Brave, Strong, Couragous....determined

This is my husband.

I can't put into words how proud I am of him. Not just his determination in his weight loss but his determination to stay alive.

As I posted before, he is now in training for "Home hemo dialysis". The training is five days per week for about 5 weeks.

His VERY first day of training, they showed him how to set up the dializer, had him clean his access and then handed him one of the lines for him to put in himself. The "lines" are basically a needle connected to a tubing that will allow the blood to flow either in or out of his body. Yep, he had to stick himself - the very first day!

They had him start on the arterial side and he got the needle in but he just couldn't get in just right, so the nurse had to take over. To Willy's credit though, his arterial side is in really deep and it's kinda turned, so it's tricky trying to position himself and get the needle in just right.

The past two days he's done the veinous side and got the line in no problem.

He has to draw his own blood thinner (heprin) and inject it through the lines. He has to take his own BP and monitor it. He's going to have to draw his own labs and spin it in a centrifuge here at home once he's all set up.

I look at him in amazement. He's not balked at this once. He's not complained about sticking himself once. He's ready and he's willing and he's DETERMINED.