Another week

So, I've made it another week. I had my fistula put in last week. So far so good. It still looks ugly, hopefully after seeing the dr. next week, it won't look so bad.

Trying to get everything in order at work, so when its time, it'll be any easy transition for the next person.

Sunday - 17 August 2008

Church was good today. Karen taught in Sunday School and did great, as usual. She talked about the things we need to do to protect ourselves and how we fall into sin a step at a time.

Relief Society Juby taught on Zion.

Wow, my surgery is on Thursday. Today right after Relief Society, Diann Bennett, came up and talked to me. It was the first time in all of this I bordered on tears. I am struggling.

Onward and upward.

Dialysis

So ... a lifetime of worry is finally catching up to me. I meet with the vascular surgeon this week about getting my fistula (shunt) done to prepare me for dialysis at some point in the near future.

I'm coping well, but feel like I could really use a good cry - just not able to yet.

I wonder if I'm one of the only ones who has opted just to do dialysis and not go for a transplant. With mother's complication after her transplant (complication - some complication, she died). Anyway, with the risk of cancer and the fact it runs in the family, I'm not going to chance it.

Really, I'm blessed. I'm nearly 60 and just now dealing with this. I could have been much younger. Mom was.