Nothing that new.

Its been awhile now since my last blog post and since the surgery.  Dave and I are both doing well.  Our schedule has been a little over packed lately, possibly because we are making up for all the things we couldn't do a year ago, due to him being on Dialysis.

 I still get dehydrated faster and keep trying to drink lots of water, but I do forget sometimes.  I also on occasion get a slight pain where my kidney used to be.  I am assuming this is still from scar tissue around my muscles and over use of that area at times.  There is also still hardly any sign I had a surgery, people are amazed at the incision site being my belly button and looking so nicely healed.  I haven't forgotten about before and after pics, I have just been busy as mentioned above.  I am going to try and challenge myself to do it by the end of this week, so if you are interested keep an eye out.

Onto other fun things, Dave and I brought home a puppy, something we definitely did not have time for when he was on dialysis.  She is a Brittany and we have named her Echo.  She has a lot of energy and is keeping us both active which is great for the both of us.

Lastly, last year I ran In the Cupid's Undie Run and am planning on doing so again this year.  The run takes place on Valentine's Day and is a mile run around Baltimore City in my Underwear.  The run raises money for The Children's Tumor Foundation to help end neurofirbomatosis(NF).  NF is a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on various nerves.  This disorder can cause lots of difficulties for people who have it.  Knowing how bad tumors (B-9 or not) can effect the human body and having personally been effected by someone who has had a different type of genetic tumor causing disorder I feel like this is a great cause to support.  This is why I am passionate about raising money this year to help find a cure for NF.  By running this race I committed to help raise money for the cause.  If you are interested in helping me do that you can donate to my page http://my.cupids.org/AmberWoo .  All donations go to The Children's Tumor Foundation.  

My Team from Last years Run.

Last minute stuff....

As I mentioned before Dave had an MRI Monday, this showed that the main big tumor on his kidney is a angiolipoma which is fine, but there are other tumors that they can not make out.  Because of this they are not sure if they will be able to take out and put in a kidney at the same time (the are definitely taking them out because they are big and such).  This would mean he has surgery sometime soon to remove the kidneys, then he heals up a bit for 3 months and we proceed with the transplant at this time.  We are waiting to hear back from the surgeon who is going to remove the kidneys to see if it can all still happen on the 7th.  I believe we all hope it can happen at the same time so Dave does not have to go through 2 separate surgeries and so he can be off of dialysis ASAP!  But I also don't want any increased risk of rejection, and I don't know if removing the kidneys at the same time would increase that risk or not?  Something to think about... But what this means is I still don't know whats going on and we are still playing the waiting game with only 10 days left till possible surgery.  Blah!