Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Envisioning Protection for my Kidneys

When you see me going through surgery, please see my kidneys being fully protected. Just as with the angiogram that I had a little over a week ago, bypass surgery is often damaging to the kidneys, as they do not like the way blood flows to them during surgery. (During open-heart surgery, a machine does the heart's work, and it doesn't pump the same way that the heart does.) Any further deterioration of the kidneys would most likely necessitate hemodialysis done in a clinic rather than a continuation of the at-home peritoneal dialysis I am currently doing.

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Southern California, United States
Perhaps my friend Mark summed me up best when he called me "a mystical grammarian." I am quite a mix--otherworldly, ethereal and in touch with "the beyond," yet prone to being very precise and logical, when need be. Romantic in the big-canvas meaning of the word, I see the world as an adventure, as a love poem, as a realm of beauty and wonder.

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