Wow, it's been a few years. I don't know how that much time slips by in the twinking of an eye. You miss one day and it turns into months and years!
It's going to take me a while to catch up.
To start with, on May 22, Melisa received a kidney transplant from a dear friend of hers who was a perfect match. Looking back on the whole thing I can see God's hand every step of the way
On our 50th Anniversary, I received a letter from UofM telling me that I was not a candidate for donating a kidney. I barely had time to process that when Melisa stopped by to tell us that a kidney donor had been found and it was her friend Shari.
The day of the transplant, Melisa was still hoping to have a robotic surgery but the odds didn't look good because there was only one doctor who did those and she had issues of her own. Well, the robotic surgery happened!!
The surgery went well and Melisa did great for about a month and then started having intense back pain. She ended up in the hospital and as hard as it was to see her go through that much pain, it was actually a Godsend. She had to have a CAT scan and they found that the removal of her stent had caused crystals to form in her new kidney. This could have been very bad.
Then she had to deal with the insertion of a new stent and they found she had a UTI and shingles. Ugh
Well, the second stent is out, her back is healing and things seem to be moving in a great direction.
