Steve did blood work on Monday on his birthday. He now actually qualifies for being older than dirt so what does that make some of you who are older? We celebrated by going to pizza hut with the girls and several family members and friends for pizza.

We waited all day for his blood work results. I had to call 3 times, third time was at 10:00pm and the creatinine was back down to 4.3 yeah!!!!

Today was a follow up with the urologist Dr. B. We spent about an hour with her going over everything from dialysis, to kidney disease, the big bad diet, his blood pressure, etc... You name it we talked about it today. Doctors have now become our hobby. New doctor, Dr. W was brought into the mix today. Dr. W is a Nephrologist at KU and Dr. H urologist referred us to him. Dr. W is a doctor that specializes in disease of the kidney and urologist specializes in the plumbing of the kidneys, bladder, urethra, etc... Our appointment with Dr. W is Monday the 23rd. Steve now has 5 doctors. We hope to learn more about the transplant proceedings. We just want to skip everything else and go straight to the transplant.

We are staying very busy, Blair with basketball districts approaching games 2 or 3 times a week and practice on the off nights. Emily is studying for nursing to take her boards for RN in May, Steve's cows are getting ready to have babies. I in my spare time (none) am trying to plan Emily's wedding (July 25th mark your calendars). My title is now administrative assistant. We just need a couple more things to do and we will be totally insane.

Oh one other thing Steve's doctor mentioned today to him was try and keep yourself well. We discussed wearing your seat belt at all times, don't get kicked by a cow, lose a very pounds, eat less protein etc... This shouldn't be to difficult.

You know what we know, well this is most of the good stuff....
The Schmitz's