Jim has been feeling good on non-dialysis days. Dialysis days have been getting really hard on him. He gets terrible headaches and stomach pain after dialysis now. Our countdown to dialysis treatments is now 4. Can’t come soon enough.
Jim was in the hospital last Thursday for an infusion treatment. He will probably go into the hospital this Friday. He has to have 5 rounds of plasmapheresis treatments. This is where they remove plasma from his blood. Since Al and him are not the same blood type, this will help in treating his blood and getting it ready for the new kidney. It is similar to dialysis so he should be ok with it. Tomorrow will be his last dialysis at Davita. While the people there are very nice and he has grown to really depend on them, we won’t miss it. So depressing on the many lives touched by dialysis....some no hope. They are all so happy for Jim!!!
Al has been behaving himself. He was cleared by the surgeon yesterday. His blood pressure is good and his broken foot (.....don’t ask) is healing fine. We had dinner with him and Sandi on Sandi and hopefully the next time we see him he will be prepping for surgery.
I will be posting Jim’s progress next week so stay tuned..... and thanks once again for all your good thoughts and many prayers.
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