I haven’t been that hardcore this round as I have been in the past. I’m not checking Amanda’s MyChart for labs first thing in the morning or even standing in our pre-rounds in the hall. I don’t know as much on the kidney side of things as I do on hearts. We aren’t on a…

Sundays must be a sleep-in day for the doctors! It seemed to be like that on the heart floor. Also, for those who dressed in suits and ties or pantsuits, weekends were usually casual! It was 8 am by the time they started rounding. The baby surgeons did come by a little earlier, but they…

Same as the last few days: the baby surgeons, unsupervised by a mother hen, come by first. I don’t think there is a pecking order when mama hen isn’t there, but that doesn’t stop the surgeon mentality of each trying to take the lead. They noticed a bleeder from Amanda’s incision and said they’d come…

Friday morning, the first team to round was surgery. This was pre-rounds and not the full team, just the baby doctors without parental guidance. They were there early, too, around 6 am. I’d already been up reading for a while, so I decided that was my cue to get up and dressed. Amanda seems to…

Thursday morning, everything was looking good. Amanda’s kidneys just needed to wake up a bit more. She wasn’t drinking much; I thought I’d entice her with a StarBs refresher, but she still wasn’t interested. Surgery was the first team to round. They were all pretty young, and I keep thinking, where are the parents? There’s…

After the false starts we’d had with kidney calls early on, even after we knew this kidney was good, we still waited with cautious optimism. We’d heard stories of the surgeon calling everything off even after the patient was on the operating table. They need to put eyes on the kidney to make sure it’s…

With my lack of frequent posts, I usually try to catch y’all up on things, but I’ve got something more important to get to. Although, to summarize since my last post: we miss each other, living apart just gets harder, dialysis sucks, I’m working a lot, and God is good! A lot has happened over…

Well, when I said it rains, it pours about issues with our cars, I was joking, but our apartment flooded a few days before I came up for Amanda’s birthday weekend. Amanda had been gone for a while, and when she returned, she noticed water all over the floor! It was pretty much raining out…

I’ll just pick up where I left off on the last post. My stay with Amanda a couple of weeks ago was all too short, even though it was 6 days. I tried to coordinate and get a few things taken care of while I was off. Working as much as I am back home,…

Hello, everyone! I know it’s been a minute, but remember, no news is good news. Well, I guess if we had news of a kidney, that would be good, but you get the gist! I’m back in Tennessee to be with Amanda for a heart biopsy. So, I have a little time to let yall…