Tonight's photo is of Rustle. He is our granddaughter Erin's dog. She says that their personalities match...not real fond of being around a lot of people! Rustle was not sure about me being on the same couch with him...note that he is watching me out of the corner of his eye. Well, today followed all the days so far this week (except for Sunday) where Woody had appointments...today all dealt with dialysis. My morning started off with a call from the dialysis center at 6:15 saying that they had a chair open and could Woody come at 7:45. He had said the night before that he would gladly take an earlier time if it was offered to him...happy to get the dialysis over with earlier in the day. The change in time meant that I had to get in touch with our PD dialysis nurse to see if it was okay to come in earlier to attempt to flush Woody's PD catheter. He said that would work. I dropped Woody off at 7:45 and headed back home to get ready to head to Kroger around 9am. I needed to go to the Credit Union first and the inside doesn't open till 9am...and I do not like the drive through. It opens earlier, but I decided that I could manage to go to the Credit Union and Kroger and manage to get home with the groceries before it was time to head back to the dialysis center. I made it and was able to put away at least the cold/frozen items before I needed to leave. He wasn't finished with dialysis as soon as he usually is. He said that he didn't get started as soon as normal. He finally came out and went to the other end of the waiting room and rang the bell to alert the PD dialysis nurse that he was ready to come over to that side. The nurse was armed with several syringes and the solution bag already had heparin in it when we got in the room. Once again the small amount that they wanted to put in went in okay, but it just wouldn't drain out. There is a chance that the solution that remained in Woody might loosen up whatever is causing the catheter not to work as a drain and then he will go back and try again on Tuesday after his hemodialysis treatment. So hopeful that it will work...but definitely looking questionable. The solution that is being left in Woody's abdomen will all be absorbed at a point. Once again we both rested after we got back from our busy morning...I know that I napped for a while...not sure about Woody but think that he probably napped at least a little. Today they gave him an injection of iron and also his other injection that helps with his anemia...hoping that he will have a little more energy! The PD nurse thought that he seemed to have more energy than he had the last couple of times that he saw him. We got a message about the estimate for the cost of supplies for building the ramp. I have attempted to call back to okay the estimate and find out how they want payment for supplies, but at this point we are playing phone tag. If I don't hear back tonight, I will call again tomorrow. This is the greatest group of men from our church...they do this out of the kindness of their hearts...no labor costs...just building materials. If the weather holds out, they hope to get going on it perhaps Tuesday of this next week. Today is the first day in many a day that we haven't had even a drop of rain. It was nice to have the sun shining! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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