Last week, I had four health-related appointments. This week, I also have four days, Tuesday through Friday. I don’t know how I let myself get this crunched. As patients, we are at the mercy of faceless schedulers.
So here’s what’s coming up for me:
- Tuesday at 1100. About an hour in-home meeting with a VA Caregiver program rep to inspect the readiness of our home for the program
- Wednesday at 1330. Appointment with my heart doctor in Granbury, a routine checkup.
- Thursday at 1130. Meeting in Ft Worth with the doctors looking into how to treat, if possible, the numbness in my legs that currently precludes my driving any distance. Last week, I had an MRA and two MRIs to provide input for this meeting.
- Friday at 0920. Monthly meeting with my dialysis team. I assume the main topic will be how my IPN treatment is going, which is going well to this point, with the following exception: My weight, along with my appetite, has tapered off since starting the treatment. My last nine mornings’ weigh-ins are: 143.0,143.0,143.0,143.0,141.0,140.2,141.0,139.8,140.2.
Key Statistics
- Average weight: 141.58 lbs
- Median weight: 141.0 lbs
- Mode weight: 143.0
- Standard deviation: 1.32 lbs
You can easily ascertain from the bar graph above that in the last five days my weight has been falling off. This is with no change in the bags (all 1.5%) I’m using every night. The only change is the use of the 5-liter IPN bags.
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