Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Update for the new year

I started dialysis on December 17th and so far I am adjusting to this very well. The process is not hard. The only problem is scheduling the four exchanges per day. I have to get four in each day and I have a 4 to 6 hour window between exchanges. The exchanges only take 30 minutes or less. I am still hoping to get a kidney soon but at least I know I can do dialysis without any problems. The only issue since I have been doing dialysis is that my blood sugar levels are out of control. The dialysis solution has glucose on it and it is being absorbed in my blood and the doctors have raised my medicines to try to help to fix the levels but so far it is not working. They told me the next step is insulin and I am not looking forward to needles. Thanks to all that have contributed so far. I really appreciate all of your help.