Our weekend has sped past, packed with ups and downs. Enjoyed all the visits on Saturday - everyone who came had to pitch in with some kind of help (except for my cousins who just popped in and out with a great heart-shaped balloon - perfect)!
The day went so fast, but ended with us enjoying dinner together and finally getting a great night's sleep.
This morning was great, I even cooked breakfast instead of just pouring cereal in a bowl. But when the home health nurse came by, he decided along with the transplant team that Bob should be seen, to have some excess fluid (escaping through stitches) checked out. We grabbed a quick snack in lieu of lunch, and headed to the hospital to be met by one of the transplant cardiologists. Risk of infection is so extreme at this point that the ER is really not a good place for him to be, so they got him in an enclosed room immediately. He got checked out by the cardiologist, ER doc, and kidney transplant surgeon. Fluid and blood samples were tested, vital signs taken and an ultrasound of the kidney was done to make sure no hidden pockets of additional fluid were lurking. By about 8 pm it was decided the excess fluid was harmless, and the body was just doing it's job getting rid of it any way possible.
It was a scramble then to get the discharge papers, new bandages and supplies to deal with the fluids, and race home for the vital 9 pm meds.....the immunosupressants have to be taken every 12 hours, and no one wanted to start the process of ordering everything from the hospital pharmacy. That would have taken hours more. So we arrived home by 9:15. He was very weak after being on a bed for 6 hours so it was a challenge getting him upstairs and inside, but he went right to the dining room table and downed those pills!
So happy to be back home together. Now time for laundry since there was never a spare minute all weekend. Maybe Monday will be calmer?? We still dare to hope!
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