Today Jim was admitted to Barnes Hospital for some pre-op work prior to the transplant. He is having 5 days of plasmapheresis done. This is a processing of removing some of the bad antibiodies in his blood so it will help with rejection of his new kidney. The "titer" levels need to be between 1 and 8 and with each of these treatments it will bring it down to this. This is a 2 hour process similar to dialysis.
After that he had his 3 and 1/2 hours of dialysis. He was brought back to his room around 7:00 pm tonight. He has stomach pain and headaches now with dialysis. Nothing his oxycodone won't heal.
He was also given IV medicine to put back in some of the good antibiotics that were taken out during the plasmapheresis.
Tomorrow he will have the plasmapheresis again. Nothing happening on Sunday.
Tomorrow....5 more days.....2 more dialysis. Almost there :)
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