by Tonya McCulloch | Aug 28, 2020 | Care Giving, Personal Care
Bring on the vitamin D! W What is your guilty pleasure? For me….. it’s an hour on a float in the pool. I don’t care if its a small 10′ pool or an Olympic size pool…. this is my latest guilty pleasure!! A guilty pleasure is something that...
by Tonya McCulloch | Aug 17, 2020 | Care Giving, Personal Care
Take the time for a face mask!! Don’t forget about yourself, especially in this crazy COVID time!! Your mental health and pampering of yourself is just as important as drinking water. We were released from the hospital on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning I...
by Tonya McCulloch | Aug 17, 2020 | Care Giving
Temporary living Welcome home….. kind of. Since we live more than 60 miles away from our transplant facility we have to stay in the KC area for 2 weeks. Some have asked WHY?!?!? During the recovery phase of kidney transplant you have to be seen in their...
by Tonya McCulloch | Aug 17, 2020 | Care Giving
FB Post that got the ball rolling July 9th started out as any other day. It was Kevin’s birthday and he had dialysis in the morning. On dialysis days he’s not very energetic so I wasn’t sure what we would do to celebrate. Around 3:30 in the afternoon we...
by Tonya McCulloch | Aug 17, 2020 | Care Giving
Pre-Op Selfie I held his hand, we said a prayer, then I walked beside him down the halls to the operating room. I kissed him goodbye and quickly wiped tears so he couldn’t see them. He was nervous enough without knowing how nervous I was for him. Two weeks ago we were...
by Tonya McCulloch | Aug 17, 2020 | Care Giving
At least you can see our eyes!! So this is how you do 5 hours transplant/surgeon consults at KU… they put you in a room and they come in/out all day long while you have to keep masks on the entire time. Because we have had just about every test known to man they...
