Fluid Overload

So your kidneys make you able to urinate, getting rid of all the fluids you drink throughout the day, but if your kidneys dont work then what? Thats one the hardest things on weekends since I don't have dialysis for two days, watching the fluids. Since I do not have a  kidney all the fluids I consume stay in my body minus a small amount I am able to pee. Everything else just accumulates, I have to watch everything I drink and even everything I eat, because some foods have fluids in them as well like fruits, ice cream and jello. All those will just keep adding up and have to find somewhere to hide themselves, fingers,toes; for me it usually goes to my face. If I go way over, you will be able to tell. That's where the dialysis comes in, it cleans the blood but also takes all the fluids out that have built up in my body. 
I'm usually pretty good about watching my fluids, but like I said Friday night to Monday night is a long stretch, and sometimes I just cannot get enough of my strawberry lemonade and cold iced tea. 
I can overdo it sometimes, just because you do not really take into account how much we really drink in a day. I have to be careful not too be way overloaded with fluids, because then that can cause more problems. Blood pressure can be out of control and that can cause the heart to work harder, and so much more. 
And yes I did indulge in my strawberry lemonade this weekend, but I think I indulged to just the right amount. 
Thankfully tomorrow is dialysis day :P
* I had a bit of scare last week with my dialysis port, a lot of soreness and pain not directly on the site but in the general area, thankfully the pain seems to have gone away. I really was hoping for that so that I would not have to go in for a new one. 
No new updates on transplant, still just sitting ducks, doing my dialysis thing and popping pills to keep me on track. 
Just take it one day at a time <3

Insomnia

So its like almot 1AM...I guess its an insomnia night....the dialysis makes my body chemistry imbalanced or something, I read in one my kidney Q&A books. So on very many occasional night I will b up until the next morning. Its quite annoying.Being awake and fidgety and it being so quiet. So thought Id post on random odds and ends that had been running though my head.....Running thats a good one.......*O! so you think dialysis and kidney failure makes you so ill and feeble, that your just suppose to stay home and veg on the couch all day and act like your dyin. That’s so not true. I just ran/walked a 4 mile race two weekends ago. So hows that for sick and dyin? Huh? …Ok yes thers up and down days, but most days I’m up and awake and lively J So just a food for thought. Even being sick living life does not end..

Note: Also..if  you have kidney failure, means your kidneys aren’t working, means all the liquid you drink stays in your body because you don’t pee or pee very little, embarrassing to say…but true fact… anywho ….SO it was fairly warm this weekend…and I indulged in drinking a little to much iced tea….bad idea….gota watch my liquid intake a little more…my feet are beginning to swell, and I have another whole day without dialysis so gotta watch my liquids very close until Tuesday night L ……things happen…bad me. I feel so normal I sometimes forget that I cant drink iced cold tea to no end….ok then……mental note that I remember that. Ill just look down and see my huge swollen lil toes ……:P …OK so I will prolly write more later today when its atualllly time to be awake.


Good night, Im gonna see if my mind will stop screamin and be quiet enough for me to sleep for a little bit.....fingers crossed I fall.