Things for Jim have gotten a lot better. He continues to do well on his dialysis. He has been lucky enough not to have a gout flare up for the past couple weeks. This seems to get him down more than his dialysis does. Since his catheter has been repaired, he gets good drains and fills at night.
Someone recently posted this picture on one of the many Facebook kidney sites that I follow. When you see something like this, it really puts a lot in perspective. No one deserves to have this growing inside them.
A Polycystic Kidney - about the size of a football.
I continue to do searches every day and we continue to get people with questions about donating. We have some friends who are being tested and we continue to keep our fingers crossed that we will someday very soon get that call that will make Jim’s life much easier.
While I was in the waiting room a couple of weeks ago at Barnes, I ran into some friends of mine that were waiting with their family members going through a kidney transplant. Marcia was the mom giving her son Evan her kidney. I knew Marcia from grade school. After witnessing their excitement and actually being able to say hi to Marcia post-op (she looked great by the way), my excitement and faith that this WILL happen is what keeps us going. It may not be as far fetched as we thought…..in fact, hopefully it will be just around the corner.
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