Lumpy Rugs
It’s been a few weeks since Sarah’s big surgery and by all accounts, things went pretty well. The doctor took about 3 lbs. of water weight out of her left arm, which was basically excess drainage that had no where to go. As for the kidney transplant that almost was…well, we haven’t really talked about that. And the truth is I’m not sure if we ever will.
We talk about a lot in my family, but when it comes to some of the most important things, they often times just get swept under the rug. It reminds me of an episode of “Modern Family,” where Mitchell talks about how the Pritchett-Dunphy family sweeps so much under the rug that at some point the rug gets so lumpy they trip over it. My family has that problem.
Maybe a little spring cleaning is in order?
In some other way more exciting news, my brother passed his latest round of tests to become my sister’s living donor. You may remember that a series of fluke tests knocked him out of the running last year, which left us all a little shook up. Well, after Sarah made the decision to transfer to another transplant center, they required that a whole new set of tests be done on both her and her potential donor. We weren’t expecting much, but we were hopeful that the news would be a heckuva lot better this time around. And it was!
Now that Ian’s been cleared to donate, the next (more scary part) begins where Sarah starts the process of Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), which is one of the only ways she can receive my brother’s kidney given they are not the same blood type. There are a lot of risks, and we’re not sure if it’s even going to work, but we’ve got to try it. We’ve made it this far.
