Posts Tagged ‘pkd’
Dueling transplant lists
Everyone at Carolinas Medical Center is so much nicer than folks at the big med center in Durham. The choice of where to have my three years of transplant waiting counted would seem like a no-brainer, considering it is still true that wait times are slightly less at CMC. [Read More]
Saturday night post-nephrectomy blogging
An anti-climactic (probable) final post on the .nephrectomy. I’ll identify this as a phone post so I have an excuse for the brevity of and overall win-par quality of these thoughts. It has been over 7 weeks since my left polycystic kidney was removed, and it does NOT [Read More]
Nephrectomy and aftermath summary part 3
Mostly written at dialysis on Monday, January 31 This is just an exercise for me to complete at this point. While at dialysis treatment this afternoon, I’ve completed my Press-Ganey survey that one usually gets after treatment at Duke. I left a lot of [Read More]
Nephrectomy and aftermath summary part 2
I’m writing this from my regular dialysis facility. My friend C whom I’m staying with was nice enough to drive me from Apex all the way here this morning. The 10:30 time works much better today than my usual 3:30, and I’m glad DaV could accommodate. I [Read More]
An all-too-brief nephrectomy followup
Successful surgery. Some difficult times post-op at Duke Hospital, Wednesday through Saturday. Detailed a little in Facebook. Lots of pain, and scary amounts of unexpected incompetence. Will detail in here at some point. Home in own bed tonight. No oxygen-monitoring [Read More]
Stuff circa January 8, 2011
Dating I went on a date a few days ago, and it was heartbreaking. It was a stark reminder of why I rarely ever go on a date. I battled for ninety minutes to be funny, engaging, and charming. She often seemed genuinely interested in me. I rattled off feelings about being on [Read More]
Due date: two weeks
I am either being courageous and informative or merely grotesque. In two weeks, a surgery will carve out a little hole near/using my navel to pull out my horribly deformed left kidney that, along with its twin, has wrecked havoc with my life for two decades. In a June [Read More]
Hidden perils of dialysis! Big surprise…
I’m not even going to watch this. So how bad is it? My chances of leaving treatment in a body-bag tomorrow are better than my winning MegaMillions, aren’t they? This is why I need a kidney, like asap. I’ll be sending out a desperate plea sometime soon. [Read More]
