1. Today, I was wishing that our book club were meeting again today so that we could further discuss The Botany of Desire. Connections within the book and to other things I've read over the years came back to me today. That we wouldn't be meeting again today, though, was no problem. Debbie and I had a spontaneous discussion of the book and continued our ongoing discussion of the act of reading itself and how we go about reading a book or anything else.
2. As I might have written before, a months long gap of time passed between when I started reading Lonesome Dove, got as far as Part II, and then got distracted by who knows what. I've returned to reading it again, having started over again, and today I made solid progress toward getting back to where I was the first time I dove into this epic. It's all coming back to me: the arrival of Jake Spoon, the Irish guys, the non-stop yakking of Gus, and, pivotally, the emerging plan to drive cattle from southern Texas to Montana.
3. Tacrolimus is one of the immuno-suppressive medicines I take and my lab results show that the level of Tacrolimus in my blood is within range, but it's the lowest it's been for quite a while. I trust that if I need to increase my dosage, I'll hear from Nurse Jenn or someone else on the transplant team. I also know that I have an appointment at the transplant clinic on Monday and that the doctor and I can talk about Tacrolimus then.
In other bloodwork news, the two viruses we always check on are not present in my system.
Things look good to me.
I think all of the results of the labs I had drawn are Monday are in.
My next move is to visit to the clinic on the two-year anniversary of the transplant, have labs drawn at Sacred Heart that check for signs of rejection (labs that can't be drawn at Kootenai), and find out if I need a kidney ultrasound or any other tests run at this key time in my post-transplant life.
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