Yesterday morning I had my one month check-up with my surgeon. This involved blood work, an ultrasound and a meeting with my surgeon and the live donor coordinator. The blood work was the typical jamming of a needle in my arm and removing a few vials worth of blood. The ultrasound was pretty comprehensive. The technician took …
Save Some For The Trip Back
Let me ask you a question, when you go for a hike, or a walk, or a run, or maybe even a swim in open water, do you think about the trip back? Do you save some gas in your energy tank to bring you back home or do you push yourself to the limit? I …
Tuesday Derek Hospital Status
I'm still here in the hospital in the second fortnight of my stay. On Monday, as Logan mentioned, the feeding tube did become clogged and needed to be removed. It was a little reprieve for my nostrils, and that night I had the options of lying flat in the bed. I couldn't do it, but …
Sunday Adventure
Yesterday, I asked my parents to bring me a b.good burger and a vanilla milkshake for lunch. I made the assumption they would be down at 1:00, it may have been wishful thinking since I was napping in bed and it was past 12:30. I roused myself out of a deep slumber, and felt exhaustion in my body. …
Exhausted
Logan said most of what happened today. It's zapped all my energy and I've been pressing the pain button like a Pavlovian experiment. Hope to eat tomorrow and feel less narcoleptic and convince the nurses I don't need the catheter put in. That is all.
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