RE: Re: thanks Carla

[Guest guest]

Thank you Carla,

After reading your post about going in for surgery, it made me feel a little

like a cry baby about my own situation. That is the great thing about this

group here, even when members are faced with very difficult situations

themselves, they are still able to reach out and help others who are faced

with challenges. When reading your post and knowing about your situation,

it brings me back to reality a bit and it reminds me not to wallow in

self-pity.

Thank you for your wonderful words of encouragement. I hope that the

surgery will help you cope with pain management. Please keep us posted when

you can on your situation.

Connie

Re: Update from Connie

Hi Connie,

My thoughts and prayers are with you. I am so sorry you haven't

been feeling good. I will keep you in my prayers. Thank you for the

update and I hope you will feel better soon.

Everything will work out for you. I know in my heart it will all

work out. You take care. Just take one day at a time, that is what

we all have to do.

Thinking and praying for you,

Carla

-- In iga-nephropathy , " Connie Sink " <csink@a...>

wrote:

> Hi everyone!

> Just to give you an update on the latest with me. Just over 2

weeks ago, I

> was out of town at a 3 day conference with work. I was a little

over 3

> hours from home. On the second day, I woke up with what I'll call

a very

> stiff neck and severe headache. (and as much I played if off to

partying

> the night before, I must confess that I didn't have one drink!)

I was

> extremely sick the entire day and the next with nausea, shaking,

and

> headache. (even had some tightness in my chest too) I drove

myself home and

> was down the rest of the weekend. On Monday morning I went to

work, during

> my lunch hour I went into the lab with a 24 hour collection and

had them do

> blood work and then I went back to the office. Within an hour my

Neph

> called me with some shocking news. (I must say for a Monday, the

lab was on

> their toes that morning!) It seems that my serum Creatinine had

gone from

> 3.0 to 5.2 and my potassium was at 6.3. (No wonder I felt like

someone had

> hit me with a huge truck more than once!) My Neph told me to

immediately go

> home and start taking sodium polystyrene sulfonate and that my

potassium had

> to come down by Wednesday or I would be placed in the hospital.

The guys

> here at work that had been un-sympathetic in the morning when I was

> complaining about being sick at the conference and the lost

weekend, were

> now driving me home in the afternoon. It was a pretty sobering

thought. I

> was really trying to come to grips with this latest new, as they

were

> driving me home, I was thinking " if the Neph had not have called

my office,

> I would have not gotten home until 10:00pm tonight because I had a

meeting

> after work. I was really ready to fall apart both physically and

> emotionally.

>

> Well to make a long story short, by that next Wednesday the

numbers started

> to slowly turn around. By the end of last week, my serum

Creatinine was at

> 4.1 and my potassium was finally at 5.1. I have been out of

commission

> every since the conference. I don't know what brought it all on,

I am

> thinking that maybe I had some kind of virus or something. I was

suppose to

> leave for Florida last Friday for a week, but alas here I am in

Ohio

> suffering through this newest development, instead of lounging on

the beach

> and trying to keep my tan for at least another month. My Neph

did not

> want me to leave town. But really the truth of the matter is, I

felt so

> rough that I couldn't have left town. I couldn't even begin to

think about

> packing and getting ready to travel. I have an appointment

tomorrow with a

> cardiologist and I also have more lab work done tomorrow. I am

hoping that

> I didn't loose much ground, but I'm sure I'm not going to get my

3.0 serum

> Creatinine back.

>

> Sorry to all of you that I haven't been on line for the last

month, my

> schedule at work here has just been a killer. I guess now I

really paid the

> price too, this last set back was very scary for me. I have been

in the

> last 2 weeks, trying in my mind to work through the logistics of

dialysis

> and I just didn't know if I would be able to face dialysis yet.

Are you

> ever truly ready?

>

> Pray for me guys, any or all prays or positive thoughts thrown my

way will

> be appreciated. Physically, I am much better, emotionally is yet

to be

> questioned.

>

> I'll keep you posted after my appointments tomorrow.

>

> Connie

> Co-Moderator, USA