It is now six weeks since the transplant. I had my check-up today with the usual blood and urine tests. I also had a shoulder x-ray as it is still hurting. It is most likely a pulled muscle, but they thought it best to have a look. I can now pick things up and do the chores, so I have no excuse.
Yesterday Jasmine had her latest surgery. At the weekend there is an emergency surgery list, starting from 8.30 am we were waiting around nervously until 5.30 pm when Ruth took Jasmine down to surgery. Ruth had actually got the bus down at 6.30 am, as she couldn’t sleep and it was too early for the tube on a Sunday morning. Ruth made lots of friends on the night bus at Kings Cross!
The surgeon removed a bit of ureter and widened the path through the muscles. He thinks that it was the muscle restricting the flow of urine out of the kidney, but we won’t know for sure until the latest stent is removed in a few weeks time. He had to reopen Jasmine’s wound again, so hopefully it is third time lucky and it is left in peace to heal up.
Today she looked rather poorly in the morning. She had a couple of vomits overnight, and had been on some morphine, which can make you sick. By the afternoon she had perked up, and was demanding to be pushed up and down the ward on her trundle toy.
I hope the third time is a charm and that she can mend on her own!!!! Thinking and praying that all is quiet for a while! Hugs, Jill Winslow