Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Its a new year


Well its a new year,a new start, new hopes. No new kidney yet. My aunt that was being tested, she did not completely match. The doctors say I have 80% antibodies and that if I took her kidney as is, that I would fight it and reject it. There is some procedures they can do to help lower my antibodies, but they do not want to have to do that if they don't have to. Doctors have come so far with more ways to get people kidneys, they told us we could try the paired exchange; where someone who has a donor that does not match, can match with someone else whose donor does not match. SO they are giving it about a six month time line to wait and see if we get a better match. They do not want me on dialysis any longer than that because then I can develop more health problems and being so young they do not want that to result. I already had a heart attack scare a few weeks ago. Had lots of chest pains and heaviness. Docs made me do a blood test to see if i did happen to have a heart attack, as well as a treadmill stress test. Thankfully the results were negative. 
I have been doing dialysis four times a week now, because they want to see if that will help lower my blood pressure and take off hidden fluid, I am not sure where I could be hiding it lol. Dialysis has been quite the roller coaster, since the nurses do not really know what my limit on taking off fluid is.Pull off too much and my blood pressure goes from 170/112 all the way to 80/32, that's insane, as well as can cause me to vomit and lightheaded. So needless to say dialysis has tired me out, at least I have my pup home finally to snuggle with :) 

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