Good news...finally

Well, we finally caught a break today.

After a slow start, with some "gunk" coming through the line, the catheter started
flowing well, and the nurse was able to put in and get out a lot of the fluid for
dialysis.

While waiting for the fluid to work (min. 2 hours) we went through training.

G, being G, got 100% on all the quizzes. So even though yesterday was a slow
start, we made up for it today.

Tomorrow we will take some supplies home, so by Sat. G will be doing the dialysis
at home himself. He has been able to do everything for the dialysis, which entails
a lot of very specific steps to avoid contamination. It is SO important to keep
the catheter from getting infected, and G is taking this very seriously, which
I really appreciate.

The majority of the supplies will be delivered directly to our house, or if we are
traveling for more than a few days, we can get them delivered to wherever we
will be.

So, looks like we finally caught a break.

G will go to the dialysis center 2 times a month so they can run tests to see if
he is getting proper dialysis, and also give him Epogen shots which he will need
for production of hemoglobin.