Transplantation 101

I thought I would see how much of our training from yesterday I could remember.

Things Kacie has to do:

-Drink four 16oz bottles of water daily.
-Weigh herself each morning.
Any 2 lb variation daily or 4 lbs in a week has to be called in.
-Take blood pressure morning and night prior to medications.
-Take temperature daily. Anything over 100 has to be called in.
-For 4-6 weeks Kacie has to wear a mask when in public.
-Any exposure to chicken pox has to be called in immediately.
-If she ever vomits or has diarrhea more than twice a day, that has to be called in.
-The first two weeks we have to get her up at night to go the bathroom. They don't want her bladder to get to full until the incision heals completely.
-She can't ever have Advil or NyQuil or grapefruit, starfruit or mandarin oranges.
-She has to always have sunscreen on when outside.
-She is not to be around secondhand smoke and was threatened by the nurse to never smoke or do drugs.
-Kacie will need a kidney guard to wear when participating in sports.
-We had to order Kacie a medical alert bracelet.

Kacie's List of Medications:

-Prograf 4mg twice a day - lifetime
-Valcyte 450 mg once a day - 6 months
-Septra ss once a day - 6 months
-baby aspirin 81 mg once a day - 1 month
-Amlodipine 10 mg once a day until blood pressure improves
-Clonidine Patch TTS-2 weekly until blood pressure improves
-K-Phos Neutral 250 mg twice a day - 3 to 6 months
-Oxycodone 5 mg every 4-6 hours as needed
-Colace 100 mg twice a day as needed

Lab Schedule:

Discharge to 1 month. . . . . . .Monday, Wed, Fri
Months 2-3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday, Thurs
Months 4-6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday
Months 7-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Every other Monday
After 1 year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monthly
After 18 months . . . . . . . . . . .Every 3 months
After 2 years . . . . . . . . . . . . .Every 4 months
Thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Every 6 months