Ron had his renal gram early this morning. Nice to get it out of the way early...now he has the rest of the day to himself....or something like that....
He woke me up at 7am...he wanted to exercise his legs. He did so good. All I really had to do was support them up for his...he did all the bending pretty much on his own. He is so remarkable.
The renal doctors came by to see him...they were looking at his incision from the kidney transplant and noticed there was a small opening in it. They had to open the incision some to get a better look at it. They say it will need to stay open to heal on it's own. They will still keep it covered with dressings but it should heal fine. Fortunately, he has been on an antibiotic already to keep his sternum from getting infected.
No dialysis today. His cardiac pressures are doing well today and his electrolytes are in normal range...they will give him a break today.
He is still scheduled for surgery tomorrow to repair his sternum but I have not been told of the time just yet.
They also plan to cardioconvert him while in surgery...this is when they shock his heart to bring it back to normal sinus rhythm. Right now he is still in atrial fibrillation. It makes me a bit uncomfortable when they do this...but I trust in the Lord to be there with him. So, with no dialysis today and no surgery today...we hope for a nice restful day.
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