‘kidneys’ 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]
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]
Valganciclovir
aka Valcyte, which is used to treat CMV I usually don’t read the “patient prescription information” but was curious in this case. I had been taking one tablet a day since the transplant, then stopped it a few weeks ago because of my low white blood cell [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]
Range: Ehhh… Typical Toastie Problem
Range came. Range had no power. Installers blamed my electrical circuits. Flipped breakers several times, no change. Later, out of curiosity, I tried the burners. Burners work. The clock and control don’t work. The oven doesn’t work. What gives? Home Depot [Read More]
The good thing about being on prednisone
I can do two-and-a-half hours of yard work and not feel tired. The bad thing about being on prednisone is that my body is not at all conditioned to do two-and-a-half hours of yard work. This is going to hurt quite a bit. If anyone is going as Marj the Trash Heap for [Read More]
No News Is Good News
No news was good news regarding my post-transplant health throughout September. My creatinine went down to 1.4-1.5, which is great. I didn’t write about it. I only write about bad news. There’s not much therapeutic value to writing about good news. :) Today, the [Read More]
Things I Did On My Summer Vacation #1
I’ve had most of the summer off and will be returning to work tomorrow. I’ve been meaning to play blog catch-up and write a little bit about some things I’ve been up to, mostly over the last few weeks. But it’s getting late, so maybe I’ll start [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]
Just sleeping pets
Off to Charlotte for a triple-header of renal excitement. Then off to North Myrtle Beach for mini golf and Nook reading on the beach (with umbrella and plenty of sunscreen so I don’t get the melanoma I am at even higher risk of getting on top of mole-prone skin). Back [Read More]
