Okay, it's time for the Kidney Post. I spent an hour or so reading other people's blogs about their kidney stories, and I have to realize that I have it pretty good. A look back to the past......
In the spring of 2001 I had a headache. I think that everything starts as a headache. The pastor at our church found out about a *small* brain hemmorage via a headache at Disney World. We had a friend discover her Bells Palsy from a rough headache. My headache was from a simple sinus infection. That's what I was told by my former doctor.
Let me tell you, there is a difference between a sinus infection and strep sinus. Really it was a strep infection in addition to a sinus infection! Somehow strep can travel from organ to organ, which I still do not fully understand.
While taking the medecine perscribed by my former doctor, my face and feet began to swell. I have seen swollen cheeks and feet, but this was worse than a pregnant lady. (no offense ladies) I continued to gain water, and therefore weight. before I 'got sick' as I tend to call it, I weighed in at between 180 and 185 pounds. During the height of my adema I was up to 265 pounds! (That's 80 pounds for those who are not good at math!!)
After getting thoroughly frustrated with my particular situation, I decided to get a second opinion. Given my symptoms and lack of history, I was diagnosed as having nephritis. This diagnosis came from a new doctor found through recommendation of a friend.
I remember very vividly having to pee into a cup for the first time, and the doctor getting excited that he had found what looked like nephritis. He was not excited because it is a chronic disease in a 22 year old, but because he had success in diagnosing something for a very nervous patient. I liked this doctor enough that after returning from a 4 year stint living in Virginia, both Anny and I are going to see him for our General needs.
Doctor Lee was new to the particular practice, so he was not familiar with specialists in the area, so he pulled out ye-olde-book-of-doctors and picked Dr. DK.
I think that's enough for tonight. I'll pick back up with Dr. DK next time I'm in the mood to think about my kidneys.
Hi, i found you on live journal and saw your post about a new journal on here so i decided to check it out. I also read the entry "on image" that was posted back in 2004 but it made me want to find out more about you not shun you. I find tall people just as interesting as people who are 5'5 and i'm not sure if this was the place to refer to the other entry, so sorry about that. I'm sorry to hear about your kidney problems and i hope that everything is going as well as they possibly can. I have a journal on livejournal too (thats how i found you) but i don't think you'd think it was interesting or worth your time you have enough to worry about, i just wanted to say hi. Again i hope all is good with you. I'll be back to see if you respond to this.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually the new owner of this site, so anything older than a couple of months was written by someone else. I have found a few places that link to "me" accidently. I would love to read your blog, and hope that if you visit again you would leave me your url!
ReplyDeleteTake Care, Tiffany.
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ReplyDeletei would love to hear more of your kidney story... my fsgs started exactly the same way (although i was a lot younger when diagnosed). i kept getting sent home and just told my headaches were due to sinus problems and to take OTC medications... ugh.
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