After doing two stress tests and more bloodwork in the past month it seems I've been okay'd by the tx center to be back on the active list again. So after all the most recent hoops and loops I've been made to jump through - this is good. My arm seems to be healing well. The surgeon was happy at how it looked at the post-op appt. I attribute this to the post-op care that I received from my friends, Marilyn & Dr. Rick Daly (who is also my PCP).
My nephrologist was like a kid on Christmas when I showed him that I had it done but he also knows that I am still not into anything that remotely has to deal with the big D and so he assures me that he hopes to never have to use my new vascular access.
Sounds good when he says that, but knowing that I am a Stage V - End Stage, Chronic Kidney Failure patient, - it's still a darn big black cloud hovering overhead.
As for what's next, I was to have a endocrinologist appt. today but it was cancelled at the last moment due to the doctor being sick. (Whoa! So i guess that DOES happen!)
And I have an appt with the surgeon on March 22nd to see if this f surgery was a success.
If so, he would give the OK at that time to it being used.
That's it for now from here.
Thanks for checking in.
