Well this was the week Sean went back to work. I think he did well at the beginning of the week easing into it, especially since on his first day both of his other teammates were sick. He was on his own the first day.
However, by today, Friday, he was wiped out!!! He said many work orders came in yesterday and they had a lot to do and he even drove much of it by himself. I discussed with him the need to move as slow as he needs. His response was "I didn't lift anything." He is used to busting some butt to get those work orders done within a short period. When he was up to par, this was not a problem. Of course now, he jumped right back in not thinking about it and it caught up with him. As a result, there was a bit of leakage/blood on his shirt today from the incision area. I don't see where it came from, but none the less nerve racking.
Tonight he missed Garett's Blue and Gold because he just couldn't wear pants on that incision any longer. (We need to get him pants that fit better. He said the pants today were too big and he had to pull his belt too tight which is why the blood happened.) I am glad he finally agreed to leave. He came for dinner, but left before the awards. Garett didn't earn much so it wasn't a big deal.
The hardest thing for Sean is how much running we do daily after work. He went from seeing us often to hardly ever. He says he doesn't like it much. Some of it is the mid-week grocery trips, car repair trips and others are carting kids to and from their events. Add to that my working at WW and tutoring and we are going, going. So I guess when you go from nothing to this.....it's 0 to 60!
The doctors seem to think things look good with his kidney. It's kind of weird to see the labs weekly having the numbers change. You're up, you're down...it's good, it's bad. His kidney function was at 55 and is now at 45. The doctors don't seem concerned about it, but to us having focused much of our life on this little number for so long, it seems like a big deal to have it go down! We are trying to take one visit at a time and roll with it if they don't worry, we try not to.
They are looking into Sean's headaches. He thinks its a stress sort of headache because of the location. He gave Sean some muscle relaxers to help it work itself out. If they continue, he might have a medication change as Prograf can cause headaches.
The good news this week is that the potassium is finally in a better range. Sean has been watching the foods he eats which I'm sure helped.
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