Ugh, I’m so dead for tomorrow. I just weighed myself and I’m at 83.2 kg without much clothing. With clothes and shoes, less my 0.5 kg adjustment, I’ll probably come in at 84.0 kg. I was below 80 kg on Thursday so I’m way over my last weight, and dry weight is still 78.2 kg. I heard a tech bitch at another patient Thursday for being 4.5 kg over, with talk of ER visits and ventilators. If I’m ~6 kg over, they are going to freak out and schedule additional sessions.
I’m not even sure what happened. I measured myself at 82.1 kg this morning, a bit high but manageable. I had some coffee (~300 mL) and an egg sandwich for breakfast. I even skipped lunch. I don’t think I ate or drink anything else, except for a few Korean crackers at lunchtime. Don’t know why the scale read 1.1 kg gain. My mom made beef curry over rice for dinner. There’s no way I can eat that: rice and curry sauce is mostly water. She also baked some Costco mini-eggrolls so I had a few of those so I wouldn’t starve. I really think the dialysisi center went too low with my dry weight but they’re hesitant to raise it after lowering ti consistently over the last few months. Not sure what I’m going to do. If I think I can be disciplined over the next few sessions, I can “cheat” and do a bigger adjustment before/after so it looks like a gradual decrease over time. Of course, the problem gets worse if I keep gaining fluid weight. I guess I can always take off my sweatshirt and sh9es and another 0.5 kg for the remaining clothes. That will lower the baseline but that also means taking longer at weigh-ins going forward.
Life with chronic diseases 