Good to see you typing again Rob. Flying home in a couple hours. Ending my 2017 german campaign. But Friday night head out to Melbourne for a week if long engineering workshop than back to begin vacation until mid Jan. People function pretty well on a single kidney for many years. Type I DM does throw a wrinkle in there, but the progress of producing replacement human kidneys in pigs is getting close trials. You’re not Muslim are you? Lol
Rob, I still have a kidney and a half. Pain lasted for about 6 weeks or so but no infections. Thank god my surgeon did it laparoscopically as opposed to just cutting which cut down a little bit on the pain time. I was in bad enough pain I was on something called hydromorphone which helped and I took for a week or so till I stopped. I hate pain medicine but this time i had no choice.
I had this done lathroscopically, via the "Da Vinci" robotic; and yeah was prescribed the same. I really dislike this shit Hydro, gives me a migraine. Makes me wonder if the migraine(s) are supposed to sidetrack my mind from the kidney, lmao.... what really sux besides the internal pain, is knowing I've got to go back under the knife another 1 or 2 times, before all this is over, and yep, I will be ready by ST to Pitch for the Yanx ..... hell if Satchell Paige could do it, why not....??? roflol.... thanks for the insight
I hope your flight went well Tom; I don't know anyone whose logged as many flying hours as you. Good to see you coming back to the Motherland. Have you been to Melbourne before? I've known many who've spent years in Melbourne on the F5/T-38 programs. They always said they wanted to go back if not retire there,...... mostly single guys who would say: 10 girls for every 1 guy.... and nope, not a Muslim raghead camel jockey, I prefer Buffalo over Camels. On swine kidney's: I had a buddy who had a pig valve in his heart, and it blew my mind that it degenerated within 3 yrs. I hope the Pig Kidney transplants are more successful long term. Hell, from what I'm hearing it's pretty tough to find a Kidney match, from a human donor.... Yet, it will be another month or two before City of Hope knows wtf to do with the LH kidney, scares the shit out of me to be quit honest.... I've controlled my blood sugar t/last few years with diet and a disciplined excercise regimen, but find myself at this point back on insulin, .... I've despised the necessary evil that is insulin, and have known to many diabetics who never make it this long; due to 'sludged arteries' from cholestrol and/or Swine Insulin- NPH 70/30. Thankfully Glargine came along.... DM T-1 is a scourge imo, as nasty as cancer itself....
I don't either; they come to me..... Ya'd never believe how fearful and/or superstisous most Cajuns in Luzianna are. Fearful of Black Magic; and I've never understood why, as I've never seen any legit bm. It's gotta' be superstition at its worst...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/scienc...eras-spark-hopes-transplantable-organs-debate https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney
