What a week!  On Monday Johnson's lung biopsy report came back, and it wasn't great.  Finally the doctors knew what was wrong with my honey.  He has a rare lung infection called pseudomonas, which for those with surpressed immune systems can be fatal.  Fortunately for us, this bacteria was still in phase one (a cultured phase) which meant that Johnson would be able to fight it off with some serious antibiotics.  So Johnson was off for a week from work, and was to get some serious rest.  On Friday, Johnson begged me not to go into work... he looked terrified... he couldn't explain what was wrong with him, but he told me I needed to take him immediately to the emergency room at the hospital.  So off I went, dropping the kids at a caregivers for the day, then we swung on over to the emergency department.

His blood pressure was sky high, 221/120 and his blood sugars were way out of whack at 20.  What was happening?  So the doctors quickly did an ECG to check his heart, as he was having some heart palpitations.  They wanted to make sure that he wasn't having a reaction to the Cipro he was on.  All came back fine, and his sugars returned to normal after 2 injections of insulin, and a few hours of waiting for results.  Apparently Johnson was experiencing a panic attack.  Very real, and very scary.  You see, Friday was the one year anniversary of us undergoing our transplant.  This somehow triggered some serious emotions on Johnson's part, and was thus causing these attacks.  Apparently it feels like your going to die, or you have a huge fear of dying.  The doctors said that this is not uncommon, and that of course he would be experiencing these emotions the anniversary of our transplant.  Man the subconscious plays weird tricks on the mind and body.  So my honey was given some Ativan to take only when he feels an attack comming on. 

Then it was off to collect the girls, and my littlest one Taylor had a sore tummy... I knew she had another bladder infection, as she had be urinating more lately, and she had a little pain. So off to the clinic we all go, and the kids are starving.  We hadn't stopped for any supper yet.  So it was Ketchup and Dill Pickle chips for the girls while waiting for 2 more hours at the clinic.  Yup... it was a bladder infection, so off we all went to the drug store to fill everyone's prescriptions.  We all got home by 7PM.

Thank GOD is all I can say for Grandmas!  My mom came again to the rescue.  She and Opa collected the girls that night around 9PM and kept them both until Sunday night, which gave Johnson and I the much needed stress reliver we needed.

We sat on the couch all day Saturday, and all we did was watch movie after movie.  We napped, and watched more movies.  We hadn't done that in 15 years!  I didn't clean, I didn't cook, we just chilled!

Our best neighbours came by and dropped off dinner for us.  Just made it for us at their house, and dropped it off, so as to not interrupt our pyjama party.  I love them so much!  They did it to congratulate us on our 1 year anniversary of our transplant, and after hearing about how romantic it was for us at the hospital yet again, felt so sorry for us! HA HA

It wasn't exactly the way I had imagined our Anniversary going.  I pictured romance, gifts, chocolate, flowers... ha ha!  Boy am I living in la la land!  My poor honey has a panic attack instead.

He had a few more over the weekend, but was happy I was there to just keep him company and hold his had through them.  So up we were on Sunday morning, and I started to have pain.  YUP I too got a bladder infection, so off to the clinic in pain I go.  2 hours later, I've got my prescription to go fill too!  I mean... could this weekend have gone any worse I ask you?

Well, we were all glad to go to Grandma and Opa's house for a home cooked meal last night, and we collected the girls and ventured home.  We were all glad to get back to our routines today, getting ready, off to school and work.  Back to normal!

I hope you all have a great week, and we are looking forward to meeting a fellow kidney recipient at tomorrow nights Team Diabetes meeting.  Cheers to you all!

Kendra