I just weighed myself before breakfast today. I really didn’t eat much yesterday after dialysis so my weight actually went down some more. Ignoring the fact that measurements are from two different scales, and a different change of clothing, I weighed only 85.7 kg. That’s only 189 lbs. Less than a year ago I was at ~240 lbs so I lost about 50 lbs in 8 months. The weird thing is that my ankles are still a bit swollen from edema. They look fatter now than when I was weighing >200 lbs.
My mom is worried that I’m not getting enough nutrition, and somehow that will disqualify me from a kidney transplant. I’m not even thinking that far ahead since UCLA keeps rejecting my donor candidates. Also, the monthly labs at dialysis tests for albumin or protein levels in blood. My result was 4.3 with the normal range being 3.5 to 5.0. I’am still pretty tired though, but there may be lots of other reasons for that instead of malnutrition.
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Here’s a chart from Fitbit for this YTD:
Life with chronic diseases 