The Back of the Medic

Rory has been feeling pretty crappy since he got out of the hospital on the 5th. He has not been able to keep a lot down. He started having a discharge from his catheter exit site last week, which they cultured. Nothing major popped up. Tuesday, the reason why he was feeling lousy became abundantly [...]

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Well, it is now 5 days since they replaced Rory’s dialysis catheter, and it seems to be running well (knock on wood, or whatever). He still isn’t feeling well, but seems to be improving ever so slightly. No noise from his nephrologist or UCSF about last Wednesday’s cardiac cath. Please relist him, guys! Back to [...]

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Well, this has certainly been a crazy week. After Rory was hospitalized and did get dialysis on Monday, we expected him to have surgery on Tuesday. Well, that didn’t happen, but that was due to lack of an operating room to do it. So, he was scheduled for Thursday. In the meantime, he had a [...]

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Rory was hospitalized today. He has gone almost 1 week without adequate dialysis, was getting very tired, confused, and feeling sick all the time. After this weekend of trying (and failing) to dialyze him, we finally convinced his docs to hospitalize him. After several hours, they put in a femoral dialysis access. This is a [...]

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