summer is ending

Summer is drawing to a close - well, technically at least - as school is about to start. And this year it certainly seems as if there has been no summer. There is something about a hospital room or rooms that is universal - no weather or season exists in them. You can see the sun occasionally, but temperatures and fresh air are just in your sensory memory. SO... no summer this year. I hope to make fall a lot more enjoyable.

Bud is better- at least in the lab report sense. No more seizures we think, head injury healing, labs improving. We will take it a day at a time now to try to rebuild his strength and hope that he is able to leave here in the not too distant future - on his own speed and ready to embrace all that is waiting for him.

I can't wait.

Bud diagnosis

I found out that I had the wrong name for what the docs say is the issue for Bud's renal failure. It is not microglobulin - it is Myoglobin. Here is what it says in the textbook: Myoglobin is released from damaged muscle tissue (rhabdomyolysis), which has very high concentrations of myoglobin. The released myoglobin is filtered by the kidneys but is toxic to the renal tubular epithelium and so may cause acute renal failure.<sup>[9]

so now we are in dialysis. please keep bud in your prayers.</sup>

repetition, repetition

SO... back in the hospital yet again - as of Saturday. Seems like the same old thing, but with new faces and a new panorama of thoughts and views. Maybe a changing of the guards is a good thing - a fresh perspective may be just what Bud needs. The food choices haven't changed though - nor has the same old, same old, of hospital routine. BUT there is a slight plus for anyone coming to see him - - - he is in the TOWER this time - much shorter walk from the parking ramp. Bud doesn't reap that benefit, but it is a definite positive for me - and even such a small highlight is still a good thing. But poor old Max....