Thanksgiving

Here is my post from Thanksgiving last year:

Hopefully this time next year I will still be alive from my bypasses, and have received a kidney transplant so life can go back to normal.

Normal = does not suck

Remember I was two weeks out of the hospital, not really mobile, and in the dark about a lot of health related things. A year later, things are better but still no transplant. Life is still kind of sucky but I’m not dead yet. Interpolating from some discreet data points, probably 35-40% of dialysis patients die after 3 1/2 years. Again, that’s probably skewed towards older patients but it’s depressing to think about.

I can’t remember what happened last year but we probably didn’t do anything for Thanksgiving. I don’t remember bringing my walker to my sister’s house. This year, I’m a lot more mobile and pretty much 90% recovered from the bypass surgery. We typically meet at my sister’s house during Thanksgiving since their house is bigger and they have a nicer kitchen. We either have a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, ham, and side dishes, or go full Chinese and have Taiwanese hot pot. I think we’re having turkey this year as my sister asked me to bring an apple pie from somewhere.

This year is also different because of COVID-19. Orange County is a shitshow and in the midst of a third wave of infections.The CDC released some recommendations on having a safe Thanksgiving but it seems like people are still going to travel. I guess we’re not 100% safe either since we’re two households. I’ll probably wear a mask this time; typically we don’t masks when we meet up with my sister’s family.

Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!