Happy Birthday Susan!
Today is my sister Susan's birthday! Happy Birthday!
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UCONN vs Stetson - Postgame Press Conference
UConn First Round Postgame Press Conference - 2024 NCAA Tournament
Interesting story on the culture Dan Hurley has built at UCONN
Found this on Youtube. Pretty good story about Dan Hurley and UCONN. A deep dive into the UConn Huskies' championship culture
My Prosthetic...
So, when Susan, Mom, Micky and Lexi came down to visi with me, they may have noticed that while I generally get around pretty good on my prosthetic leg, there were times it was a little dodgy. Thats because as you use your prostetic more and more, my stump changes shape -- it becomes more streamlined and smaller. As a result, the connection between my leg and the prosthetic -- which is solely based on a tight fit and suction -- had loosened up a bit. Below Knee Prosthetics However, I was able to make it into my clinician. Synergy Orthodics and Prosthetics , and they they game me re-fittingn socks ( btw, that is not me in the picture on their website). When your stump has changed only a little, you basically increase the size of the stump by wearing thicker coverings to tighten the fit. After receiving the socks, I am back to normal. Oncew my stump changes to a certain point where additional socks are no longer practical,...
Another Health update...
Things are continuing to look good... I had my most recent follow-up with the Kidney doctors, and they made no bones about the fact that they are extremely happy with my progress. Initially, my kidney was filtering out fluid, but was slow to start filtering out toxins. Well it appears that that process has also kicked in, as my Creatinine Clearance has improved dramatically. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK544228/#:~:text=%5B3%5D%20Creatinine%20clearance%20(CrCl,Glomerular%20Filtration%20Rate Normal levels for a Creatnine Ratio is below 30. You can see by the attached chart that I am approaching that number quickly. My GFR is also improving. As you can tell this kidney is doing its job. Hopefully things will continue to improve. I will send another update shortly. -Dan
Quick note on posting to this site....
Everyone should be able to post to the site if they want to. I simply need to get the preferred email that yiou would like to use, and I will send you a one-time invite and you should be all set. Posting is very easy it really is simply typing into paragraph. If you are interested in creating posts, just send me the email that you would like to use to do so. Comments should be able to made anonymously. -Dan