Ten days post surgery.
I feel much better today. No
sharp pains when I’m moving, which is a big improvement. More just a general ache in my insides, and
when I take my pain medication I don’t even feel that. I went for a short walk outside. There was a bazaar happening at a local
church down the road, so I drove over and thought I’d just go and stroll
through it. But two minutes of strolling
left me with a strong feeling that I was not well, and that I needed to be in
bed. Listen to your body, right? So straight back home and into my pajamas for
a long nap and then a quiet day on the couch.
Today my mind was opening up a bit to thinking about the
four people who have new kidneys. For most of the past ten days I just haven’t
had room in my head to think about anyone else very much because I’m just
dealing with my body. I wonder what their recovery is like. They’ve got the same sort of incisions, I
imagine. The inner operation would not
be so invasive, I would think, since they’re not cutting anything out. As far as I know, even if they have a kidney
that’s failed, they don’t remove it, they just add another one.
The difference for them is that they hopefully now have a
kidney that is working, and they are peeing for the first time in a while. And their blood is being cleaned more
efficiently and effectively, so they are going to start feeling better. And they can eat and drink more freely
because their/my kidney is doing its job.
They’re listening to their body and hearing something healthy. Cool!