I’m all over that!!! Ken and I love to play Scrabble, and you all know how I feel about a good Margarita. Heck, even a bad margarita is still better than a scratched itch!
AAAAND - ta da…I can have one now, and yes, with extra salt!! Had my labs drawn today for my nephrology appointment next week and my sodium was low. I usually limit salt because of the kidney disease, but she’d told me last time when my sodium was low that I might be overdoing it a bit - and that my body needs some sodium. So she said to increase my intake just a a bit. Well, this set of labs showed another drop in sodium. <snap…..shucks and darn> Means more salt!!
But the big news was my GFR - all the way up to 37! I can’t believe it! I’m so darned happy right now!! At one point I was down to 19, and 15 is when they start talking dialysis and/or transplant! Transplant is out. I probably couldn’t handle the procedure at my age and with my other issues, and there’s no way I’d take a kidney that was a match for me away from a matched, much younger person with a long life ahead of him/her anyway. And dialysis is out. I watched my beloved sister Linda go through that for 4 years and I can honestly say that I couldn’t do it. So my only option was to try to restore at least some kidney function and then maintain what I have left. And I‘m didding it!!
I’ll take a frozen Margarita with extra salt, please, and let’s play scrabble!!