Final Clinic Appointment?

During my video call with UCLA Transplant Center yesterday, the doctor (another one that I have not met before) scheduled the next appointment as an in-person meeting. She also schedule me for a kidney ultrasound. I get a feeling I will need a lot of these, primarily due to the cyst/tumor in my sister’s kidney that was left in there. The transplant committee did say that the risk of it becoming cancerous is very minimal, and it was too small to remove. Instead, they will just keep an eye on it with regular ultrasound scans. That probably means I have to go to UCLA regularly for ultrasound appointments.

She also mentioned that they wanted to see me in-person because it would be my three month appointment. Typically, the transplant center will turn the patient over to their local doctors after three months if everything looks good. I am basically only seeing nephrologists at UCLA at this point, so I would start seeing my regular nephrologist. She has been my doctor well before dialysis so probably five years at this point. She was also the doctor that convinced me to go to the ER based on my irregular heartbeat that turned out to be a possible heart attack and ended up requiring a CABG surgery.

Let’s hope with my blood sugar is better with the increased insulin dosage, and labs come back normal.