First off I want to thank EVERYONE for their thoughts and prayers for Patty. It means a lot to BOTH of us. You all DO have a pack mindset, when one member of the pack is sick/hurt the others tend to them. THANK YOU!

Ok, called the Doctor today and told the lady on the phone what we were told. She was totally blown away and expressed much sympathy and apologies for what/how it was told to us. She then gave us over to the Doctors Nurse and she said: Patty is BORDERLINE renal failure. They told her to come off the Metformin because can/does mess with the Kidneys and that if she stayed on it her Kidneys WOULD fail. They told her to do her best with diet to control the Diabetes but that IF her blood sugar level got to 150 or above to call them. They also told her that if she noticed any other changes to let them know, ref the shaking, urination etc.

She is still in hot water, but at least now it's not boiling and it has (we pray) a chance to turn to room temperature. They said that they are hoping the by taking her off the Metformin it will "give her kidneys a break" and they can repair themselves at least as much as they can. Like I said, don't really know what this means for the long haul but it is at least looking up some for now. BUT she still has the birth defect with her Kidneys to deal with and the Chronic Kidney/bladder infections.
At least she sees her Urologist AND the Endocrinologist both next month. So please keep thinking of us as we do you, and again THANK YOU ALL!

Randy and Patty

More smoke sent from Texas!

Keep up the positive attitude and fight the good fight, Patty!

If Patty can handle living with you, she can handle this. Smoke sent.

Much better news! Nice way to start of the week.

Thanks for the up-date Randy.
All my best to you and Patty

Yote' said it all -- that's great news Randy!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

That is good news! I will continue to keep you and Patty in my prayers!

Prayer and positive attitude, my friend, will do wonders. Thanks for letting us know the good news.

I'm glad it was just a miscommunication. Hopefully they'll figure out what the main problem is and get a treatment figured out <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

That is much better news brother! Glad to hear it!

Thank you EVERYBODY for your well wishes and prayers. We still have a ways to go, and it still may go south, but at least for now, she's maintaining and they said If they can keep her just a bit better she can function for quite a while. I guess only time will tell. Hopefully they can get rid of this CHRONIC kidney/bladder infection she has, that I would think should help.

Again thank you each and every one, you have helped ME a lot. As I originally said, she was taking it better than I was at first.

Good to hear things are looking better, best wishes from here.

I pray for Patty's recovery, Randy. Sounds like she has been having a very rough time.