Give me a break,
So I was in the hospital yet again... seems to be the theme of this year. Last Sunday I was having difficulty breathing again, it got really bad when all I did was walk a few feet to the bathroom and I couldn't breath, I had to scream for Eric who rushed oxygen to me. We probably should have just left for the emergency room right then and there but I wanted to see if it would resolve after being on the oxygen. We went to bed and about an hour later I just didn't feel comfortable about my breathing so we went straight to the emergency room. They took a chest x-ray and low and behold I had accumulated more fluid around my lungs. They put me on oxygen and awaited to be seen. It was now early Monday morning and the doctor on call decided to drain my right side since it had the most fluid. So they did that and got out about 700ml. This of course caused a partial lung collapse, so they had to put in a chest tube... not very fun, especially if you're uber ticklish under your arms. I was bearing down the discomfort of both the pain and tickling sensation. Once they put that in it helped inflate my lung while still draining all the excessive fluid, which was another 1200ml, that's a lot of fluid. They also had me do dialysis five days in a row which also helped, in fact the fluid had decreased by almost half on the left side so they decided not to tap/drain it or put a chest tube in on that side. I'm hoping we find a match and soon because I can't keep doing this and the only real way to get rid of the problem is to have a functioning kidney. Any normal person gets rid of fluid the natural way by urinating. Since my kidney rejected and I started dialysis I have stopped urinating and so getting rid of the fluid in my body is much harder to do. Plus it no longer filters out toxins in my blood, hence the dialysis. It filters my blood and removes fluid. All I need is someone with type O blood, the positive and negative don't matter. I know surgery is a scary thing to think about but look at what I've been dealing with, anyone should be so lucky. Donors are in and out within five days and they'll barely have a scar, if you ask me I would say that they have it pretty easy.