Sharing a New Friend's Good News...

One of our dialysis friends, Chi, had her last treatment today. She is getting a kidney from her dad on Friday at OHSU. We are so happy for her! Keep her and her family in your prayers in the coming weeks...those first few weeks post-transplant are pretty stressful for everyone!

Spring Break

Dialysis has gone well this week. We have a new hero at the unit... Chris has successfully put Brian on the machine (and gotten him off) with no problems or infiltration...hooray! Tuesday and Thursday were both successful :) Dr. Wahba is still working on getting blood pressure under control. Switching or adding drugs is a little tricky because many of the drugs interact with the antifungal med he is on.

This is spring break for Ashley (and me) so we took her and her friend Jenna to an indoor pool in Eugene yesterday. It was lots of fun.

Partial Success

Well, they tried to use the fistula again today. It was a partial success...the first needle went in fine, but second needle began to infiltrate again. They moved that connection to the catheter and continued the treatment using both accesses (is that really a word?) today. There will probably be more bruising...we've decided that Brian does not look good in purple!

Really, Really Good News...

Great news today! Brian received approval of his Social Security Disability application. We've heard so many stories of people waiting a VERY long time to receive a decision on their cases (and many being denied) that we see this as nothing less than a miracle :) Thanks for all your prayers! By the way, Dr. Wahba has given the okay for the dialysis staff to use the fistula tomorrow. We're keeping our fingers crossed that things go better than last time!

Spring Is Here

No school and no dialysis today, so we decided to enjoy the beautiful spring weather. We took a drive out to the lambing barn at OSU to see all the new babies. They are sooooo cute!!


Dialysis is going okay for now. Brian's labs are looking good which means he gets to continue on 3 and a half hours...hooray!! It looks like it may be another week or so before they try using the fistula again. His arm is looking lots better :)