Kevin's Kidney & me

So month five came and passed this week pretty much without a hitch. I had my monthly doctor's visit on Wednesday and everything looks good. Actually, I would typically continue bi-weekly blood draws until month six and continue monthly doctor visits as well. But things looked so good that my doctor put me on the three week blood draw schedule and told me to skip next month's doctor visit and we'll start the bi-monthly visits a bit early. So really good news. Meanwhile I've gained six Lbs since last month, which I fully attribute to the combination of a regular increase of slices of chocolate cream pie and Pepperidge Farm Lexington Cookies and a total lack of exercise. I'm truly disappointed over the exercise thing because when I first started to feel strong following the transplant I wanted to work out, but the doctors wouldn't let me. And by the time I was able to exercise I was back to work and if you've read my previous post in this journal then you ...

I write a couple of blogs. I hate calling them that... it's just a dumb word... blaaaawwwwgggguhh. I prefer to think of them as... journals or... short stories based on true events in my life or... perhaps therapy. Whatever. I currently maintain two of these journals. This one dedicated to the recovery of my kidney transplant and hopefully the goals I achieve post transplant. The other is about myriad topics that I want to talk about with no particular theme in mind. I recently started writing a post for this blog (uhg), but it quickly turned into an entry more appropriate for the other . So I'm back now to attempt to get the Kevin's Kidney version of the same post written here with less emphasis on the theme that was prevalent in that post. Begin: I've had ten years of health issues, not all related to my kidney disease but culminating in my transplant in October. For years I have dreamed of how I'm going to do things differently if and when I get beyond th...