Dialysis went well today. The fistula worked fine and didn’t give me any flow issues or pain. However, they had to go with the new insertion point again. The tech said the original arterial needle insertion point has scabbed over too many times and turned hard, so we may not be able to use that site again. I now see why people have fistulas that becomes unusable over time and have several fistula operations.
I didn’t get much sleep last night again so I played games for about an hour then slept until 9:15 am. This is the best kind of dialysis session, where I’m asleep for most of it. Since today is Saturday, there wasn’t a nephrologist doing rounds and waking up patients. Once again, I left the clinic at an all-time low weight of 81.1 kg. That’s about 179 pounds. I haven’t been under 180 pounds since high school probably.
I’m kind of stressed out about my heart stress test. The results look bad based on the LV EF number. I think part of me is already assuming that I will be disqualified from transplant surgery and the 3x/week dialysis sessions are going to be a permanent part of my life.
Life with chronic diseases 