Oxnard—Getting a kidney transplant has turned into the medical challenge of the week.
THIS week, about 30 minutes after being told my lab results were great, they stopped by to tell me my dry weight is too high.
“Dry weight is a specific measurement of weight excluding liquids, fuel, and cargo, with its exact definition varying by context.”
In other words, we’ve taken everything away from you except water, but sorry, don’t drink water. It’s an old bumper sticker, but “water is life.”
Okay, another challenge accepted, although there have been too many times I’ve woken up with my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth.
The plain truth is that nobody at my dialysis center wants me to come off their machines. When I told the supervisor my transplant was moving forward, he replied indifferently.
To quote Frank Burns from M*A*S*H, I’m going to “rechew my cabbage,” and remind everyone that they promote a culture of being sick.
They promote transplants, like companies that sell tobacco products, give a tiny portion of their trillions of profits worldwide to stop smoking.
If giving up fluids is not enough, all the dry skin that goes along with this is…
