i have been feeling a few symptoms of not filtering out the shit in my blood. Still mild but I notice them. My blood pressure is getting back in control but that’s seems to be harder then it looks because a bunch of common blood pressure drugs also screw with kidneys...but it important cause high BP can cause damage to your kidneys!
Good news is I’m off the powdered styrofoam that reduces potassium and that is staying down and stable.
I’m in Brissy for two procedures. The first was yesterday and that was so Doc Shoozenbootzen could take a new BMA and then use that to graph my results on a table of life expectancy. Then that data goes to my Blood transplant unit for a discussion on “am I a good candidate for a transplant”. That decision then goes to my new docs at the PA hospital where they do kidney transplants (the only one in Queensland). They then decide if I will be a suitable receipient of a transplanted Kidney. Then we can start looking at donors.
Meanwhile tomorrow I get a fistula in my left arm, as prep for getting dialysis. They fistula is a join (in my wrist) between an artery and vein the result is that vein gets bigger over two months to the point that it’s easy to get big transfusion needles into the vein.
Saw an article saying an artificial kidney is 2-5 years away from trials!
More later
Chris
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