I am so glad to hear about his status as Mike was one of the first
listmembers I had contact with.  God Bless.
Definitley VC!.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:22 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Mary says:
> We saw the surgeon for a follow up appointment yesterday and the area
> where the tube comes out of his tummy has finally started to
> heal.  The long incision where they inserted all the tubing healed in
> a few days but where it comes out has taken a longer time.  Looks
> like we will be ready to start our training on November 8 as
> planned.  He is counting down the sessions where he has to sit for 5
> hours, only has 4 more sessions.  After seeing the surgeon yesterday
> we went to the dialysis center that is going to be training us and
> they flushed the catheter and it works very well.  We were told that
> he will be coming off some of the meds he is now taking and that his
> fluid intake will be unlimited. He will have to change doctors for a
> short time until the dialysis center closer to home is up and
> running,  I am not too happy about that but since it is only until
> Spring I suppose I can handle it.  I have just become so dependant on
> Dr Henry to guide us in the right direction and changing doctors in
> midstream to me is not a good thing.
>
> Yrs,
> d
>