Today's Plan

Okay so we finally have a plan and have put it into action. Max just finished a four hour trial of PD to see if it would work on the cycler and it did. So, we are going to hook him back up around 7pm for his 12 hour treatment, just like we would do at home, to see if it will work. This is when we usually find ourselves having issues. We are hoping that if we start the treatment while Max still awake, we can get through the problematic first 2 or 3 cycles. If this fails, we are going to try the hospital's cycler to make sure that it's not our personal one that I brought from home.

Other than that, we all still think that his fill volumes are too low for the machine's liking. We have to move very slowly to get him back up to his fill volume of 480mL because of the 2 surgeries that he had only 10 days apart. He went up to 280mL this afternoon and I am hoping that they will increase him to 300mL tomorrow. The sooner we get that level up the better. We shall see if that really is the issue.

We have totally ruled out that it's not the catheter, thank goodness. It's either the machine or his fill volume.

Keep those fingers crossed that we figure this out so that we can go home and enjoy the holiday weekend.