Sometime late last Wednesday I came home from dialysis and saw that Parker was home. He had news that the results from his day long series of tests had come in and he had heard from the person in charge of the living donor side of things. This was interesting timing as I had a checkup scheduled the next day with UCD Med Center.
They had found a very small, almost invisible blip just above one of his kidneys on one of the scans and wanted to do a MRI on it to check it out. They were 99% sure it was nothing and would not even have found it if they hadn't been doing tests for donation.
As long as the MRI turned out ok, everything would move forward very quickly. There would be a 4 hour Pre-Op day on the day after Christmas, which is also my birthday. Parker and I would be talking to doctors, having various tests done, talking to the anesthesiologist, and all kinds of other things. Not exactly what I had originally planned for my birthday, but it would work. The transplant surgery itself would be on January 8th.
Needless to say, I was excited, but extremely nervous. I let dialysis know but I held off from posting about it here or on Facebook in case something came up on the MRI. I started going about the other things that would add stress to the situation, rescheduling holiday dialysis days around the Pre-Op, figuring out how to cancel my classes for Spring semester, etc.
Today, well I guess yesterday now, I was called by the coordinator of the transplant program. He had talked to the doctor I saw last Thursday, presented my case before the jury for the final go-ahead for the surgery. They were concerned about something from the doctor and want to have me see a doctor for a test. There's no timetable for when I could be able to see this doctor so the surgery is being postponed. It's most likely going to be happening in the summer now, given that the test comes out ok.
Not exactly the relaxing first week of Christmas break that I was expecting, and today's news is pretty disappointing. We did find out that Parker is fine though, there was nothing on his MRI.
I guess it's just back to things as normal, or as close to normal as things can be for me right now. At least I'll be able to get through this semester of school I guess.
