Kristie

A quick update. We were admitted to the hospital yesterday about 11 a.m. and things are going fine. Kristie got fluids yesterday after a psycho woman named Rosemary tried to give her an IV which did NOT work and who continued to say that it did work. She then got another IV from a Mary who was very nice. Yeesh. (Rosemary was the charge nurse in the IV dept...I think Rosemary needs to give that job up to Mary!)

Kristie had her favorite nurse, Kristin, take care of her yesterday so we were happy about that. We hadn't seen her since the transplant six months ago.

The GI doctor scheduled her procedure this morning which occurred at 9:30 a.m. They sedated her and put a small tube with a camera down her throat into her stomach to look around.

The good news is that there is no tumor, ulcer, growth or infection. Yay.

So what's making her nauseous? Everyone is in agreement that its probably her anti-rejection drug, Cellcept. How come now after having been taking it for six months? They don't know. Go figure.

So they started switching her yesterday to a new drug to replace the Cellcept but until the medication levels get to the new magic number of 5, she'll be in the hospital. The nurse said it will probably take another couple of days.

Kristie fought the procedure this morning but is doing well now. She hates to be put to sleep...

On another good note, her creatinine was 3.3 last Monday and then 2.9 Friday and today its 2.1. The closer it gets to 1 is a very good thing!

Pray for sleep tonight. We got 4 hours last night.