A look back: Transplant Day 3

So on Saturday, things started getting painful.  My numbers were fantastic.  My creatinine was down to 3.2 which is amazing for day 3!  I was allowed to eat food, so I ordered breakfast and Matthew came over to eat with me.  The food was decent.  Much much better than OU I have to say.

I didn't eat a lot, but after I put food in my stomach it ballooned out to looking 5 months pregnant.  Bloated and uncomfortable, things were pretty miserable.  They keep asking you about poop too.  It's really important.  Everyone wants to know about your poop.  Most of the pills you take are laxatives, stool softeners and suppositories.  There is no privacy in the hospital.  You just have to be OK with that.  I mean, there is a jug of urine attached to a tube attached to your bladder that people move around all the time.

Oh yeah!  Let me tell you about the catheter.  I hate it.  It is great on day 1 when you can't get up, but by day 3 it is agony.  The tube automatically takes pee out of your bladder, which is nice, but then it backs up in the tube and if someone moves it above your bladder the urine glubs back into you!  You can feel the bubbles in your bladder.  It sucks.  It just sucks.  And it gives me the willies.

So we were really uncomfortable on day 3.  But our spirits were high and we were appreciating the time we had together.