Alas, last night I had a Liberty Cycler alarm at the start of Drain Cycle Three. I got out of bed, reset the alarm, and immediately went back to bed and to sleep. The next time I awoke it was to the Cycler draining on the last drain of the evening, drain four. So while I did experience an alarm, I was able to reset it and jump back in bed. Heretofore I had to stay erect to assuage the inner sole of the Cycler. I take this as still a win for the revised way I am inserting the Cassette into the Cycler and will continue to do so and report back.
This past Wednesday I had two interfaces with Fresenius. The first was a lab visit for my monthly labs (I’ll relate to this in Monday’s blog), handout, and nurse Cindy checking my heart, feet, and ankles, running through a checklist of medical and other questions, and picking up fungible peritoneal dialysis supplies. All of this always precedes my monthly dialysis team meeting which is scheduled for 0830 Friday, 8/11/2023.
You can imagine that at 84 my relatives are also getting up there. With recognition that life is finite at best, this morning my wife Linda and I planned a flying trip to visit relatives in Indiana for the last part of September 2023. This month, August 2022 is when I started on Hemo, and September 2022 is when I started on PD. It is time to break out and get on with life and go on a mini-vacation. We are going to load up our BMW X5 with all the PD supplies we need for eight days and go for it, planning on being gone for six days. Fresenius has facilities in Little Rock, AR where we plan on spending the first and last nights en route, and also in Lafayette, IN our final destination.
In a subsequent blog, I’ll relate what I have learned about traveling while on PD.
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