The latest!!!

This morning GmaGrumpy got to go see Dr. Shin, the vascular surgeon. She wants to put a new graft in GmaGrumpy's right arm. The scheduled date to do this is Wednesday, December 3rd. It will be another teflon tube! She says her veins wind too much and are too small to try to make a fistula out of them. So....that is the new adventure! She is looking forward to Thanksgiving and possibly an earlier dialysis time. We'll find that out tomorrow! That's the latest!

Can it get any better?

So with all the exciting preparations going on for Gma great adventure this Friday....she came home early from dialysis today.
Her access is clotted again!!! Her last clot was Sept. 13th. This is her first clot since getting the new graft! After she got home today I was reading up on the problem via the internet and found out that her new AVF has greater chances of clotting than her old one. It seems that human blood vessels produce something to help keep you from clotting. The stuff they did the new one out of is the same stuff they make teflon coating out of and because it is "teflon" it does not produce....anything! So, here I thought we'd have weeks, months, years of no problems...and yee haw....she clots! I'm trying to find out if there is something we should be doing to keep it from clotting.....haven't found anything out yet! One of her transporters says we might be leaving the bandage on to long after dialysis. Sounds to simple. Who knows!
Stay tuned....tomorrow I'll tell you how it all went!!!
Dee

A Small Adventure!

Yesterday, November 3rd, Gma Grumpy arose from her bed, with Eddie's help!

She sat in her chair for 2 hours.

She finished up her absentee ballot and ate lunch at the table.

We went for a small walk outside, just around the yard.

Under the tree!
By the beautiful roses!

Eddie danced her back into bed!

She was pretty tired and her right foot hurt later, but she did really good!