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1) "Live and Let Liver" Liver gist says things are great and I'm "the example of recovery
from this disease." We joked around about me being able to die from
something else and he said that would be great unless I get killed by a
pick-up truck while I'm out cycling in the near future. If that
happened, he said he'd stand on my grave shaking his fist saying, "You
wasted all of this!" Sounds pretty morbid but it was really funny at the time.
Part 2) "Kidney Time" Kidney gist agrees about how well I'm doing and said I could
cut my last medication dose in half. If I don't have any issues with
fluid from that after a few weeks, I can discontinue it. The recovery
of my protein loss through my kidneys has slowed down but is still
improving and may continue improving for another two years. Last test,
in March I was improving by more than 6 grams per day and now I'm down
to a little over 4 per day. But, as my phlebotomy buddy and I say, "Slo
motion better than no motion." AAAAND...I see the kidney gist one more
time in 6 months and if things are still doing well, I won't have to
have regular visits with him so I'm not only reducing the number of
medications, I'll be reducing the number of physicians. Love ya, Dr.
Parikh but it's time for me to move on. Really, it's me, not you.
So, great news across the board today but tomorrow is the big one! C'mon plasma cells, don't let me down!
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