1. The best thing about this electronic wireless instant communication world we live in is that Debbie and I can have the kind of conversations about a wide variety of things on our minds that are unique to our twenty-eight year long relationship.
We talked today.
2. I hopped around town a bit after talking with Debbie. I paid bills. I stocked up on things I need as the host for Sunday's family/Christy's birthday (Jan 9) dinner. I checked on how the Kellogg Elks food pantry looked today and dropped off some things.
3. The dosage of most of my medicines stays stable, but the one medication the doctors adjust most often is Tacrolimus, one of the two immunosuppressants I take. Each time I have labs drawn, a test is done to measure the Tacrolimus level in my blood.
That test goes to a Mayo clinic and so the results come back more slowly than the tests measured at the Kootenai lab.
I got the Tacrolimus results today.
When I was tested in December, Dr. Poudyal lightened my dosage slightly and today I saw that the level of Tacrolimus in my blood came down some.
Enough? Too much?
I'll find out this coming week, but I'm going stick my neck out and predict I will not be assigned a new dosage.
I enjoy playing transplant nephrologist, always trying to predict what the pros will say when they read my test results or when I visit them in person.
(By the way, the trick is to have enough Tacrolimus in my blood that it protects my new kidney against my immune system's natural inclination to reject this foreign presence in my body. But, at the same time, we don't want to over suppress my immune system. It's got to be able to do its job protecting me from infections, illnesses, diseases, etc.)
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