1. I cruised out to Smelterville today to the clinic for an appointment with Dr. Bieber, the Kootenai Health kidney doctor I work with.
My blood work has been looking, in his words, pretty good. Stable. Almost all my numbers are in range.
One nagging (and new) problem has persisted, though.
Higher than normal levels of protein have been showing up in my urine.
The pros at Sacred Heart and Dr. Bieber have been keeping an eye on this problem for a few months and Dr. Bieber changed my medication back in April to try to lower the protein level.
The protein problem persists.
Dr. Bieber decided he'd like to make a stronger effort to try to figure out what's going on and so I will be taking a 24 hour urine sample to my next blood draw (on June 23rd), those June 23rd labs will include two new tests, and, in consultation and agreement with Dr. Murad at Sacred Heart, Dr. Bieber ordered a biopsy of my new kidney.
I don't know yet when I'll go to CdA for the biopsy.
Dr. Bieber told me I shouldn't be worried about this development.
He wants to examine this protein problem now, not wait, and see what the tests reveal.
So I'm not worrying.
2. Debbie arrived home this afternoon. It was the last day of classes and she reported on the day's difficulties and the more positive things that happened.
Debbie wanted to go elsewhere to wind down and she stopped in at The Beanery, having forgotten that her fellow teachers were meeting there!
It was a fortunate coincidence that she went to The Beanery instead of Radio Brewing and she had a great time socializing with those in attendance. Throughout her time at Pinehurst Elementary, Debbie has enjoyed the people she's worked with and she came home happy that she stumbled into the party she hadn't remembered was happening!
3. Debbie wanted some home cooking again tonight -- she did not want to bring home food from anywhere in town -- and so I got out the wok and fixed a heaping pile of tri tip steak cubes, red onion, yellow pepper, green cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and Thai wheat noodles, a dinner that both of us enjoyed to the max.
Now Debbie has one more day of work in the building and then she'll fly out of Spokane Saturday morning and go visit Adrienne's and Molly's families and return home at a yet to be determined time after the 4th of July.
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