‘health’ Archives
End of prednisone
Have I really been on prednisone for six friggin’ months? I would’ve come off three months ago, but my Durham neph overruled my Charlotte neph. I appealed to my Durham neph today, and I get to come off of it. I’m really, really glad, both to get off of it [Read More]
Gym
Speaking of self-confidence, I paid for a gym membership yesterday. I’ve done this before, maybe eight or nine times over the past many years. I never quite get my money’s worth. Sometimes I’ll even pay months and months of fees just for the knowledge that [Read More]
Playing the blood clot card
I used that phrase a couple of days ago. As it turns out, if there was a literal blood clot card, it might look something like this. This is actually from a prescription for a compression garment used to treat thrombosis. They do make them for men, though you can’t [Read More]
The good kind of blood clot
I should follow up after my last post. It felt like a waste of an afternoon to stop by urgent care and then Duke Radiology to find out that I’ve got superficial thrombophlebitis, or a blood clot in a vein close to the surface of the skin. I know, I needed to have deep [Read More]
Sorry beats safe
I shouldn’t have called the CIGNA 24-hour nurse hotline for advice. Of course they would tell me to go to the ER. I should’ve just gone to bed as I had planned. But the swollen leg veins just didn’t seem right. The paranoid internet bulletin-board-posters [Read More]
More fun with CMV
When I landed at Miami International Airport on Thursday morning en route to Cancun, I made a call to the nephrology office in Charlotte to return the voicemail they had left on Wednesday. They had my latest CMV results. Despite my intensive course of Valcyte, my CMV level [Read More]
Cytomegalovirus
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cmv/DS00938/DSECTION=symptoms CMV. A common complication for immunosuppressed folks. Fun stuff. Totally treatable. It should become inactive with medication, but still. I think I’m experiencing an anti-placebo effect. Now that [Read More]
Things I Did On My Summer Vacation #3 New Bike
Back in May 1996, I acquired two expensive but worthwhile items. One was Aremid. I suppose he was worth it; the jury’s still out. Just kidding, Big Baby Aremid. I also bought a bike. I was living off campus and had a job on campus, maybe less than a mile away. Bike [Read More]
A kidney transplant update because I don’t think I’ve done one in awhile
Actually, it seems to have been about three weeks. No news was good news, I guess you could say. My creatinine dipped below 2.0, down to 1.9. Still not great, but less worrisome. I’m only getting blood work once a week, and I don’t know what last [Read More]
