Not when you have to spend it in the hospital and your preliminary prognosis is malignant hypertension .
Webkittyn Update. Now besides the diagnosis, let's couple that with a new room mate who has a broken neck and a tracheotomy where you are forced to listen to her gurgle mucous, smell her shitting in her bed many times a day and having the room over run by nurses who clean the poo. I was there trying to eat a cheeseburger in the room the first day I visited, to the wonderful dining concerto of her horrid gurgling.
I'm in upstate New York and today I sat with her during her dialysis. This was not a fun ordeal. I have another friend who has to go through it also. Now let's talk about what she allegedly actually has.This was described as a condition where in its malignancy it acts like a cancer to certain organs in where it destroys what it chooses too... namely the kidneys. However... there are some upsides. There's a 20% chance she may not need to live with the horrors of dialysis. There's a long road ahead. There's many life changes involved. But I think the worst part for her right now is her having to spend her birthday away from her dad. I'll be there with her mom and some nurses who want to glom on her ice cream cake.
Feel free to leave her birthday wishes here or on her own blog. You can also call her. The number is in a prior post.
Posted by Darkstar at March 18, 2008 11:38 PM | TrackBack