Saw my regular Post transplant Doc and Nurses.
Blood work is good ( 2 back to back weeks ).
Creatinine 201, very low 200’s seems to be my baseline now. Hemoglobin jumped 10 points to 123 ( above 130 is normal for a man. So by association then I AM NORMAL ! , a few readers will understand this statemnet and beg to differ )
my Prednisone was dropped 2 weeks ago from 10mg 1x/day to 7.5 and now to 5mg. This is Awesome as well.
I got my “back to work” Dr slip as well so I should be starting rearly January again after 6 crazy months off. This is a big relief as the last 6 months has saw us down close to $ 10 K dispite having good work benifiets and health care coverage. It’s about 1/3 travel, hotel, meals etc for treatments, 1/3 lost wages and 1/3 misc.
This is a small amount compared to what a lot of people going through an illness lose but it impacts things for us regardless..
Bottom line though is its a small price to pay for a few decades of health right !!
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