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The graft took and his urethra looks great so the doctor took both of Paul's catheters out today. Hooray!!!! It's so nice to have that part of this ordeal over with. Thank you for the prayers; they were definitely answered today!

Paul had dialysis today in the outpatient clinic. It's a really nice facility. I'd say they have at least 60 chairs & machines and they were pretty much all full, all day. I never realized there were that many people that get dialysis. They have a huge tropical ocean mural painted around the room, so Paul fit in quite nicely with his fish quilt. We'll have to be sure to get a picture of it on Wednesday. Paul walked himself in and out of there, then into Dr. Thomas' office. By the time we were done getting the catheters out, he needed the walker. That's understandable though because he didn't get much lunch in the dialysis clinic and dialysis is pretty taxing on your body, so he was already weak.

The nurses today said that they only check bloodwork once a month in the clinic. We told Dr. Thomas this and he's going to call over there tomorrow. He wants them checking Paul's blood once or twice a week because we don't think he'll be on dialysis in a month. Just given all the other signs (appetite, fluid retention, urine output), I think his kidneys are just about recovered. We'll have to see what the bloodwork shows.

Both of my boys ate really well tonight. Paul had 4 pieces of pizza. That's the most he's eaten in a month... I think his appetite is coming back because he had second helpings of soup on Saturday and did pretty well on dinner last night too. Ben had 5 chicken nuggets, and he wanted more after that. Crazy growing boy. :) I'm really getting used to having Janet around. She picked up Ben from school, vacuumed, made dinner, did dishes, cleaned up the house... She's the best!

The rest of the week holds more exercising and walking to get stronger and two more dialysis treatments. I'm going back to work tomorrow because I am just about out of leave. eek!