In our quest to return to normal life, last week was a plateau, but this week, we are beginning to climb again. Yesterday, Don had his nephrostomy tubes changed out for fresh ones. Apparently one can live with tubes in one’s body for years, but one has to have them refreshed at intervals lest they [...]

Since we’re on a brief hiatus from operations and procedures, I’m actually doing some authorly things. On February 18 at 3:30, I’ll be doing “An Afternoon of Mystery” at Tempe Public Library, so be sure and come by if you’re on the vicinity. Yesterday a guest blog that I wrote appeared at www.thelittleblogofmurder.com. It’s entitled [...]

You’re a tough case,” the urologist said to my husband Don. Maybe I can start a short story with that sentence some day. Here is what the doc recommended: he wants to try another lithotripsy on the right-side kidney stone, which is the one that broke in half the first time. He said that if [...]

Don went to the cardiologist’s office yesterday to have his ICD (implanted cardiac device – the pacemaker/defibrillator) checked out, and everything looks very good on that front. I called the urologist to make the follow up appointment after his lithotripsy, and it seems they want him to go back to Banner Desert hospital this week [...]

On Friday January 31, I took Don back to the hospital for yet another outpatient procedure – lithotripsy. That is where they blast the kidney stone with sonic waves in an attempt to shatter it so it can pass. Don has two stones, one on each side, blocking his ureters (hence the nephrostomy bags), but [...]