The Red Brick Times

Had my third dialysis at the facility today. It's only a few miles from here. You have to take whatever regular time slot you're assigned, no if's and's or but's, and mine is Tues/Thur/Sat - 12:30-4:30, though if somebody with an earlier slot cancels they call the night before and I usually opt go early and get it over with.

Even after all the dialysis in the hospital there's still a ways to go to get me back to normal. Sometimes I feel pretty good, sometimes not. The chemo drug is starting to show some side effects too. I just noticed yesterday that my whiskers are growing more slowly, or maybe not at all now, and suddenly remembered that that was the first thing I'd noticed way back in the early '90s in my other brush with modern pharmacology. I was on more types and much heavier doses then. Got bald, got sick. Hope that shit doesn't happen with this one.

Good days, bad days. Just like real life.

Kidney quote of the day:
"Pretty much everyone I've seen here who qualified got a kidney after about a five to seven year wait."
~ said to me by a Nurse Practitioner in charge of two facilities in Lorain County. Got my attention you bet.
Posted 9:55 PM by whatley (1) comments

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Hang in there, Mookie. We can't do it for ya, but we're rootin' for ya.

# posted by  A. O. : December 27, 2007 11:25 PM
 
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