{"id":93,"date":"2009-12-18T04:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T04:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-06-29T04:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:15:56","slug":"december-18-2008-%e2%80%93-biopsy-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/december-18-2008-%e2%80%93-biopsy-results\/","title":{"rendered":"December 18, 2008 \u2013 Biopsy Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"yiv452458836\">\n<div>Hello friends,<\/div>\n<div>I went for a follow up visit to the nephrologist Wednesday to find  out my results.\u00a0 I am trying not to dwell on this and have cried\u00a0quite a  bit.\u00a0 I had my dad go with me and I am so glad I did!\u00a0 He got quite  choked up himself and it\u2019s probably the 3rd time in my entire life that  he\u2019s cried (that I could witness).<\/div>\n<div>I have a kidney diseas called IgA nephropathy.\u00a0 There is no rhyme or reason this came about\u2013 she said kidney diseases  just sneak up on us.\u00a0 She misdiagnosed the losing 40% of function\u2013 it\u2019s  50% in\u00a0less than a year\u00a0and just in the past (2) weeks I have lost  another 20% and now have only 30% function of both kidneys.<\/div>\n<div>There is no treatment or cure for this.\u00a0 What the plan is: slow the  deterior process down.\u00a0 This is done through fish oil and lowering my  cholesterol.\u00a0 Yes, for those that do not know, I have high (high risk)  cholestrol.\u00a0 This is all caused by the disease.<\/div>\n<div>She shared that she will not discuss dialysis or transplant until i  reach 20%.\u00a0 For all we know, this could happen in the next week or 2\u2013<\/div>\n<div>I am to have a follow up in 2 months\u2013 I am not okay with this and  neither is my family.\u00a0 How are we to know if things are deteriorating?\u00a0  Being on medication that I just started yesterday to lower cholesterol  and the fish oil is going to take a week or so to show results, right?\u00a0  The only way to tell the function is deterioating and the cholest. is  lowering is through blood work.\u00a0 I think I should be having this done  weekly.<\/div>\n<div>I have a call into the Dr. to ask this\u2013<\/div>\n<div>I am still not sure about my job\u2013 I shared with my boss that I am  doing the best that I can physically and mentally and if that is not  good enough for the big boss then she needs to do what she needs to do.<\/div>\n<div>I will share that I have a couple really great leads that I am  pursuing thanks to you wonderful friends for sharing some of these!<\/div>\n<div>I continue to ask for prayer\u2013 I do believe that God can heal me  completely.\u00a0 I also am okay and have accepted if this is His will that I  go through all of this and need a transplant in the next year, I am  okay with that too.<\/div>\n<div>I wish you and yours a wonderful Merry Christmas!<\/div>\n<div>Carmen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends, I went for a follow up visit to the nephrologist Wednesday to find out my results.\u00a0 I am trying not to dwell on this and have cried\u00a0quite a bit.\u00a0 I had my dad go with me and I am so glad I did!\u00a0 He got quite choked up himself and it\u2019s probably the<br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/december-18-2008-%e2%80%93-biopsy-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmensrunway.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}