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back home almost exactly 48 hours after i went in to osu hospital. poked and prodded in every conceivable way, and some inconceivable. do you know how hard it is to lie supine unmoving for six hours? what a pain. anyway, the considered opinion of nephrologists, radiologists, and pathologists is that i’ve suffered damage to my kidney caused by the long-term use of my medications (irony). the damage is partially permanent, but is also partially reversible through changing medications. in the scheme of things, this is not the worst news by any means.

so i’m starting new medications tomorrow, and we’ll see how it goes. thanks all.

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update

Most of you know I had a kidney transplant (if you didn’t, you do now) about 17 years ago. Over the past week I’ve had two blood tests come back with bad results which are very out of the ordinary for me. (Creatinine of 6.1 for any medical types out there). So I’m being admitted today to OSU hospital “for further tests”, as they euphemistically call it. I feel physically well, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything, so I’ll be there until they figure it out and fix it.

My favor from all of you is to think of Monica for me. She has a tough enough job herding those three boys around when I’m up an at ‘em. With the added stress of me being in hospital, she probably could use some kind thoughts and prayers.

Thanks all, ttyl.

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