- Seems they have to give me a new chest line for dialysis
- I need heart valve surgery
So problems are getting clarified and solutions are being arranged.
Month: November 2014
dialysis catch up
I have had my dialysis head down recently. Things were not looking so great about a month, almost two months back. More recently, treatments have been smooth. Next week two tests on Tuesday and a third on Thursday should give more complete information.
My tactic to do what I could to help things was to concentrate on dropping some weight and watching my fluid intake like a French Foreign Legionaire crossing the desert. Smaller food portions and as little salty food as possible. As little processed food and cutting out junk food almost completely. So I have dropped about 14 kilograms.
about 18 months ago I was down to a whisper away from my weight during my university days, but let it creep way back up. Now I am back down to within 9 kg of that recent low mark.
I hope the tests scire good news next week.
sketches: Walken and Caine
sketch of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey
did this over a coffee this morning
unlikely pair: sketches Steve McQueen and poet Robert Frost
I drew both this morning during a four hour dialysis treatment
Remembrance Day is coming
Waverly, Ontario
sketch I made this evening, Seamus Heaney
self portrait Nov. 1, 2014
this week marks my sixth anniversary of dialysis for kidney failure (November 6 2014) and it is a wonderful thing to be alive.
technical details: Nikon d3100 dx format dslr with Nikon 35mm f1.8 G lens set to f2, I held the camera out reversed to face me at arms length.
