PKD and My Health
My need for a new kidney hasn’t changed. At times I think the world has been awfully kind to me and I’m living easier than I should be by now. I get the impression my doctor is even surprised at my health. But my ailment, Polycystic Kidney Disease, is not always predictable. For me that has been a good thing. My rising creatinine levels have been on a slow ascent. They are still rising. But thankfully very slowly. At least so far.This month my creatinine crested 500 for the first time. I am getting ever closer to dialysis. I don’t feel any pain, and most people are surprised to hear I could be in need of a kidney. As I’ve often said, about the only time I can tell anything is wrong, is when I climb stairs or steep inclines. I really hate deep sand traps now! Especially in this heat!
I really don’t want to go through dialysis. Of course, I don’t want a transplant either, but know that I must. And if dialysis is necessary, I will do it too. I don’t even like to give blood, but I gave a unit a week for 12 straight weeks in the mid-80’s, when I found out my iron levels were too high. So I guess I can go through dialysis if I have to.
I just don’t know if I want to do that here in
I recently got listed on the pkd.org as being a patient with PKD that writes about it in a blog. Some of the blogs of other patients (link from here) are far more uncomfortable as they have endured tougher situations than I. I just hope and pray I don’t get to the state of some of these folks.
posted by A Bryson (formerly) in China @ 6:15 PM
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