Bouncing Back

Today was a pretty mellow day. We had to have blood drawn at before transplant clinic and before we give him his Prograf. We didn't get to the day hospital to have blood drawn until a little after nine o'clock and for some reason they didn't have the orders for the blood draw so we waited around an hour to finally have the blood drawn. It's usually best to get to clinic early before many of the other patients arrive so that you can be seen and get out quickly. Otherwise, if you get there when it's busy, you have a long wait ahead of you. So I thought that by the time we got there it would be busy but I noticed how strangely quiet it was and when I mentioned it to the nurse she put her finger to her lips and said, "Shhhh." She didn't want me to jinx it for them. In the end, we just visited with the transplant nurse, Amy - Dr Sarwal didn't even want/need to see him. Which I'm taking as a good sign.

After our speedier than normal clinic appointment we had an appointment for another ultrasound of Joaquin's kidney. That went well also - not any better, not any worse. The little "blockage" was still there but just by looking at it you can tell that it's not a solid mass. And it floats around a little. Whatever it is it's not harming anything because he's still urinating plenty and his creatinine has gone down more. So they will probably just keep an eye on it. Supposedly the normally occurring enzymes in urine break down particles so they think it will just go away eventually.

As promised, I waned to share some of Joaquin's words with you all. Here are some in no particular order or preference: bye, book, cheese, juice, keys, dada, mama, baby, mine, pank, walk, water, banana, box, and today he was trying out the word "spider" which sounds more like "pi-der"

He also enjoying his freedom from his catheter and also enjoying many different foods. He's acting like he feels really good. He's very active and talkative. I'm sometimes amazed that he bounced back so fast, but at the same time, it's what I expected of him.