I’m normally so nervous leading up to an appointment, but
today I had an amazing amount of peace and calmness. It’s easy to be nervous
when I go to appointments, it’s not as bad as I’m sure it would be if it were a
check-up for cancer, but it’s pretty close. I’m always scared that I’m going to
go in and hear that my function has dropped and I’ll need to start dialysis
soon. I also feel so out of place when I’m in the waiting room and look at all
the retired men and women who must be in their 60’s or even older. Many of them
have obvious degenerating health but there I am, young and healthy looking
(this is how I see myself anyways). It gets even more awkward when they call me
back and ask me all the usual questions like: are you experiencing swelling in
your legs, feet, ankles, or blood in your urine, or… the list is pretty long.
Then they go over my medications and make sure nothing has changed. After I
answer all these questions with the nurse I have to go and wait again. I’m sure
your thinking to yourself right now, how long am I going to have to wait for
this update…
Today, I saw the nurse practitioner and the doctor. I really
like the NP, she is nice, soft spoken, and seems to have a really good understanding
of kidney related issues. I met her in the hospital after delivery and today
was the first day I had seen her since. She said that everything looks stable
and it seems like my function has returned to base line for me. When I
delivered M my creatinine had jumped to 3.03, it went down about 3 months later
and today it is still where it was 3 months ago. The best news is that my
protein spill came down to less than 1 gram (950 mg). She said that we can
start trying to have another baby as soon as we are ready and everything looks
fine to try again. My neph came in next and looked over my labs and said
basically the same thing. He added that we would stop the Enalapril at my next
appointment and then we can start trying to get pregnant then. He was happy
with all the lab results and I’m happy that my protein came down. Even though
my function did not increase it stayed the same over the last 3 months and that’s
still really good news.
I’m happy with the results and I feel relieved that my
function is stable. We all agreed to talk about trying again in 6 months and for
now I am going to try not to think about it too much. Getting pregnant can easily consume my thoughts, but I have more important things to focus on for now.
Kidney updates from last year:
http://2kidneybeans.blogspot.com/2013/10/october-22-2013-dr-appointment-update.html
http://2kidneybeans.blogspot.com/2013/08/kidney-update.html
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