My medical ride, WNM, picked me up by 11 am and I got to the clinic by 11:05 am. From not seeing the clinic lobby the day I returned to Mercy Dialysis on Friday not knowing about having heparin after any procedure before the 48 and 72 hour window, being admitted into MercyHealth, and being a stickler on having dialysis on my normal days being Monday and Wednesday, and Friday, I will make sure I have my treatment before my caregivers mention it. I want to prove to some people, the important ones in my care, I can manage independently at my age and state of disability I have now.
Since I was discharged from the hospital right after dialysis because I did not need another, my 4th colonoscopy, or an endoscopy on Wednesday, the use of heparin was back in the game. The Friday, May 9th, not knowing about not having heparin for 48 to 72 hours had sent me to Mercy Hospital to wait for the GI spec to see me, and he did not get to me until Tuesday afternoon to discuss the procedures I was having and my caregiver Jackie was having enough of the staff playing their game of not communicating with the specialist but they say they have. It did not please me, but we did finally spoke with the. GI specialist and formulated a plan that turned into a dialysis treatment before leaving the hospital after spending 3 long nights.
Dialysis today was… w o n d e r f u l because when my ride arrived at 11 am and it got me to the clinic at 11:05 am, I had barely gotten in the lobby when Jamie the technician called me to get weighed-in and hooked up. Instead of being 214 lbs from when weighed on the bed in the hospital, the scale did not show that I gained any weight. I got on the machine by 11:28 am and off by 2:24 pm. Anyway…
Treatment started with my blood pressure being low right away. Today I got 450 kilos of fluid out of me and we were aiming for 1000. Nope, BP would not stay above 100/50. Ugh! At least I had dialysis at the clinic today …