8 p.m.

Thanks for checking in!

Irene’s local vascular specialist believes that the dialysis discomfort is primarily due to poor circulation in her arm.  He will consult with her nephrology team in the coming days.  If his observation is validated he is recommending an angiogram http://www.vascularweb.org/vascularhealth/Pages/angiogram.aspx to increase the size of the vein in her arm. 

Irene has a 3.5 hour dialysis session scheduled for tomorrow to make up for lost time on Monday.  Hopefully she can complete the entire session!

On Thursday she is seeing Dr. Charles M. Eichler @ UCSF, the specialist who performed original the FISTULA surgery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemodialysis#AV_fistula, in 2008.

Thanks for caring,
Dave