Hello, good morning, and welcome to another wonderful day/blog. I do not have a lot of time this morning to write a long blog because I have personal cares from 7 AM to 9 AM, and around 8:30 AM I have dialysis treatment for 3 ½ hours this morning and afternoon. I know I have not written in a blog for a month, and I do not have an excuse. I did have a rough month in August when it came to dialysis treatment, and I had my catheter replaced because the first one stopped working correctly. A week before I had the procedure to have the catheter replaced, I could only dialyze an hour each dialysis day before the machine beeped so many times because the arterial/venous lines would become problematic. I have learned that my blood is thick while my blood clotted the graft that was placed in July 2019 a week after it was placed in the right arm. I have been put on Warfarin, and now my nephrologist, nurses at the dialysis center, and dialysis technicians are making sure that my INR/PROTIME numbers during blood tests each week on Thursdays is looked into to administer the proper dose of Warfarin each week is working properly. I have been told that I have been put on the drug for six months but that can change as time moves forward.
Despite how dialysis has been going since the new catheter has been placed, I do have to admit that allowing God to direct me on how my life goes each day still continues without too much conflicts of the mind these days. I am going with the flow as time passes. I am getting better at letting life play whatever the day brings. I did get very frustrated in August because of dialysis treatment being problematic for a few days, but the doctors and nurses told me that dialysis catheters are tricky pieces of machinery at times. I won’t argue about that. I pray and thank God for a very good dialysis day each day. I also have to say that I have been frustrated for another reason as well, but that will have to wait for another blog. I have to get ready for my day in a few minutes. I promise to be back when I get home from dialysis. Goodbye for now and do have a good morning.
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