This is the second time I’m writing this blog. The first time it ended up in the byte bin, it was no fault of mine.
First off, I met with my dialysis nurse, who performed a procedure called a “Power Flush.” She took three large syringes, filled them with fluid from a 2K manual bag, and flushed my catheter line by filling the syringes and then sucking out the fluid. Last night, my time on dropped to 10 hrs, 43 minutes, which is still a little high, but lots better than what it was running.
While setting up the cycler last night, I encountered the fourth System Alarm, which instructs you to contact tech support, which I did. After being on elevator music for 20 minutes, I started the procedure, which I had used the last three times I encountered this, and was well past the step where it bails, just before opening the bag cones, when I received a return call. Bottom line, I’m to receive a replacement Cycler the day after Christmas. I spoke with my dialysis nurse again today, and she told me none of her other patients have reported this problem, so perhaps it is the Cycler and not the cassettes, as tech support led me to believe.
My blood pressure has been running in the low 150s off and on, so she put me on a couple of days of 2.5 6 L to pull out more fluid and also reduce BP. While my microfiltration was over 1000 last night, my BP this morning was 151/64, so we’re not there yet.
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