Saturday, September 10: Dr appts results

The result of Kevin's Dr appts yesterday were pretty good. He is off 2 medications so he's down to only three oral meds. His infection Dr took him off one antibiotic, leaving three left, and he is finally off the Metropolol, the blood pressure med. We asked the kidney Dr about that one because it was prescribed by his partner, and he said if Kevin didn't have any blood pressure problems pre-surgery there's no need for him to be on it now. Kevin's blood pressure was actually quite low at the beginning of the appointment and Kevin has been light-headed and weak(er) for a few days. Of course they had our medication list, but it took US to question THEM about his medication and what would be best for him. We learned a long time ago that we are our own best advocates.

Also - Kevin does not need to see the kidney Dr again. His #s are great, not quite normal but getting there and will be there soon.

The surgeon is still trying to figure out where all the fluid is coming from and that was kind of a relief for me. I thought it was entirely possible that they would wait until the fluid stopped draining and call it good. This is so much better so we can be sure that the mysterious area is actually healed so when Kevin's open wound seals up we are assured he won't have any more problems...with that one area.

So Kevin has an easy non-invasive procedure at the hospital Monday morning called a fistulogram where contrast liquid will be squirted up his drainage tube and they will scan to see where it goes. Kind of backwards from what we have done before. Kevin is stoked not have to drink the contrast liquid, and kind of bummed to do another procedure no matter what the reason.

Of course there is the dire possiblity that we could see a huge problem in Kevin's tummy requiring more fixes than we would rather. Or we could see that he is healing on his own and we continue to wait, OR we could see nothing and no questions will be answered. And that has kind of been our experience with a lot of procedures so that's my vote.