A fine evening

I'm just reporting that there is nothing to report.  But somehow you know that will take a few paragraphs to say it my way.

Yvonne is doing fine and those of you also on Facebook saw a few photos from the day. Cooking and getting "treated" by one of the cats.  It was a nice quiet night at home and it was just what we needed. I reminded Yvonne that in the hospital she was urged to get up and walk so now that she's home she probably should not just sit in the recliner and watch TV.  I further suggested she could do some cooking.  Well it worked!  LOL

I did all the bending to get the pots & pans out and put stuff in the oven but she's pretty capable when it comes to seasoning the chicken (as long as she didn't touch the raw chicken) or cutting up some veggies. Not much of a strain.

Speaking of straining.... we now have a little bit of a theory about the bleeding yesterday that sent us to the ER.  Yvonne noted that the hospital bed has a button to get her in a sitting position and then she swings her legs off the bed and she stands up.  But at home she uses abdominal muscles to get up and since that's where she was sliced open the strain probably caused some small blood vessels to pop.  We discussed this possibility at the clinic and it was agreed that additional motion of some sort probably caused it.  There was no concern.

Going back to add some detail
A few days ago in this blog I made a bit of a joke about Yvonne getting stuck in traffic and she might have to pee.  Well that humor would have been lost on you if you weren't aware that once the kidney failed Yvonne NEVER had to be concerned about that.  She produced no urine for the past 2 years.  It was perhaps the only good thing about kidney failure...

So since no fluid ever came out Yvonne drastically limited the amount that went in.  She might typically drink 2 or 3 ounces at a meal and tried to limit the total volume in a day to something around 8-10 ounces of fluid.  For this reason her favorite "drink" was ice cubes.  Just ice cubes.  Sometimes when we'd be out,  I'd get a soda on ice and drink the soda and give Yvonne the ice.  Of course ice melts and becomes water but you consume it at a much slower rate so it is more satisfying than a shot of water.

With that background you can now understand how exciting it is to drink again!  In fact the goal is 2 to 2.5 liters a day.  This is quite a change from before!!  And getting up and going to the bathroom to release it is also a change.... but that's what this whole surgery was about.