March 23, 2018
Friday
NOTE: I swear I thought that I put a post up here from the day we forgot that it was Mordecai's 9th birthday. And, that is now the 2nd year we have forgotten the anniversary of my transplant. Liz put a post on my Facebook page on March 9th at 9:00 pm as we realized it was the 9th anniversary. And, I commented that we didn't even have a cake this year.
So, anyway I then did my prep for the annual visit to Dr. Lewis, this last weekend, including the 24 hour urine collection on Sunday (good day to pee in a big bottle for 24 hours), and labs on Monday when I turn in all that urine at St. David's South Austin Med Center.
As always, my anxiety slowly increases through the week until Liz and I meet with Dr. Lewis at the Kidney Transplant Clinic. Today we got up there and were quickly trying to prepare to tell the nurse all the different docs I've seen over the last year and decide that we really should do some homework listing over the year so we don't have to re-create a list while waiting for the doctor.
Dr. Lewis comes in and examines my chart, my labs, and my body. I ask him if the 1.2 creatinine level is okay and he responds, "No... it's spectacular!". I was thinking it is okay but maybe a little higher that it was at some point. He did add that he wants to cut my Myfortic back some and do labs again in April to check.
We also discuss my ongoing forgetfulness and he can refer me for some cognitive testing, my hearing problems (which he thinks may be covered under my medicare), my arthritic joint in my hand, and various other medical issues I can't remember right now.
He was surprised my blog has over 100 thousand hits now. Me too. So, we leave there in a happy mood.
