Setting up the Sofa-bed

The surgeons okayed Mark to go home today. They have to take care of a few things before he leaves. He needs to have one last infusion of Anti-thymocyte globulin. Then they finally can remove his dialysis port (perma-cath). They had been using it to give him his anti-rejection solutions.



I'll set up the sofa-bed in the front living room (ya know, the room in your house that nobody uses, but you insist on putting furniture in). I'm gonna drag up the good mattress for him and there he'll sleep. No stairs for Mark for the next week or so.



The kids are jazzed to see him. They weren't allowed to visit him on 9E Rhodes because nearly everyone there is immunocompromised.



The kidney continues to work very well. When he went into the hospital his creatinine was over 8, and as of yesterday morning was down to 3.5.







The x-axis is serum creatinine, the y-axis is %kidney function.