Well another year has gone and I survived the entire year on dialysis. Was it easy...no not most of the time, but again it could have been worse. I made it through another show! Next year I'm moving my musical rehearsals to after school and I think that will help immensely. I'm ready for a break and am so happy it is summer....just a reminder for those who don't know--teachers are not paid for the summer..or for any breaks.
The school year went pretty well and except for a few days I was able to make it through. I thought I was going to have 2 whole days to add to our sick bank leave, but this week did not go as planned. I have my first infection of Peridontis. It's common with PD and they said I'm lucky I haven't had it already. Let me tell you, it is not fun. For me it's been a lot of stomach area pain. The medicine requires putting extra fluid on in the morning and that makes it almost unbearable. So the last few days of school were rough. I also had to go back yesterday and get retested for something and then again next week. They are still waiting on cultures to come back and tell them what kind of infection. Thankfully I am pretty sure it was caught very quickly. I also discovered my iron is pretty low so they are going to start giving me iron, but can't until after I'm off antibiotics. I'm hoping that will help with my exhaustion.
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all my medicine for one setting
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Overall I'm doing good, just need to kick this infection and don't overdo it, which is harder than it seems.
I'm ready for a semi relaxixng summer with the kid. We don't have any real plans, except I'm working one week. We are going to have to keep it pretty low key and we need to do some major house organization and cleaning. And hopefully we will spend time with family and friends.
By the way I really appreciate the people who always check on me or have helped me out. those who have donated to me, I really appreciate not having to worry about my deductable last year and while I was dealing with cancer. It's hit this year at once-dialysis is expensive. Thankfully I had enough to pay off half of it and I'm trying to figure out the rest. Our deductable went up a lot this year, but at least I guess I have issurance to cover most of it, but I definately see how people go into bankruptcy so fast. If you have some change lying around and you are like "I don't need this" haha, feel free to send it my way via venmo @thtr4life (verification #0416) or
gofundme that my cousin set up. All funds will go to my medical bills. I wiped out my savings to pay for what I could so any over what I need now will go into savings for transplant travel/fees.
Also if you are interested in donating your kidney===please check out my pinned post. I really do want to stick around longer at least for the kid.
I don't think I can every repay the kindness people have shown me, but I sure will try. Thank you everyone. may you all have time to play and enjoy the sunshine this summer. Now I'm off to take a nap.
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My kitties!
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