Doing Better

Well I have been on Dialysis since Feb and I am finally starting to feel better because of having it done.  I have lost so much weight with fluid and toxin buildup being removed (60 or so pounds) and some actual weight too that my clothes are all falling off.  Especially my pants, which can cause some embarrassment when they drop in awkward moments.  LOL

Mamma cat Sassy decided to get knocked up again and has given us her third batch of kittens in a year.  This time she had 6.  We have two males we kept from her first two litters, Bullet and Mac.  They are black and white and gray and white respectively.  They are the house cats.  The girls are outside cats but Sassy is the only one who makes babies.  This litter has 4 gray tabbies and 2 orange tabbies.  We don't know who the daddy of this bunch is.  We must have a new Tom in the neighborhood.  The kitties are 3 weeks old now and they are starting to get really cute.  NO we are not keeping any of them......maybe.  Mikey hauls one of the orange tabbies with him everywhere so hmmm......maybe.  The other night Wendy was feed and watering all the animals and saw that one of the kitties was missing.  After a thorough search of the house she got the flashlight out and started looking around the yard.  Turns out that when she made noise the kitty started crying and she found him in the shop.  He was hungry but otherwise no worse for wear.  Mikey had been playing in the shop and forgot to put the kitty back with his mom.  4 year olds....quite a test of strength for kittens.  LOL  Side Note**  Sassy will be making her trip to the vet next month so we can eliminate this problem she seems to have of not keeping her legs together.

I have been doing OK health wise.  I have had bronchitis and a sinus infection but my doctor has me under control.  A few antibiotics and steroids and I'm good as new.  I may never get rid of this cough but I have new nebulizer meds that break up the gunk so I can breath easier and boy do they help!!

Thanks for stopping by everyone.  Check back any time.

Temp on Friday

I was running a temp off 100.6 at dialysis Friday so to off to the Urgent Care Clinic.  Turns out I have an upper respiratory infection.  The PA gave me an antibiotics and told me to come back Tues if  I wasn't better.  Well I have a hideous cough that I have had since December and I hurt all over from it.  I do feel a little better but I can't seem to stay awake.  LOL!!
Bedtime for me now so I am putting in a Harry Potter and getting off to dreamland!!  Night All!!

Back Home Again!!

Hi Friends!!

Well I was back in the hospital again...twice.  I had pneumonia the first and then they sent me home.  The problem was my heart rate was 140 which is way too high.  When I went back to the doctor she put me back in.  They tried chemical means to get my rate down but that didn't help so they did a procedure to burn a few places on my heart so my rate would slow.  Yeah It worked.  So I am home now resting and getting better.

Hope you are all fine.  Looks like spring will be here early so get all the sun and warm weather you can!!!

Update?? Yep !!!

     I can finally say I am starting to feel better.  The Dialysis is tiring and sometimes upsets my stomach but I feel better with the toxins gone and all the water I was retaining.  I have lost so much weight in the last two months that everyone notices it (50+ Pounds gone at least).  
     Technically speaking the needle stabbing is no fun and I am bruised from armpit to elbow on my right inside arm where my fistula is.  That part probably won't get any better until the vein in that arm moves closer to the surface, but for now it's still pretty deep so there is a good chance of missing it on needle insertion.  Better than a port in my chest or something else equally nasty.  I was feeling not too good last week and I was running a fever.  Went to the doctor and get on antibiotics and steroids and I am feeling better now.  
     It is really good to be back home.  I can do a lot more things myself now and I push for doing more as often as I can.  I am eating a little better too.  I am actually a little hungry.
     That's all for now folks.  Thanks for looking in on me.  Have a great week!!!

Almost Home

Wow it seems like forever since I felt good enough to post here.  I am improving but it is a slow process.  Let me elaborate.


December 19/20  I was really sick all of December but on the 19th it was so bad I couldn't breath so the EMT's came and took me to the hospital.  Once there I struggled to breath and at one point my Blood Pressure dropped to 25/9 and my blood oxy was 17.  I got my very first helicopter ride when they did an emergency airlift to the hospital in St Paul.  I was stuffed in a little cocoon and away we went.  I couldn't see anything outside and I probably wouldn't have seen much anyway cause it was 2AM.  I was there in the hospital in St Paul for 10 days or so and missed Christmas and New Years.  Then I was transferred to a TCU (Transitional Care Unit/Nursing Home) for strength and endurance help to regain what I lost being sick.


Part 2 started in the TCU.  I got a nasty infection called Cellulitis.  My legs swelled up so huge they felt like they were going to split.  Back to the Hospital again for IV antibiotics.  I was there another week and they were able to get my leg swelling (Edema) under control and I lost 35 pounds of fluid weight in the process.  So back to TCU again.  


I have been here for a couple of weeks.  I do my PT and OT and walk and walk.  I am getting stronger and I feel much better.  My lungs have cleared however.....


Part 3.  I am now going back to Group 2 days to help me deal with the depression and anxiety that goes along with long term illness.  The other thing I will be doing 3 times a week is dialysis.  Boy that was a tough one.  I have known for a long time it was going to happen.  But it was just something that was going to happen sometime in the future and I never gave it a lot of thought.  I have to now.  So far I have to say that it isn't as bad as I thought it would be.  It is definitely no fun but I feared being sick afterward and the only thing that I notice is I am a little tired.


On the Bright Side.....I am having a Home Assessment on Tuesday and I may be going home within the next week.  My desire was to be home by Valentine's Day and it looks like I will be.  Please pray for me if you do that or think good wishes!!  


Thanks for spending a few minutes with me here and keep coming back as I will be updating how my treatments are going.  

I swear the only time I update here is when I have been in the hospital and there I was again not once but twice in October.  I didn't have an October this year that wasn't full of needles and all kinds of tests and Oh yes.....My first taste of dialysis.  Boy that was fun...NOT!!!  And then I got home from that weeks visit and got pneumonia so another week in the hospital for that. 

I promise I will try to write something at least weekly to keep you all up on events.  I did discover something today that I had not given thought to before.....Don't drink Crystal Light Lemonade while eating Pink Nerds.