Last Post!!

This will probably be my last post,since things are going back to normal!! I went and saw Dr. Ward last week he thinks things are going great very promising! I have some Dr. appointments lined up for next week with my Nephrologist/kidney doc,my cardiologist and with Dr. Ward. It is going to be a busy week!! I get my port/catheter thing out in about 4-6 weeks...they want to wait and make sure my platelets and creatinine behave...which I know that they will because I serve the most high God and he has healed me...can I get an amen!!! I will write another blog next week if the doctors say something interesting!!hahah! If not this will probably be my last blog...I can't thank you enough for the love,prayers and support you have given me over the past few months. It has meant a great deal. God bless you all.
Love,
Annie

Sorry it's been a while. Things are going great, tomorrow is my last plasma treatment! I'll see Dr.Ward on Tuesday,I'm looking forward to hearing what he has to say about everything! I will let you all know what my levels are this week and what Dr. Ward says! Hopefully I can get my port/catheter taken out soon! I miss taken showers I've had to take baths because I can't get my port wet...I haven't had a shower since the end of January!!

He is risen! Glory to God! Hope everyone had a blessed Easter. I was up in Mansfield at my sister and brother-in-laws place,had a great time! Things are just going great. I am down to one day a week at Good Sam. I was there this morning for my plasma treatment and don't have to go back until next Monday!!!! I'm hoping my plasma doctor (Dr. Ward) will stop my plasma treatment soon. My creatinine is around 2.89 or 2.98 can't remember...but it's still declining! Platelets are staying up...kidneys are working!

Happy Friday! God is so good! I am truly blessed and highly favored! I have been off dialysis for one week today! My blood counts came back great this morning...creatinine is going down it was 3.54 on Wednesday it is 3.33 today!!! my platelets were around 160 Wednesday and today they are 193! I am still on a somewhat strict diet no added salt,low sodium,no potassium foods or phosphorus foods and have been doing pretty well might I add which isn't easy to do since that cuts out almost everything except chicken and salad!!! Well today the nurse said that my potassium was low, when she called the doctor who I have been seeing up at good samaritan to give him the results of my blood work, she told him about it and he said I could start eating my potassium...meaning...I can now have french fries! mashed potatoes,bananas things that contain potassium!!!! Oh Happy Day!! As I am sitting here writing this blog I am also eating my lunch which consists of a whopper jr. and a small fry!!!! and it tastes soooo good! I just want to thank you all for praying for me and keeping me in your thoughts! If there is anything I can do for you just let me know. Just remember we serve a might God! And we are kids of a King! God bless you all.

Annie

Great News!

Hello everyone! I had a good week and am excited for the weekend! I have one more rituxan treatment...it's this Thursday. I'll let you all know what the doctor wants to do next. Hopefully start weaning me off of plasma! I got some great news today!!! The doctor that I see at Good Samaritan Hospital where I get my dialysis and plasma came up to see me. He read over my chart and counts and when he was done he said "why don't we hold off on dialysis for a few days and see how you/blood counts do"!!!!! Yeah praise God!!!! So, for all you believers out there :) I want to ask you to please pray that my creatinine(kidney function)level keeps going down and that my platelets keep going up and stay there! I will keep you all up to date on what's going on! Thank you all! God Bless

Annie

Well it's been a week since my last post...a busy week at that! Things are going really well. I'm still getting dialysis on Monday,Wednesday and Friday but I have a feeling that will soon change to two days a week! Kidney levels are doing good, the creatinine level is going down it was something like 7.89 when I went into the hospital....which is crazy high/little kidney function....and now it is 3.16!The normal range should be somewhere in the 1.0-.054. A nurse told me that it doesn't have to be that low to stop dialysis. Now I know that God has already healed me but the doctors need results=test scores visual things! Now that my levels are doing good and going down I'm hoping that they will take my dialysis from 3 days down to 2. I am getting ready to leave for dialysis if I see the doctor and there is new news I will update when I get home tonight or in the morning :) Hope you all have a blessed weekend and thank you for all the thoughts and prayers! God bless

Annie

TGIF! Had my first treatment of Rituxan yesterday. It went well I got there at 8:30 and got hooked up to an iv at 11:00. Once hooked up everything went smooth. I got done at 3:00. The nurses said the next treatment won't take as long. I am getting dialysis done right now. I will be done between 2:30 and 3:00 and then that's it until Monday! Have a nice weekend