KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PLUS 42 DAYS SHAPING UP AS A VERY GOOD ONE.........

Amanda my overnight nurse was in with me almost hourly administering meds, taking vitals, blood sugar counts and giving me insulin, running bladder scans on me each time I voided, weighing me , and assisting me with getting washed up, while she changed my bed. I didn't need to take a Percocet until nearly 5 a.m., almost 30 hours since my previous dose. Then, like Sunday night only one tablet, not two. Her three bladder scans of 60, 39, & 16, are well below the ominous 200 or more. My current day nurse, Krissy, who also cared for me my previous times here, just scanned me at 35, so I am remaining sub 200 for 24 hours now. Dr. Hamawi said I am retaining some urine in my bladder after voiding, which may likely be causing the urinary tract infections. The Transplant Team has scheduled an appointment for me with the Mayo Urology Department later this week. The BIG NEWS of the morning is I am being released from the hospital TODAY and returning to the Trapanotto Estates House and caregiving by Jeremy for the eleven days left before my return to Sacramento with him. Mayo Urology will decide if I need to self catherize; the antibiotic, Amoxilin, I will remain on indefinitely as a preventive to further infections, as well. At my 1 month Summary Appointment last Thursday I weighed 222.2 lbs.; and today, after this second infection and three days in the hospital am down to 213.3 lbs.; a 5 day loss of 8.9 lbs.
I am awaiting Jeremy's arrival from his first night's sleep in the French doored, Master Bedroom, 4 Poster, Bed in my post transplant house. Release from the hospital will be right after lunch.
Please God, this third, three day, stay in Mayo Clinic Hospital Arizona, in two three week, periods of time, since August 25th, will suffice to send me forth beyond the southwestern Sonoran Desert, back to my native roots in the Capital City of the Golden State, on Saturday October 17.........Very Truly Yours in Jesus the Christ, Fr. Troy