11-26-07 lab

My phos level for 11/26 was 6.3 which is up from 5.2 last month. Prat suggested that I take Renagel, but I am not worried about it because that was a couple of days after Thanksgiving andn i was still eating sweet potatoes, broc and cheese, cornbread, ham ... And God only knows what else. We had nachos that week. Another thing about that day, was I had not dialyzed since Saturday. Quiet as it is kept, Friday was a short session because I had an alarm and it WAS black Friday. I thought I was going to go shopping. I also did that tx late (around 11:30pm). On Friday I didn't even do a tx (I didn't have enough small bags of saline). and Saturday I did the tx off schedulealso. I ate like a dog for about a week after Thanksgiving too.


One thing that I have learned though is that I still have to remember that I am should be careful about what I eat because I dont' want too much junk floating around in my blood. But that's about all that I am getting out of that.

I also need to be aware that it is very important that I find ways (which I am working on now), to make getting on the machine easier and not take as long.

AS of this am I called Nxstage to make sure it is ok that for me to prime the machine the night before. They said that I have 24 hrs to prime before I have to use the cartridge. If I can go ahead and set up the night before that will be less time that I will have to spend on the machine the next day. We'll see. But, today I am getting off the machine at 11:30 even though I didn't get on until 920. I got on at 920 because I didn't get home until after 830.
Normally, I am not getting off until 1 or so. So, 1130 is good. I havn't been off at that time since, dare I say in center.