Month +11: Worth The Effort. Wellness means different things for different. Remember, even the best laid plans take time to develop, and life is what we make it.
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Month +4: So This is Recovery?
+4 Months: For most people, when you say you're recovering from something, they typically think of you returning to normal, or at least to how you were before you got sick. But in reality there is no going back. You don't so much recover as reinvent yourself as you adapt to the person you have since become.
Day +88: A Day In The Life
There are many unusual happenings in the life of a kidney patientThese happenings do not end with transplant, you simply move from a DVD to Netflix and the comedy show continues. Like this afternoon when I got a pain in my arm and was sent to A&E for emergency scans and a series of injections.
Week +4: Realities of Recovery
Week +4: I have been at home now for just over two weeks and today is 4 weeks post-op. In many ways I feel better than I have done for years. My recovery has various aspects and each is important to focus on. The road to recovery is a bumpy one and they never really tell you about the rough stuff. They generally limit it to what life is like after recovery (those rose tinted spectacles I was talking about) but as you'll see, getting there a mixed bag.
Update: Fistula Formation
After a very strange and subdued COVID-19 spring, yesterday I was admitted to hospital for an operation to have a dialysis fistula formed in my arm.
Coming Home
Today I started my new routine of dialysis from the comfort of my own home. Frequent dialysis is better dialysis, however the treatment provided at the kidney unit really is the minimum they can get away with; roughly the equivalent of a single kidney working at about 5% capacity. Since lockdown I had been receiving … Continue reading Coming Home
Have a salad and form an orderly queue…
So it's happening, I am to be referred for dialysis and a kidney transplant. Have a salad and form an orderly queue. #TeamKidney
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