Happy New Year 2006! I was about to update my blog on the 29th when I ended up going to the hospital to have the stitches from my fistula removed. I stopped into the kidney transplant office because my wound looked sad, beyond my sun tattoo looking like it had a stroke in the process of the transplant, I heal very funny and I was afraid it would eviscerate and open like my last abdominal surgery. However, I had two holes that were not healing and needed to be packed with gauze rather than restitched. I heal in reverse: instead of inside out, I heal outside in, leaving a gap inside that is a welcome spot for infection. They admitted me to have me have a CT scan and needle aspiration since part of my wound was painful (infection?) and seemingly fluid filled. Even my girly parts were swollen. It seems that gravity leads the way when it comes to fluid and when you drain, it goes to the lowest spot. It hurt to sit or lay on my side and just about everything else, I couldn't get comfortable. They were able to adjust this as I was inpatient. Carrie and Anne took care of things, as my mom is in Florida. One terrible situation was that while I was having problems, so was Detroit. He was throwing up with terrible diahrrea, a flare up of his Inflamatory Bowel Disease, likely from too much people food from the holidays. Carrie took charge thankfully, good thing because Anne is allergic to little dogs. I got discharged on New Years eve and slept most of the rest of the weekend. Detroit's bill was $400 and then my medicine was refused coverage because of this new Medicare part d thing , Carrie had to cover me for that too, so I hate owing people money. I'll have to budget for this month.