There's this odd little round spot of scar tissue, almost like the mark on my back where they took that biopsy, where my vertical transplant scar meets my horizontal catheter-removal scar. This one spot gets even drier than my normal skin, and sometimes kind of scaly ( Read more... )

If I knew how to get Greek characters I'd put it in Greek too, not that I remember the Greek alphabet anymore ( Read more... )

My least favourite part about renal failure? Throwing up ( Read more... )

When I first got my transplant I was on at least as many medications as I'd been on while on dialysis--maybe six or seven pills daily. Now I'm down to four or five regulars and a few that I take as I need them. Just now: 50mg Hyzaar, 25mg carvedilol, and 1000mg Cellcept (the big daddy of them all, one of my two anti-rejection drugs). Also a ( Read more... )

Way back when my kidneys first gave out, someone once asked me, "Have you tried cranberry juice?"

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There's kind of a difference between "urinary tract infection" and "complete renal failure." Just for the record.

Anyway I do drink cranberry juice, but I always have, and the less added sugar the better! Since I managed to lose my bottle of ( Read more... )

You know that food pyramid thing? Forget it. You're now a special case ( Read more... )

I'm wearing real pants today ( Read more... )