Today ended as an answer to my prayer of yesterday, It was definitely a better day for Angie. She is still very fatigued and she again has slept much of the day, but she has been much less nauseated. The kidney specialist said her kidney function was continuing to improve although she is only functioning at 9% and he thought if she was at 15 percent or above she would probably pull out of the renal failure on her own. Due to her low function, he did schedule her for the first of three dialysis treatments, which she started receiving at 6:00pm tonight and it will last for two hours. Tomorrow's treatment will be 2.5 hours and if needed Friday's will be 3 hours. 


My sweet wife was scheduled to have a catheter installed in a vein in her neck used for attaching the dialysis machine, first thing this morning. In light of this, they had her not eat or drink anything until this procedure was completed. At 4:30pm after voicing my displeasure for her having to wait all day, they took her down for the procedure, and she was finally able to eat and drink something. Turns out the order for the catheter was entered in the computer system, but since the radiology department personnel are on call instead of on site due to the holiday, they didn't see the order. Seems like a hospital doesn't run as smoothly as it could on holidays. 
The good news in all of this is Angie is receiving dialysis now and the magic of that machine should be helping her to feel much better in the next couple of days.

She will be watched over by my beautiful and capable daughter Candice tonight, while I go home and spend some time with my son.

I hope you all had a wonderful celebration of our country's birth, have a good night, and I will update you again tomorrow.