I woke up this morning at around 4:00 am and my knee was hurting pretty bad. I was worried about damaging the new kidney during my accidental fall, but I was still peeing all night so that seems fine. My knee however, hurts whenever I put weight on it so walking was pretty difficult. I also got a bruise in the middle of my right palm so that hand hurts too.
I got to the clinic around 5:40 am and was done in about 10 minutes. Since the cafeteria did not open until 6:30 am, I sat downstairs and waited. At around 6:20 am, I slowly waddled over to the next building to get some breakfast. I looked like an old man, limping my way up some stairs into the cafeteria.
Instead of the same doctor, I saw a nurse practitioner that I have not met before. They have a huge team of people, and all seemed to be quite knowledgeable about my case. Again, everything looked fine. Most lab results out of normal range was expected, either from surgery or the new medication. My creatinine level came in at 1.4, which is just barely outside of the normal range of 0.7 to 1.3 for men. I don’t think I’ve ever seem my creatinine levels that low since when I found out about my kidney issues, I was already at stage 3 of ESRD.
They also reduced one of my anti-rejection medications. In fact, the attending physician wanted to remove that drug from my list but they decided to wait for another set of labs. My liver function was a bit off so we temporarily stopped two more medications. Potassium was about the same at the border between normal and high, and phosphorus dropped again to 1.7. I was told to try and adjust through diet before increasing the phosphate supplement. Other then my stupid fall, everything is going great.
The home health nurse may stop by today. It’s already 4:00 pm and I have not received a call yet. Due to my bum leg, I can’t go out for a walk anyway so I’ll just sit here and wait.
Life with chronic diseases 