Astagraf Redux

After the last post I got to thinking and sorta felt embarrassed that I was going to bail on this new drug after the rough start.

So flying in the face of what the nurse had told me, I decided that I would give it a go and try to continue taking the Astagraf XL.

Yeah this kind of free thinking has gotten me in trouble before so I was sort of bracing for some fallout from the transplant team but when the nurse called me this morning with the alternative plan and I told her what I had been doing she was actually kinda psyched. 

She was definitely happy that I had stayed the course. 

So the moral of the story is: 

"free thinking rules."

Or maybe "even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes."

So the coming week is full of adventure.

Blood labs this morning.

Dexascan tomorrow morning to get a base line of my bone density to use a reference since the high amounts of steroids tend to wreak havoc with the aforementioned.

And starting yesterday I'm back to taking two major doses of CellCept am/pm exactly at the same time each day for the next four days and then on Thursday, at clinic (6:15 am), they are going to test me for CellCept absorption or some such matter. I just know it is pretty darn early, I can't eat or drink anything for 12 hours prior, and they're going to take three separate blood draws over three hours.

I can't make this stuff up.

Thanks for looking here.