2:30pm Wednesday

We are riding the roller coaster as I call it again and we are ridding up hill. Steve expected everything to turn around immediately. It is going to take time. He didn't put out as much urine yesterday as he did the day before and he really got upset. His creatinine was 18 and has come down to 15 and potassium was 6 and came down to 4.5. Mostly due to dialysis yesterday. They did a couple hours of slow dialysis which he didn't like because he thought he was done with that. He will probably have to do it again tomorrow.

The doctor came in this morning and talked to us for quite a while and she could tell he was upset and told him not to give up, she has not given up yet it is just going to take time. She called his kidney and injured kidney meaning that it was out of the body packed on ice and traveled for a long of hours before it was put in Steve. It is in shock and when this happens it takes it long to wake up. She said you see more of this type of situations in the coastal areas because people who live on the coast have to wait longer for organs. She said its not that they don't ever see his situation they do but not as often. It is still making urine and that is a good sign. She said this could take 10 to 15 days to work its self out.



Right now he is receiving another bag of the anti-rejection meds. Which sucks because it makes him itch terrible and also makes the blood pressure go up. His pressure is up a little anyway because of the extra fluid he has, but they don't want to take much fluid off right now so when the kidney does decide to work it knows it's job.

I hope this makes sense. It seems like we get a lot of information and trying to relay and sort it
out sometimes is confusing. So if this sounds confusing it probably is. A nurse told us a lady that received a kidney in same situation that Steve is in and she finally named her kidney and then it took right off. Any suggestions for a name?

Christy