Home Sweet Home

We are finally home!! Dialysis took longer than expected, as always. No problems, they were just late putting him on and had to slow down a little to give him 2 units of blood because his blood count was a little low. This is apparently fairly normal with kidney failure because the kidneys have some affect on how your body makes new blood cells. I'll have to do some more research on that, someday...

Dr. Thomas came by to see us off and give us instructions. Paul has lots of meds to continue to help with his kidneys and we were instructed to make sure he gets lots of exercise. We have an appointment with him on Monday to take out the Foley catheter and see how the graft took - the whole reason this all started in the first place. If the urethra is open, as it should be, and he can void well, he'll take the suprapubic catheter out as well and Paul will be tube-free. :)

We got home too late tonight to deal with getting Paul settled in and getting Ben in bed, so Ben is having another sleepover with G&G, Aunt Theri and Sam. We'll get him tomorrow and then we'll be one family under one roof again - yay!

Please pray this weekend that Paul's graft will have taken and healed well so he can be done with the tubes. It will be a huge relief to have that part of this ordeal over with!!

Here's to a quiet night at home. Good night.