!
I also wish my donor only the best of years to come with her one remaining kidney, and I am forever thankful to her for the "gift of life" that I have finally received.
Thanks for reading!! Love ya!!
This, I believe. For one thing, I'm experiencing this firsthand. Secondly, my dad told me he needed a good month or two to recover from his appendectomy...he was 25 at the time (and I'm now 40), so he was young and otherwise in excellent shape. Plus that an appendectomy is nowhere near as big a surgery as an organ transplant...so I can expect to need plenty of time to recover fully.
It has been almost two weeks since my kidney transplant, and I still feel far from "normal." I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I know what is meant by a new "normal," that I will be living soon. A lifetime of anti-rejection meds, extra cleanliness, hand sanitizers, face masks, extra caution when around people, or just avoid large crowds. Also, this is the start of a heart-healthy diet...which, although that may sound restrictive, it is nothing like the dialysis diets I had to follow for three years. Heart-healthy is actually a good way to go, for anyone...not just transplant recipients.
Last Thursday, two days after my initial release, I had to go back to the hospital for a few days. Had a killer headache, and couldn't keep anything down, which of course, was a concern for me, because should I not be able to keep my meds down, my new kidney would not survive for long. So, I checked into the ER, and spent the weekend in the hospital under observation. I was almost released yesterday (Sunday), but I asked to stay one more night while the doctor and nurses switched me from IV meds to oral meds, to be sure I was OK...which I was. So today, I'm back home. Good to be back home, but what caused that headache in the first place??? Stress, maybe??? If it was stress, I may wind up going through that often...that's just how I am...headache-prone. A CT-scan done this past weekend confirms...I have a benign arachnoid cyst on the left side of my head. It is only the size of a golfball or so, but nonetheless, it's there. Now, we're going to follow up with yearly MRI's, to be sure that it's not growing or changing for the worst.
Meanwhile, from not being able to drink endless water for three years, to now having to drink the usual 8 glasses or more every day, is quite a switch. My body is going through a lot of switches, so I can expect some instability...physically and emotionally, both. I wish my new kidney and me a lifetime of joy together!!!!!
I also wish my donor only the best of years to come with her one remaining kidney, and I am forever thankful to her for the "gift of life" that I have finally received.
Thanks for reading!! Love ya!!
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