Month: October 2018 (Page 3 of 4)

Sunday the 21/10/2018. The Catholic holy day, of rest for some souls. No Sidmachine needed today. My long 2 day break. Yahoo. Yesterdays Sid went amicable for me and my Lifesaving Sid machine. I ate my forbidden Tayto crisps under wrap, I hide them under the covers. Haha the nurses are like tracker dogs they can smell the flavours without any bother. I am sure I must surely have shares in Tayto, they are my favorite. No other crisp can match my Tayto. As for diet Coca cola, well enough said incase the renal dietitian might be having a peak preview at Liz’s blog. The Sun is shining, this morning was on the windy side. Not that I seen much of it. I was under the duvet in the land of nod. Having harmonious dreams. I did my Affirmations . 1, Today I welcome and nurture the new in my life, I gave gratitude for all that I have already, all that I have achieved in the last few months. My riches in abundance. How well my book is selling All my family and very dear friends. I have much to be grateful for. I love writing this Blog it uplifts my soul. I hope just one person might read it. I wish you all a memorable magical day. Namaste dear ones.

Well, this morning I found it hard enough to throw the covers off me and venture my two feet on to the floor. I thought I had turned off the alarm. That word always seems to make a fool of me. Twice it made that alarming sound As if once wasn’t enough. Trust me for not putting my glasses on and turning the alarm off properly. I hummed and hawed, It wasn’t until I said my morning prayers, that my mind was fit and ready to function properly. Some dark morning I feel a bit despairing, thinking when is my gift of new life, meaning my Kidney transplant ever going to come. When will the telephone ring and the administrator in Beaumont hospital, Dublin ever going to tell me to come up ASAP. I really need to be counting my blessings. I do know this, as there are people that dont even get on the transplant list. Once I am up and focused on my day ahead all seems to tick along nicely Like the beats of my heart The motivation sets off the determination button inside my mind. All it takes is one step at a time and change the negative thought to a positive one. The morning will be great. My day will be a success and 9 times out of 10 this is the case. Life is like an oil painting. It doesn’t need to be any shape or form, just beautiful uplifting colours. We can paint whatever we like in our mind look at the coloured canvas and imagine we see all our goals, this is called a vision. We are the only ones that can see our reality on the canvas No one else can, they will only see their own. So remember focus only on what is right for us Not everyone will have our visions. If they do, not to worry there is plenty to go around. The Law of attraction can manifest, whatever we require for our highest good, we need to be patient, divine timing. We need to have faith and hope. Where there is a will, there’s always a way. This is Lizzy bits motto for the 21/10.2018

To my dear friends family and acquaintances that have their good working kidneys, sometimes its taken for granted. “Oh wait Liz I need a pee”. What a nuisance having to get up 2 or 3 times in the night they might say cursing the job of peeing. I might stand their and nod my head, agreeing with them. While in my own mind I’m thinking get some cop on here my darling.. Theres me that would be delighted to be able to have my wee and not to be on a fluid restriction of 1 litre a day. To be on a special restrictive diet of all the things I love. Anything that would be healthy for an ordinary person is just not on my menu. I love Ice cream milky produce Chips peas beans peanuts oranges bananas seafood, on and on the list goes. High salt protein potassium are all no nos. I need 2 Calcium acetate tablets to bind my phosphates in my body. Everytime I eat. If I forget these tablets I itch and my eyes become red and sore. All food contains phosphates This also causes an itch I do be like a manic monkey on a Monday, due to my extra day off. The toxins have built up and this makes me terrible itchy. The hotter I get in bed, the worse I need to itch. Manic Mondays would be a thing of the past for the feisty renal warrior. I could drink a full pot of tea. I could go for a coffee with friends. Leave them sitting waiting as I say Oh just a minute I need to pass my wee. That’s my hope for the future. My nightly prayer. Dear God please hear my prayers. <3

A day off today, from the 3 day week kidney cleansing treatment session. I love having the day off. I have time to be myself, not just a number on a hospital consultants file that needs the Kidney machine to do the work of my 2 real kidneys. This is my life-saving kidney dialysis session, just to get me from one week to the next. Without my machine and 4 hour treatment I would not survive more than a week. The toxins and fluid would make my other organs shut down and eventually I would drown in the build up of fluid in my lungs. All would cease up. Today is another day nearer to my gift of Life. Sadly someone has to die for me to get the correct match. My family have all their bloods checked years ago. There was nobody suitable. When a person is intensive care and they need to have their ventilator turned off. If this person has given their permission and their family agree Then the kidneys and other organs may be used in Transplantation for recipients, waiting for this awesome gift of Life.God bless all Donors and their families. I am waiting on Kidney number 4 . I live in hope every day of that phone call to say they have a kidney for me 🙂 <3

18/10/2018. The morning started of satisfactory, that was after I had a pep talk with my inner child. I was getting up and young Thursday’s child was all on for a much needed rest. Ah now Elizabeth. Up you get and no more of your old nonsense. The alarm is well gone off. Bingo we synchronised together and up like the Lark. The taxi pulled up at the kerb sharp on 7am. Still pitch dark. Roll on the clock change. That hour will make it Brighter in the mornings. Darker in the evening time. Off I headed. Shouting my goodbyes to Barney my partner and Alfie boy, the hound from the Waterford pound.There was only the driver and I in the car going this morning. My partner in crime for the dialysis unit was still been kept upstairs for some procedure or other. The morning passed pleasantly, No complaints about Sid the formidable lifesaving heap of machinery. and it was soon time to meet up with the Tea room tattlers for the weekly catch up and the gossip. As we sip our tea and munch our toast or daily Sandwich of the day. Today one of my nurses had her baby boy What great excitement. This baby was a gift from god Her age was getting on. We were all delighted for our Angel nurse, After I got home this evening I had to go to the nurse for my Flu Jab and get a form signed by my GP. The injection didn’t hurt, that pleased me. Well done to Trichy my nurse in the health centre.Barney had his Flu Jab and seen his Dr too. We were all finished. Time for Marks Fish and Chips from main street Kilmacthomas. If you ever get to visit Kilmacthomas Co Waterford, please be sure to give Mark Regan a shout. Best fish and chips around. On the whole it was a great day. I got my Blog sorted, as you can see from my up dates. Earlier I was on about the animals I have and had before We got our little Alfie boy after Boomerang Benny had to brought to the vet and put to sleep. Our Ben was just coming up on 16 years young He had heart failure and his kidneys packed up also. The shine on his beautiful black fur. His little legs never grew However his body was long and his tail was never cut. pure black with a blob of white on the top. So we could always spot him in the long grass. He was nicknamed Boomerang, because he always came back with the ball stick or anytime he was called. Benny’s up in Sirrus now That’s Doggy pet heaven to all us that grieve our doggies.We were both devastated losing our old Maestro he was a border collie cross terrier. A grand loyal dog. Barney was unconsolable when I came back from the Vet without our beloved best ever friend. I am almost in tears as I write about my old faithful.