How's He Doing?

Well, it's been a while since I updated this. In fact, I kind of forgot about it until my friend Jodi reminded me. Goodness!!

So, life is back to normal in the DeFore household. Tim recovered well, except for the bout of vomit and other end that put him back in the hospital 2 weeks post opt, from transplant surgery, and after being laid up in the house away from people for 6 weeks, was itching to get back to life!

Tim is back at Holy Cross, taking care of the boys in the morning, and participating in everything he possibly can. He is able to help out at night with the boys (he hasn't really been able to since he started dialysis 2 1/2 yrs. before transplant), he's able to be around people (though he still has to be cautious that none of their nastiness gets on him:)), and he is able to go out to eat on a moments notice without having to come home to get his meds!!!

His creatnine (how they measure the effectiveness of kidneys) has never gotten down to normal levels (.8-1.3 for men), but has come down significantly from when he was at KU Med (18 down to 1.6), so things are going well. He has to get his bloodwork checked every week for the first year as that is the time period that most people will go into rejection. In fact, they say that almost EVERYONE will go into rejection during that first year, and so that is something we have to be aware of. He sees the doctor once a month and was released back to his Wichita nephrologist at the beginning of March.

We can only give praise to God. He knew that this was the perfect time for a transplant. The man who donated was actually from Wichita, and he saved at least 3 peoples' lives with his donation. We are blessed.