Yeehah...

I got discharged today and going well.

I am now in the Medi-Hotel which is basically a place where regional
patients stay when they need to remain close to the hospital. I need to
check into the hospital every day for the next 4 weeks for tests that will
let them adjust my medications. This will see most morning"s occupied
with the afternoons free to myself.

The Medi-Hotel is on the same campus as the hospital however "Hotel"
is drawing a long bow... but it's only 4 weeks and maybe less if they get
me sorted quickly.

Looking forward to getting home at some point, even if it's only for a day.

Traveling well...

Well I'm now officially transplanted. Apart from a shocking reaction to the pain medication, all has gone really well and the new kidney is working already. My poison levels in my blood have dropped to almost normal. I'm feeling really good. It's the first time I've had a clear head in about five years.

I will stay in hospital for a few days yet then they move me over to the respite centre as I have to report back into the hospital at 10.00am every day for the next four weeks.

The world is good !

What's black, over a foot long and throbs ?

My Arm....    ;-)

Now that I have the attention of all the potty minded folks out there, just a short post to let you know that everything is on track.

I will continue with the dialysis today and tomorrow and be admitted for the surgery tomorrow evening.

Wish me luck...

PS: Remember to sign up as a follower..  I'm going for the record of the most followers of the most boring blog. We can do it !!

I'm Popeye the sailor man...

Yep, picture Popeye's forearms and that's what my left arm looks like...  and no, I'm not left handed ;).. 

Seems these ugly vein thingy's they put in your arm can get punctured by the dialysis needle going straight through it instead of along it. Well that happened yesterday and that rip snorting dialysis machine decided that the return path for my immaculately cleaned blood should just be my arm. Needless to say, just before my arm split like a carrot, I sought some attention from the staff...

Not a good day yesterday but today went OK as they were still able to use the arm even though it looks like a Sherrin and will very shortly be black (or for the politically correct - pigmentaly challenged) from the elbow to the end of my fingers - wooohoo !!

I've finally found it...

Just as I was about to abandon my quest,
I have finally found something more boring
than having Watto explain something to me !!

Hours spent hooked up to a dialysis machine
Makes a conversation with the minister for elongated
sentences seem almost bareable.

More of the same tomorrow.

It's just like riding a bike...

Had a stress test today where they take you up to your max heart rate on an exercise bike, inject you with this radio active stuff and then run you through a dirty big scanner..


Imagine me, stripped down to my lycra shorts, wires hanging off me everywhere, I must have looked like Shane Crawford at that stage as I could see the Nurses struggling to contain themselves..  and with the radio active stuff, I'm now very scared of kryptonite !!!

Well that didn't go to plan....

Met with the specialists in Melbourne for the last time today. They told me that I'm a bit too crook to undergo an anesthetic at the moment and have prescribed daily dialysis from Thursday until next Thursday to ensure my body's chemical levels are OK to operate.

A bit of a shock first up but realise that I need to do what I need to do to nail that date of the 10th..

So have finished up a work and getting myself ready to be dialysed for a week...  in Melbourne. I asked why the dialysis couldn't be done in Bendigo and quizzical looks all round suggested they haven't caught up with the fact that Bendigo even has electricity yet, let alone a pretty good hospital or two.