Doctor Visits

[judy]

How did it go Janet? I am praying for you and your Mom. You are in my heart.

[DianaB]

I'm waiting to hear too. You and your Mom have been on my mind and in my prayers since last night.

[lynne b]

I am waiting to hear also. I've been praying for your mom & you today too.

[Blueyes]

I hope everything is ok Janet. Your mom looks great, and is still so active for her age. I hope she feels a lot better after her dialysis gets going. You are lucky to have each other

[Janet]

I'm finally home...it's been a very long day and I think there are going to be more of them. Everything went just fine for the procedure to have the tube inserted. Mom made it through like a champ, but had some severe pain afterwards. I felt so bad for her. They filled her stomach up with that gas stuff (?) and of course they can't get it all out. I know what it feels like because they had to do that with me when I had my laporoscopies. She has a low pain tolerance so it was very painful for her.

They gave her another shot of pain meds in her IV and the pain seemed to be easing a bit. We had to be there by 7:00 this morning so by the time the procedure was over...she was hungry so we went to Denny's. She did very well there and ate quite a big breakfast.

After breakfast, we had to go to this kidney dialysis place called Wellbound. They had to flush out the tubing and mom didn't have any pain with this. She couldn't even tell it was being done.

They gave us some instructions on what to expect and we will return there on Monday to start the training. It's all a little overwhelming, but hopefully once the training starts...all the things we've been told so far will come together...at least I hope so.

Thank you for all your prayers....I appreciate it more than you'll ever know.

[DianaB]

Janet, I'm so glad to hear that everything went so well. I'm sure that some pain is to be expected with any type of surgery and I'm glad to hear that it didn't last long. I hope that everything else that you have to deal with goes as well. Give your Mom a hug from me!!

[Marilyn]

Janet, so glad to hear that it went so well!!!! There are a lot of people on dialysis. We live in a town that is the medical hub for our area, and our third dialysis clinic is being built. There is such high demand, they have to keep building bigger clinics. So hope that she does well. She sounds like a fighter, so she'll hopefully be fine and probably feel better once she gets going and gets the poisons out of her system.

You and her are in my prayers!!!!!!!