I was discharged last Sunday. I am still on antibiotics now taken orally instead of IV. My left hand is not as swollen as it was a few days ago but still I am limited in my dexterity on playing the piano.
Gout has been an issue here with me since moving here. Although I’ve had only a couple of bad flare ups this year; last year I was getting it almost every other month. Since my heart attack back late January of this year, I have made some changes slowly in my diet and now walking regularly. The second of the gout flare up this year happen in the hospital last week. I am guessing the beef processed dinners I had for a couple of days caused the flare up. So the infection and gout pain together has been increasing my blood pressure significantly.
I had to see my renal doctor last Monday due to the creatinine levels was not normal to the doctors when I was in the hospital. Fortunately my renal doctor knew my health history from the City of Hope where I had my bone marrow transplant in 1994; my creatinine levels was much worse back then than now. It seems that my kidneys at one point got better but stayed around 50-60% functioning ever since. I know as we get older our kidneys normally decreases in full functioning slowly.
Reflecting back on my health all these years, it all started with a diagnosed of leukemia in 1993 and had a bone marrow transplant in 1994; had a heart attack last January of this year and had 2 stents put in my heart for the blockages I had in my main arteries; and a slowly but steady declining of my kidneys functioning all these years; and gout.
