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Killing two birds with one stone

Being I had 3 relatively intense bike rides this weekend, and I'm not planning on riding today, I thought I'd take this opportunity to update everyone on Edie.

But before I do that, I wanted to apologize to any subscribers who may have received duplicate and/or triplicate notifications of posts. There was a glitch in my Subscribe2 plug in when I upgraded my blogging software. I have since fixed that problem, and you should no longer receive duplicate and triplicate notifications. Of course, you may not receive any notifications, so this post is also a test of that fix.

Ok, enough with the administrative stuff!

Last Friday, Edie had her catheter (the one for her dialysis) removed.

She had been resistant to this prospect initially, since she was concerned her kidney problems would return, requiring her to start dialysis again, and she didn't want to have to go through reinserting it. Apparently inserting it was somewhat painful.

The nephrologist was concerned that if the catheter was left in too long, it could become infected, and I had heard stories about muscle tissue, or whatever, growing around the catheter, making the removal even more difficult and painful.

Eventually, after her last creatinine test was still below 3.0, she relented, and it was removed.

I was hoping that would boost her spirits some, but it seems to have done more to boost my spirits than hers.

Edie also stopped taking Ativan 3 times a day for anxiety. I was unaware she was taking this drug, but it sure answered the question why she was sleeping more than Morris.

Fortunately the drowsiness was the only side effect she experienced, and hopefully she won't take this drug any more, as I just discovered there are quite a few other more serious side effects, I'm not interested in learning about first hand.

Other than that, everything else is normal. Edie's counts are all still good, and this is her week off from chemo, so I'm guardedly optimistic, she she'll be back to her usual self very soon.
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Becky said…
I'm glad to hear Edie is doing better. Is she getting her energy back?

How old is Morris?
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