I need to document this stuff if for no other reason than for me to be able to come back and read it once it's all over with.

Today I finished Day 2 of my transplant testing. As far as I know, I am all finished and just waiting on the stress test from W. Houston. I also need to send them the stool occults. I didn't give them to them because I had liver the day that I was supposed to give them the specimen and they didn't want you to eat any red meat for 3 days before. I'm really going to have to stay on myself about getting this specimen to them. (I"m not good about that kind of stuff espcially if any significant amount of time passes).

Overall the process was pretty painless. Everything went pretty quick. All of my appointments were right on time and didn't last very long. The hospital was very efficent. I was surprised because I never thought of or heard of St. Luke's being a good hospital. I was really surprised at how big it was and it was really nice too. It was really surprising to me because I go over there once a month for lunch. I guess it's just the part that I see that I am not all impressed with.

I'm tired. I'm anemic. I am going to try to play around with some Total or Raisin Bran to see if it can increase my iron levels. I also know that I need to go ahead and step up to the next needle size to start getting some better clearances. (If it ain't one thing it's another with dialysis).

I'm sick today. My arm still hurts, and now I have right flank pain. It hurts when I breathe. From what I gather it's probaly an infection in my kidneys, but I don't have blood in my urine.

I don't want to go to

I think I start using the 16 guage needles today. Another hurdle to cross, but I'm game. Another oppurtunity to get these bhs set right. I taped alcolhol preps to my bhs this am. I am hoping that it will make taking the scabs off easier. The last time, I don't feel like I got enough off and I was quite uncomfortable.

My fistula arm is sore from my fall roller skating this weekend. I am glad that it is my

yesterday I used both my arterial and venous bhs. The arterial is definately set, but the venous aint' far behind. It's starting to get that bh look too. The problem that I was having with the venous is that it was not straight ahead like I thought it was. It was in fact, a little off to the right. I would like to give a shout out to C because I still wouldn't be using it if it weren't for him.

So, anyway the venous is starting to get that "sucked in" look to it too.