Another long day. We started in St. Joe today with an appointment with the vascular surgeon. He looked at Steve's arm to see what kind of veins he has. This appointment was to start the proceedings for a fistula in his arm for dialysis. This appointment was at 8:30 this morning. Then they told us he needed to get an ultrasound of his arms. When the veins are not visible then want to make sure they know where and what they look like. So we said ok. They said they couldn't get us in until 3:00pm. Both of our mouths fell open. We must have looked pretty bad because they decided to squeeze us in between other patients at the surgeons office. We thanked them and told them that would be great because we had another appointment in Maryville with the oncologist.

We were suppose to see Dr. AJ at 1:30 today at 2:45pm we finally got in. 1 doctor and 2 staff short was the problem. We walked out of their office at 3:30pm. Steve is set up for another ct scan in July. We discussed doing a biopsy again today on his suspicious kidney. Dr. Brown will say "no way". I am planning on calling her tomorrow. No change from the scan he had right after surgery to now. Dr. AJ was surprised that Steve is already on the transplant list. This is our plan to keep surprising the doctors. We will post more after the fistula surgery has been completed.

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