Bills » Mark

Dragon’. Why Mark needs or wants dragons in his car may take a while to tease out of him.

When Mark asks me to dinner — I feel almost compelled to agree. I am not doing anything else, and I am a terrible cook. I mostly eat ready-to-eat dinners from Foodbox.

So we tend to have an early supper together right after dialysis, and he has a second meal when his wife gets home at 8:00 or so. Some people who have a failed kidney or liver burn a lot of calories just to stay alive, so Mark must be part of that group. When he weighs in his ‘wet weight’ — The weight before dialysis. After dialysis is the ‘dry weight’. Nurses and patients call out the weight to each other and everyone can hear — sounds pretty low. From all appearances he is definitely not retaining fluids, so he must have some amount of kidney function. I wonder why his dialysis session is so long if that is the case?

BILLS » MARK

January

“There is a bill ‘2022-114’ — that would be very bad for Amasa” Dr. A says in her office. We always meet in person. It is much less tiring for me than the concentration I need during a zoom call. Telephones are even worse: I should be able to vocalize, but I have lost the coordination between my lungs and vocal cords. The slight telepathy (or whatever it is) with visual contact is a crutch that helps me a lot.

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