Better

My potassium is normal now because I am on a low potassium diet. I am taking one less blood pressure medicine because my blood pressure is improving. My White Blood Count went up a little, I hope it doesn't mean anything.

Fluctuations

My potassium is a bit high and my blood pressure still goes up and down. With time, I hope everything settles. I will have a simple outpatient surgery where they will remove my stent, in 1 month. That's a little tube inside my ureter (that connects my new kidney to my bladder). They go in with something like a catheter. And in 3 months, I will have a biopsy to check that everything is ok, then another biopsy in 1 year. I am taking 14 medicines every day, some are anti-rejection, some are anti-infective, and some are for my blood pressure.

Back Home

The surgery was a success! We are back home. We still have a lot of pain and walk like old ladies. I hope the pain gets better soon because we can't sleep or walk. I took 15 prescriptions home. And my chest catheter is out, but they had to really dig it out because my flesh had grown onto it, it was very painful, and bloody. While Silvia was already in surgery on Monday, they had to dialyse me because my potassium was too high at 6.2, so my surgery didn't start until hers was all over at 3 PM.

It finally Happened!!!!!!

Hello, this is Denise's husband. The transplant happened yesterday and everything went ok. My sister in law is already talking, she looked swollen but they said that it was expected. She should be able to walk today.
My lady, when I tried to talk to her was going in and out because they had her in strong medicines cause she had very bad nausea. They overdose her and that made her sleepy, they say she should be better today and I would be able to talk to her.
I'm waiting for my sister in law to call us when she's awake so we can go and see them. My lady will write when she's back. I'm not much of a writer. Thank you very much to all the people that have wrote and donated to her. I hope all of you have a great day as it was for me yesterday when I heard the news that both were doing great!!! Take care bloggers!!!

Pre-Op Day

Silvia arrived on March 4rth, 2009 and will stay with us until the end of the month, Hector is arriving this weekend to take care of Silvia while she is in the hospital. The Pre-Op appointment is Wed. March 11, all morning long. Then I will go to dialysis in the afternoon. The appointments are for a chest x-ray, anesthesia clearance, an EKG, a final blood crossmatch, a final interview for Silvia, and a physical with the surgeons. I also have to do an extra dialysis session on Saturday, in preparation for the surgery on Monday.