Well here we are hopefully last day of hospitals for a while. Thank you so much for all your messages this morning both text, email and facebook. I am feeling surrounded by your thoughts and prayers. They mean so much. Hopefully today will go smoothly. It does seem amazing to be having my fistula closed off. |I did expect to have this fistula for the rest of my life. It will be strange not to have the buzzing in my arm any more. I am not aware of it until I touch my arm and then I can feel it - the swishing of the blood as it pulses through the vein at high speed. It is almost exactly a year since we started using it in dialysis. It would be wonderful if this does sort my arm out or if it at least enables me to be able to wear a compression sleeve to reduce its size. We shall see.

I will let you know later how it goes if I can or tomorrow if it is too late when i get home. My appointment is 11.30 in Oxford for an afternoon op.