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Hockey68
Member
Username: Hockey68
Post Number: 29
Registered: 06-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 08:15 am: | 
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I just celebrated my five month heart/kidney tx anniversary yesterday and it was also my first day back to work in seven months! I'm only working a four hour shift three days a week but it's good just to get out of the house an back to some what of a normal life! My tx team also said I can start doing my labs every other week now too! I do have a question for all you fellow tx'ers, do you still do your vitals everyday and if not, how often do you take them? Tx team says I should do them daily but is that really necessary or is once a week enough? Your thoughts please!
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Hostess Meagan
Forum Leader
Username: Newheart14
Post Number: 1497
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 08:48 am: |
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Hi Hockey68,
Congratulations on your five month heart/kidney anniversary, and also being back to work.
As far as doing your vitals, I would do what your transplant center recommends. I definitely do not think once per week is enough at your stage, especially as you are a double organ transplant. Perhaps as time passes they will say it's OK to cut back.
It doesn't hurt to be on the safe side.
All the best to you,
Meagan
Forum Leader
Heart-Liver Transplant - February 14, 2008
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy 1991 and CHF
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all - Dale Carnegie
- Bumps in the road can sometimes be mountains, so I have learned to climb mountains - Meagan
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miocean
Member
Username: Miocean
Post Number: 44
Registered: 07-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 09:10 am: |
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I am 8 months out of kidney transplant and I still take my temperature, weigh myself and take my blood pressure every day and record it. I think it is a good habit that I developed out of necessity. The temperature lets me know the first signs of infection, the weight show increases due to Prograf (plus I have always had trouble with weight gain and am now at a weight I like so monitoring it helps) and I have high blood pressure. The only time I don't do it is when I am away on vacation but I take a thermometer with me in case I start to feel sick.
miocean
Diffuse Scleroderma
Kidney Transplant March 11, 2010
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ |
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