Dan's Kidney: July 2007

Back in the Saddle

Well, I'm back in the saddle again doing some more activities and wonder of wonders we went to Omaha to visit friends who flew in from Vegas. What an experience....going to Omaha for fun, not medical procedures. Oh yes, did I mention that I felt so good that we took the Corvette! The Vette has only 3 inches of ground clearance, so I felt like a pretzel by the time we got home, but what a fun drive.

I had to be back on Fri. for dialysis so we could only stay one night......but that is better than nothing.
We will probably try to go to Julesburg for the Lanckriet family reunion in a couple of weeks.

Sandy's Gone

Dear Chris—

You are here to take my place while I am visiting my sisters in Rochester, New York. This is a partial list of what needs to be done:

#1 Walk Sadie every day on the Hike Bike trail at 6:45am. This way she will see all her little dog friends. Watch out for the nasty Pekinese.

#2 When you are done walking Sadie…feed her, give her her medicine, pet her, and tell her she is a good dog.

#3 Keep track of how much phosphorus your father eats. Too much phosphorus and his back itches and you will need to scratch his back. Ditto on the potassium.

#4 Water the flowers and the tomato plants on the patio every day. Pick the tomatoes, but don’t let your father eat too many. (See #3.)

#5 Call Sharon. We talk every day. Hot topics with us are the President, Cheney, Republicans in general, the war in Iraq, Nebraska football,….you can probably talk about the weather.

Well that’s the top five. There is more that I will share with you verbally. I don’t recommend taking the Corvette when you go out at night…your father will notice. Also eating at McDonalds every day is not a part of the renal/diabetic diet.

Call Jim in if you need reinforcements. Call Dave if Jim can’t make it. Call in the coffee group, the class of ’60, the KJHS faculty if necessary….and if none of that works then call me.

Love—

Mom

Fourth of July Fun

Sorry we haven't posted for so long....it took us a while to recover from the Fourth of July.

Dave, Annie, Josh, Kate, and Abby came to Kearney for the Fourth of July. They joined up with Jim, Bridget, Ryan, and Alex plus Chris and Sara...plus a couple of dogs...and fun was had by all. We went swimming, played in the park, had water gun fights, played on the slip n' slide, did chalk drawings, went to the Big Apple fun center, plus hauled out the legoes, Lincoln Logs, and dolls....you get the point.

Poppa Dan was a trouper...even though he had just had surgery he attended a lot of the activities and even won the ladder ball tournament (unique game) at Jim and Bridget's barbeque. He beat out 19 people...including the young athletic types.

Dialysis is going well. We are doing some pre-transplant testing because you have to qualify every year (thank goodness they are letting us do this in Kearney.) His 17 staples will probably come out Thursday which will be nice.

So all is quiet now that everyone has gone home....and all is well.