Thur. May 30, 2007 6:56am

Good Morning Dialyisis Lover!

Doing okay. Had a little trouble with dialyis Tues. They forgot to add the heparin so all my tubing clotted and had to start over after an hour.

Pain in hip is still there. Have appt. at eye dr. to see how surgery is doing.
Also have an appt. with my doctor and hopefully will see reults of culture and mri. We'll see.

I'm leaning towardw a pity party. You're all invited to urge me on!

Pray for Dwayne, Jim P. ' s dad and Bill C. I've been looking for the right kind of pants for Bill but haven't found the right ones yet.

Thanks for your prayers and encouragement. They mean a lot to me.

Dan

Will I get a gold star?

Had an adventurous week and a half. Have a lot of interesting and good things to tell.

It was great to be out of the hospital Sunday and to be able to go to the church picnic yesterday. Boy, do we have a great group of people. Thank you Lord for that blessing!

I'm still having problems but hope to get them resolved eventually. One thing is that I've been endowed with a cane. So I really look the part now! Cane, suspenders, dark sunglasses for my cataract surgeries. I'm movin and a cruisin!

I'm kind of tired after dialysis so I'll share some other things maybe later or tomorrow.

So, what's the gold star about? Well, when I was about 8 years old my parents gave me a choice between learning to tap dance or play the accordion. I took the latter. Every week after accordion lessons, if I did a good job the teacher would give me a red star (booh), a silver start (not bad) or a gold start (oh yah). Well, today I got my results of my blood tests that shows how I've been behaving.

My previous results are posted towards the bottom of the screen on the right side. But here' this week's results.

Albumin - 3.7 (booh) needs to be 4.0 and above. Need more steaks

Calcium 8.9 (8.4-9.4) normal

Phosphorus 4.2 (3.5 to 5.5) normal..... It has been running 8.1 so that is a breakthrough

Potassium 4.6 (3.5 to 5.5) is normal

KT/V UKM delivered .5 (1.4 or higher) booh.... that's from not having complete dialysis

HGH A1C is 5.79 Normal range. A1C is my sugar glucose for the last 3 months. I have been a good boy in other words.

Thanks for your prayers. Now I just need to start eating more steaks!

Love you all. And Please remember Dwayne, Bill C., Jim P.'s dad

Lookikng for a good zombie?

I'm still in the hostpitao. Sometimes I'm a blithering idiot. R I ight nowI an think omewhat. can'tdo tooo good I'll ign offd

Oww!

Man do I hurt!

Got home yesterday from the hospital, and now my left leg and hip is killing me. The girls think I must have hurt myself. Not that I know of. I just got out! So I'm not looking to going back in.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to make an appointment to get my catheter out. So if it's still hurting, I'll make an appt. with my doctor. Oh Joy!

Speaking of Joy, if you have nothing else to do read this

Remember our friends Caroly and Dwayne and Jim's dad.

Stay tuned for more adventures!

I'm Out!

It's true, the doctors discharged me today.

It's great to be out.

I'd like to say I'm doing good, but that would be lying. Better than Friday though.

It seems I'll be getting my 14th (yes 14th!) catheter. My nephrologist said that was a record. Well, if you're going to do something you might as well excel in it!

Monday or Wednesday they'll take out the old catheter and put in the new. The doctor said it will continue to be a problem because the catheter cuts the blood flow in my body and the surgery in my arm kind of added to the problem.

I had some good nurses and aids and at times had some fun kidding around with them.

Don't ask me about the food!

One thing as I suspected, my dependency on insulin for my diabetes is almost nil. Once things get settled down, I'll need to get it rechecked. I haven't had any insulin at home for probably at least 2 months.

Thank you for your prayers and encouragement. I needed it, believe me.

Let's keep praying for the Osborne's and also I see Jim P.'s dad needs our prayers.

Not sure if I'll be able to come to church tomorrow but I'll try if I'm able.

Love you all,

Dan

Hey, I was looking for something to do...

I can't believe it. After going on almost 4 weeks of succesful dialysis, I'm back in the hospital again. First they said I might have pneumonia, but now they think I have an infection in my catheter! All I know is I've been sick. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

They scheduled me for dialysis today at 11 am.

So it looks like I'll be here a few days at least.

It's okay though. I know the Lord will take care of me.

And speaking of being cared for...

My daughter Joy informed me that I wss put on the "geriatric" ward! She's such a brat! They told me I was going onto the pneumonia floor. Joy said, well dad, mostly old people get pneumonia! The only comfort I have is that time will fly for her to.... she's right behind me.

Her and Sher take such good care of me that I have to let her get in a dig every once in a while.

I ask that you continue to pray for Carolyn and her husband Dwayne. And if you think of it for my attitude that I would be a good witness.

Stay tuned! Thanks for your prayers

Tues. May 15 - 7:05 am

After 3 succesful weeks of dialysis, it's getting harder to remember the bad days of dialysis (about 4 months worth!). I'm thankful to you who prayed for me (and still do) and to those who encouraged me. I thank the Lord for sending you to me.

This week my mind is on Dwayne O. and Carolyn. If anyone need prayers it's them. They are going through real difficult times and my heart goes out to them. I know God will give her the grace to get through this. She mentioned a request for prayer to me Sun. and I'd like to ask you to pray for God to answer it if it's His will. What is the request? For now, let's just know that she and God knows the request.

We have a wonderful God whose grace is sufficient at all times in all ways.

Have a great day. Be a testimony of God's goodness today@