Just got home with my new part installed. Seems as though it is going to take some time to get back up to partial strength, like 4 to 6 weeks. Lots of pain, lots of bruising blood and other gore. Some parts of the process are truly unimaginable, I guess you just have to go through it.

There is a huge learning process. The number of new drugs, immunosuppressants, anti inflammitory, steriod this that and the other thing. Not to mention the blue ones? (wtf are those for?)

Lab tests tommorow, pharmacy and doctor appointments every other day for the next few months. I hope to get 10 years out of my new kidney. At this point, I am not sure I would do it again.

I appreciate all of your thoughts and prayers and hope to get back out on the water next spring , if not sooner.

See Ya
GutZ

Good news Gutz !

Stay strong Gutz, takes a bull to break through most of life's tribulations and you Sir are no cow, prayers and thoughts are with you, jfk

Get well soon!

OH MAN! GOOD FOR YOU, GUTZ!!

Glad to hear about the progress of my favorite Chandler.

Get well soon GutZ so you can get out on the sound or river.
Your Tebow steelhead pose still cracks me up.

Happy to hear about it, Jeff...no matter how bad it sucks right now, it doesn't suck as bad as all the schit you went thru without it! You'll be right as rain before too long.

Fish on...

Todd

Get Well Soon !!!

I am so happy for you!

My heartfelt prayers for your recovery and your bodies' acceptance of your new guts.

Great news, GutZ. Glad to hear things are going as well as can be expected.

Awesome news Jeff! The boys and I wish you the speediest recovery... If there is anything you need or need help with let me know

It won't be too long and the surgery will be a distant memory. You'll do well as you have the right mental makeup to plow through the next few months. Better get yourself some of those zipper front waders as your are going to need them.

Awesome to hear Jeff. . . . . .keep doing what the doc's tell ya and you will be back on the Kitten in no time ! !

Fabulous news Gutz! Glad to have you back.


Just have to power through these last hurdles so you can get back out there.

I'd had always heard that if something bleeds for a week you should just let it die and start over pretty sure that didn't have anyuthing to do with kidney surgery though.

Rough night, up every hour draining this and that. Off to see the doctor this morning for lessons in being drugged, more poking and prodding.

Thanks for all the encouraging words. I do appreciate it.

I am sure as the process goes on, this part will seem like more and more of a distant memory (and , oh yeah!, I do have the oxycodone to help

Good timing Gutz! You rode the chinook and coho wave and will be back in the game for the peninsula.

Great to hear you got a kidney and are making it through :-)

Hey GutZ, I read on the interwebs somewhere that eating salmon is a big no-no on new body parts......I better come over and rid your freezer of the temptations.

Seriously good news, hope you are back doing your voodoo soon

Wishing you a rapid recovery Gutz! Rapid being a relative term, cuz that's some major surgery you just experienced. Be well. And enjoy the drugs while you can!

Congrats on the new piss filter, GutZ!