Ureter Closes up again. Surgery needed to repair.

Quick recap, my Ureter / Stent plugged up 2 1/2 months ago and my Creatinine shot up from my post transplant baseline of 211μmol/L  ish or 2.4mg/dL   to 1100 or 12.5.  Turns out my Stent had Barnacled up and blocked my Ureter and I was backing up with waste.  Symptoms were basically Stomach Flu [...]

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It’s all Easy until it Gets Tougher

So the last 2 months of ups and downs has brought out my inner Instabilities.  I’m guessing the lack of control in my life and low physical activity reducing my ability to burn off  my ” the Piss and Vinegar” have brought up the Not Nice person in  Me.  I ended up getting easily angered [...]

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Sept 15, Yee Haaa

So I got Lucky, probably dodged a surgery bullet. On the final dilation of the Ureter the scar tissue gave and the Ureter stayed open.  They took out my Internal / External  Stent and left me with a standard nephrostomy tube.   The Nephrostomy tube is still in me as a backup plan if the Ureter [...]

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September, 6 2010 JEEEZ !

So its been a while, here’s a quick synopsis. July 22 I was finally air lifted to Vancouver ( Air Ambulances are not that Glamorous ) where I had a 10 pm Stent Extraction preformed, under general anesthesia thank goodness,  it was  ” barnacled up ” and looking at my junk after waking up in [...]

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