UPDATE ON HEALTH
Ok guys. I know i haven't updated as i didn't want to make things a big deal. But I am out of the hospital today, finally. Though there are still some prayer needs that would be appreciated. Here's the short of it.
Wed i have to go in for the day for more treatments. And again on Friday. Not staying the night just day time. The treatments take a few hours. They first give me an antibiotic IV, a steroid IV (to go along with the handful of steroids they put me on) and a benadryl pill (yes give me something that puts me to sleep and jacks me up at the same time). This takes about an hour for the IVs. Then they start me on the main medicine for the rejection issue which takes another 6-8 hours. Depending on how fast they feel they can introduce the medication.
The first day i had it rough as it seemed to lower my blood pressure, and already being on blood pressure meds, it became a bit much. So the next 2 days they skipped one of my blood pressure meds to avoid that, but, ironically, the medicine didn't seem to affect my blood pressure and it stayed up pretty high. Now i have two more days of treatments, so i guess i need to avoid taking the blood pressure meds again? Makes me nervous as my blood pressure was jack up pretty high on that med, so how bad will it get tonight without that treatment medication?
Anyways, next week i am scheduled to go back to the post-transplant clinic for a follow up and to give the treatments a few days to see if they hold steady. If not i'll have to go back for more treatments. If things remain steady then they'll just work on balancing my meds more accurately. I'm currently taking 11 medications now. The steroids are temporary and will taper off once things are secured.
The steroids though, between the pills and the IV make me anxious i've discovered. As some of you know i've battled anxiety in the past, so there's this internal push to keep feeling anxious. I've done pretty well keeping it under control, but any additional prayer to help would be appreciated.
In short the past few days have been way more stressful on me than i'd hoped. I've barely slept in days. Maybe 8-10 hours MAX of dozing (not really sleeping), since i arrived there Saturday AM. Its now Tue at 730 pm. I've been home for hours and all i could do was lightly doze, and keep waking up. And that was only about 2 hours. At the hospital tomorrow they won't leave me time to sleep. Once they start the treatment the first hour and a half they come in ever 20 minutes to check your vitals. Then every 30 minutes after a bit, then every hour. This is on top of any other things you need, they want. Taking meds, testing blood sugar (why??), nosy nurses. Doctors.
So the rest of this week is going to be rough on me. So any extra prayers you can must to help me would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry for drawing this out. I had hoped the three days would be easy and there wouldn't be much to report.
Thanks to those of you who have messaged me privately to check up on me. Sorry if i haven't always been highly responsive. But your inquiries were appreciated. Thanks to anyone who has prayed or will continue praying..
lol jk I know it's me too. The joy of being jacked up on steroids!
