Hi all, it has been awhile since my last post, but I have been extremely busy with PKD business and strategizing for our annual PKD walk for the cure event in the City. However, today, was my monthly visit with my neph, and all my labs were good, accept for my protein, which has been quite a challenge for me. I discuss this with my dietitian, and she look back at my protein levels while I was on hemo for the six months last year, that i had to return to hemo to have an umblical hernia repaired and my albumin, was most of the time in the high 3's and sometime at 4.0, so she came to the conclusion that high flux treatment with hemo, agrees with my protein intake, as I don't lose as much protein, as I do currently on PD. Of course, doing PD everyday and ten hours straight during the night, it seems that even though I am continuing to consume the same amount of protein as I did on hemo, the draining process of the exchange of PD treatment, tends to eliminate most of the protein, that I have consume during the day. I have tried so many protein supplements, ranging from boost drinks, snicker protein bars (yes, snicker, it has the logo on the packaging as well, just like a regular good tasting snickers bar (lol), but I don't practically like the taste of these (so called) high protein snicker bars. I have even tried resource drinks (which taste very good, because they taste like juice, instead of the milky boost drinks), but lately, they have gone up on the price of a case of these drinks, and at the moment, I can't afford to purchase them from the distributor, like I have done in the past, go figure! everyone is hit by this bad economy game, (my distributor company - need I say more). My dietitian, did give me some samples to try, even a high protein jello, let's see what that taste like, I will give it a try tonight for a snack. My hemoglobin is still high, so I am not in need of any EPO (Epogen). So that was good to hear. My session went very quick, as my neph only had a concern for my very low albumin level, other than that, all my other labs were great, especially my phosphorus, which was 3.2, the lowest it has ever been, and of course, my potassium was 3.8, very good. I was so proud of myself, but I do have to work harder at building the protein in my body, let's see when the next monthly has to be drawn, I will keep you posted. So on with last weekend. On Saturday, I was invited to an old friends new home, which was a 2 hour drive away from my home. I had planned to attend sunday church service, but because of the time I left my friends home, which was around 9:00 PM, I didn't get home until around 11 or a little after 11, and I had to setup my cycler for my ten hour cycler treatment, but that morning during my last drain, I kept getting low UF alarms, and this very much delayed my therapy from ending on time as schedule, so I missed the church service, however, my daughter and I did take my husband out for Sunday Brunch, which was suppose to happen after the sunday service. Oh well! We went to brunch, and we didn't remember, how cold it could be by the marina, we practically froze our butts off, but we made the best of it, inside, as it wasn't too cold. The spread was very nice, and of course, we had reservations, so we went ahead of that long endless line, that greeted us at the door. I ate so much, I could have burst, and I did concentrate on putting a lot of protein on my plate, such as scrambled eggs, smoke turkey, beef sausage, hash brown potatoes (no worries about potassium, levels were good on monthly report), shrimp cocktail, steamed snow crabs (all you can eat), a vegetable season rice dish, cold pasta salad, smoked salmon, prime rib (very tender, but had to doctor it with seasoning for flavor), As far as the desserts go, it look so yummy, but I couldn't eat another bite. After I finish my meal, I just gazed out the window, looking at random men kayacking (i hope I spelled that right), cannoes and varies sail boats passing by, and I also checked out the seagulls flying around and all lined up on those big rocks, outside of the restaurant, I was even astonish by how in the world, were those seagulls just landing on the water, and just sitting all unconcerned, like they don't have a care in the world, (and they probably don't, they probably are just sitting and thinking about their next meal), although I observe some of the seagulls with fish in their mouths, so they were fishing for fish and what truly tripped me out, is the way they were holding steady on the water, even when those big waves would come about, and they wouldn't even get knocked down, it was just fascinating to me. I began to think about the recent movie that I saw, called the Birds, and I mentioned it to my husband, and he said yes, all this occur at Bodega Bay, so we were on our way home, and then my husband decided to take a detour and ride to Bodega Bay, which we had to go through petuluma, but when we got there, it was so cold, that we decided not to park and walk around. It was just great to see, the place where this very classic movie was filmed back in 1961, I began to think about how old I was when this movie first debut, I was very young, but years later, I would see this movie from time to time, on cable, and I always enjoyed it, though I observed some very stupid dumb and competent parts to this movie, it didn't seem apparent to me, when I was watching this movie decades ago, I guess I just observe so much more when i would watch those classics, since turning 50 (lol). Well that is my weekend, and I hope all my followers had a wonderful, enjoyable and relaxing weekend, and I hope all my followers that are dads, had an awesome Father's Day. Until my next blog, stay compliant as best as you can. take care and all the best to all my followers.
Glo
