Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Sorry so late.....

Ok so Nicole had her two day work up done on June 22nd and 23rd. These day consist of blood work, x-rays, ct scan and visiting with doctors and consultants. The days started at 6:00am both days and ended usually around 3:00pm. From what Nicole said the ct scan was not fun. With the dye that you get injected with made her feel funny and get really hot. She did not like that very well.
After we got home the next morning she receive a phone call from Mayo, because some of the testing was not completed yet, to tell her that the tissue testing that they did would not work in my body. Which means that my body would have a high chance at rejecting her kidney. Nicole was heart broken. She came and told me at work that afternoon and with out good friend Jodi Braun there we all started to cry. I was also heart broken because she had to go through alot of testing. I thought to myself now I have to start all over again when I thought I was at the end.
After sobbing for a while we finally pulled ourselves together and told each other the no matter what had happened we would still be apart of each others lives.
My middle sister Jenny now has her two day work up at the end of August. So I PRAY that this one will be it. I dont know how much more I can take this. If I ahve to wait any longer I may have to look into dialysis. I DO NOT want to go through that. My next nephrology appt is Aug 10th so my guessing is that we will start talking about it because the waiting is getting longer, but you cant always predicted whats going to happen. If I do have to be on dialysis I will deal with whatever comes my way. I have great friends and family that will helpme through it.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Much needed update

Jamie knows she needs to do an update to her last post, so I'll let her do that. I wanted to update that a fundraiser is currently being done in Jamie's honor.

Jamie has some lovely girlfriends that are doing a 'Fight Like a Girl' fundraiser. You can get the order forms from Jamie, Nicole or Jodi Braun if you are in Belmond. If you want a copy electronically, send an email to kimberelym@yahoo.com and I'll email one to you to print out and send in.

The Green Ribbon is symbolic of kidney disease/donors/transplant recipients and Fight Like a Girl has T-shirts (short & long sleeved) and hoodies with Green writing and green boxing gloves.

If purchasing apparel from the fundraiser isn't your thing and you'd rather do a different sort of something, send me an email at kimberelym@yahoo.com and put 'Jamie Moore-Claude Fundraiser' in the Subject line and let me know your thoughts. Many hugs and thank you's to those that have blessed Jamie thus far!!!

We had a fantastic 4th of July together this year and celebrated Jason with friends and family. While it was emotional to see all the pictures and chotcky that Jason was passionate about, it was heartwarming to know what he meant to so many and to remember him with his friends. Thanks to all that came to celebrate with us. It meant a lot to our family.