Boy it seems like only a few days since I last wrote a post for this site, but when I looked, it has been almost a month! I guess there is some catching up to do.
November went really fast. I mean really fast. So fast that you could miss it if you blink too long. Amelia had an orthodontist appointment and a dentist appointment on the same day!
She has been doing ok over the last month. Her appetite is better and she seems to feel better, even if it is only a little bit. We have been running around some, trying to get things ready for Christmas crafts and she has been riding along. We even took a mini road trip out to the west desert after Thanksgiving and she had a good time on the ride.
For Thanksgiving, she was a great help again. She made the candied yams, helped with the rolls and snack table, and made crustless pumpkin pie. They all turned out great. She even tried her hand at making fudge. It turned into a fudge flavored syrup, but it tasted right! She wants to practice that again.
She did have a clinic visit this past week, that was basically uneventful, but they did say some of her blood levels were looking better so that helps. We just have to hang on and wait for that kidney to come, hopefully before she needs dialysis. Last clinic they started talking about dialysis, but they didn’t say anything this time about it.
For now, we are in a holding pattern, just hoping that Amelia can keep feeling as good as she can. We are looking forward to Christmas though, we are trying to make it as normal as we can staying at home. Good thing a bunch of our Christmas activities are home related anyway.
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas Holiday, and a Happy New Year. More to come as we know it.
Still coming to you live 167 days into the new Kidney Journey in the Year of the Covid…
-Justin
