Lee and I celebrated her (and J0's) birthday in the halls, passages and sterile environs of Albert Luthuli Hospital. The "work up" to transplant day has begun, but still with some fair distance to go. For me it was just another routine day, except that I had to give two extra tubes of blood. No sweat for a veteran!
Lee on the other hand had a busier time. But first, bear in mind that she is sister to Jo, and sister to Sharon, both of whom fainted when they last gave blood! Leanne turned white before they even took a drop...they handed her so many tubes she had to encircle them with both hands. She survived, fully conscious throughout, but was now left pale through loss of blood.
Perhaps to perk her up from shock, she was then asked to swallow a glass of glucose solution. Not foul you see, but akin to Captain Morgan Spiced Gold mixed in double Fanta Grape, and with two extra sugars. I think she tolerated the glucose...but her bosses are still querying the footmarks on the office walls and ceiling.
Now confidently settling into State Hospital time, she swaggered off for X-rays and ECG's, all of which looked good! An hour after the glucose drink, they took more blood...then more another hour after that. Her poor body did not know how to cope with the contradictions - being drained of most of her blood that day, after being fed a turbo solution!
Anyway, it was a good day spending tax money. Some less exciting times lie in store for us both, Lee's toward the end of the month; mine probably closer to D-Day. Lee will still need a CT scan, GFR nuclear filtration measurement and a renal angiogram (don't ask, I can barely spell them). I can look forward to a gastroscopy...gascor...well, 'swallowing' a camera right down the gullet to the gut; as well as the insertion of a seemingly-larger-than-urethra catheter up my "Tony Miles" and into my bladder. I then have the pleasure of standing naked in front of the nursing staff, weeing for the camera!
Deja vu! (Even my victim looks the same as the previous one!)
My wife, faith-filler and pillar of strength!
Lee-Anne
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