Posted 10:37pm
Steve was able to get a room on the floor today. ICU kicked him out they needed the bed for someone worse than him. He is not a happy camper and I can't say I blame him. His room came with a roommate that was very noisy.

Now he wished he would have just come home. He is doing pretty well. He was taken off his pain pump this morning and started taking oral pain meds. They have worked pretty well today. He thinks this surgery was as bad as the other one when they took the first kidney out. I told him this was better because the pain was under control better. Last time he was cut from top to bottom, this time he has 3 poke holes and about a 4 or 5 inch incision.

He was up and walking 3 times today. The last was about 5:00pm and he didn't feel good after that. I think he probably is pushing it a little too much. The hospital has been so full there is not enough beds for everyone so if things go good the next 12 hours I am thinking he will be coming home tomorrow.

We should here something next week about the kidney they sent off, they don't think it has cancer but they have to be sure. He is suppose to heal for 6 weeks and then I guess he will go from there. His creatinine is on the rise but they don't seem to be to worried about it. He had dialysis yesterday and today and he is suppose to skip tomorrow. That was an ordeal. I was very surprised, they don't seem to be as far a long as the center in St. Joe. They couldn't believe we do hemo home dialysis. Steve and I knew more than both the techs we have had the last 2 days, don't think that wasn't scary. Steve had to throw a little fit to be able to stick his self for the treatments. They weren't going to let him. Our diaysis instructor in St. Joe told him to never let anyone else access the fistula in his arm except himself. He threw his fit and we won.

I am tired so going to bed, will try and blog sometime tomorrow. Please keep praying that the transplant is in our very near future.

Love to all Steve and Christy