A new week. Vickie is going to the urologist this week to see what they say and possibly go also to Steve's Nephrologist. We will wait and see what the urologist has to say.

Today was the first time Steve has really noticed fluid he said his hands were tight. He is really trying to watch what he eats and drinks. We got his first blood work results back this week since removing his other kidney. Potassium and phosphors were both up a little but that was to be expected since he is recovering from surgery. He is doing dialysis 6 days a week but they had to up his solution from 20 liters to 23 to get better numbers when doing the blood work. His iron stores are back down and so was his hemoglobin. He will get epogen shots twice a week to keep the hemoglobin up and a dose of iron through IV when he goes to his next dialysis check which will be next week. No big suprise. Everything has to adjust now and things should balance out. The food and fluid intake is very important now that he does not have any kidneys.

The up side if there is an upside. No getting up in the night to pee, no stopping when traveling to pee, etc... Now we have to make him stop when we have to go.

Linda will start her test Thursday and Friday. Hopefully Friday we will have some good news.
Keep the prayers going that Linda will get through all her test.

Christy