Sep 06
We are sitting in the waiting room at Mayo Clinic and Pete is reading Cat Fancy. It’s Biopsy Day #2. Biopsy Day #1 was a waste of time and money. The doctor at Florida Hospital did not take enough of a tissue sample and sent it to what I’m now calling a nephropathology farm, so while he said the results he got from Biopsy #1 were enough to determine if the Prograf was toxic to...
A Little Asphalt Dancing Never Hurt Anyone
Dec 22
Peter and I had to take a trip to the wonderful Mayo Clinic last week for his six week check up. The doctor was supposed to have obtained Peter’s biopsy slides, but the hospital that we had the procedure done at hasn’t been cooperative. We were both a little disappointed, because once Dr. Aslam takes a look at the slides, we’ll find out what medication he goes on next. Also...
The Biopsy Test Results are Back
Jun 01We had Pete’s doctor appointment last Thursday, and I took a half day so that I could go. I’m pretty sure that everyone knows about the Best Doctor’s report (a benefit through work, they send his medical history to a leading nephrologist who writes what he thinks Pete should do). Out of that came a diagnosis of IgM-associated mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis and a recommendation...
Biopsy Day is (Almost) Over
May 12
So we’ve had quite the adventure here at Florida hospital. I woke up with a cold, and have been hiding sneezing and blowing my nose here in post-op (and using crazy amounts of hand sanitizer). We started out by going to the wrong building. And now we’re in the midst of waiting five hours for Pete’s kidney to clot so that we can pick up some Chipotle and go home! Everything went...
Biopsy Time
May 11In the morning, Pete will be having a kidney biopsy to check up on how things are going in there. It’s a fairly minor procedure. We have to be at the hospital at 6 am, the procedure starts at 8, he’s in recovery at 9, and we have to hang out there for a few hours so they can make sure that there’s no internal bleeding or anything like that. Even though I’m sure it will be...
Best Doctors Really is the Best
Apr 29After six patient weeks of waiting, we finally got Pete’s Best Doctor report back. It’s a little overwhelming for a few reasons. The doctor who wrote the report and answered all of our questions works at a Harvard teaching hospital. He backed up everything he said by citing 44 references. 44! And even though most of it was in English, the a lot of it was filled with medical terms that...
