The Sunday before the wedding, they had an incident at the hospital. His nurse noticed his blood pressure was a little high, so she wanted to give him some blood pressure medicine thru his IV to bring it down. Bryce told her it's usually a little bit high, so not to be too worried, but she gave him the medicine anyway. It spiked again and at this point he started to get a bit of a headache. Bryce told her she should maybe check with the doctor before she gave him more. She didn't, and decided to give him more an hour or so later. It spiked even higher, giving him a massive migraine and causing him to throw up (keep in mind he'd had MAJOR surgery in his abdomen just days before. Dozens of stitches several layers deep in his stomach.) Naturally, this caused his BP to go even HIGHER (vomiting and pain will do that!) The nurse wanted to give him MORE! At this point Bryce insisted "Do not give me any more until you check with the doctor." She left and never came back. Bryce didn't see her again the rest of his stay. (Not sure what happened to her but this taught us to be your own advocate at the hospital! Speak up and be vocal about what you want and need! And if you feel strongly enough about it, talk to whoever you need to until you get what you need!) This all caused his numbers to go up and set him back a few days going home.
His numbers never have come back down to where they were right after surgery.
The day of the wedding, he went to Logan to the sealing but by the end he was exhausted. He remembers getting in the car with his Mom and after that he doesn't remember much. She drove him back to the hospital in Salt Lake (LDS Hospital) where he stayed another 2-3 days.
The first week-10 days after he got released he had to stay in Salt Lake for close proximity in case of problems. Moff being just minutes from the hospital he stayed with her. She was amazing- she gave up her bed to him for a week, made him breakfast in bed and nursed and pampered and took excellent care of him. He still had a catheter in at this time, since they don't want the bladder to get too full and back up into the kidney, potentially causing infections and complications. He had to go back to the hospital every 3 days to get an intravenous electrolyte treatment for his kidney. It took about two hours each time and they would draw blood at the end to analyze the kidneys performance.
After a week resting up at Moff's he went back to Clifton to rest and recover some more. After about a week there, he had to get back to Rexburg and finish his last semester at BYU-Idaho. He spent a lot of time sleeping alone in his room, his hair was falling out left and right (a possible side affect of his medications and/or a traumatic event such as an organ transplant!) and he missed a lot of class. He was supposed to stay away from people; his immune system was low because of the anti-rejection meds he was on, so he didn't go to church much either.
About mid-February he said he started feeling better. He was able to go to more classes, be a bit more social and not sleep as much, and start being more active by participating in more intramural sports events. Bryce said his professors were really awesome and willing to work with him, giving him extra time to complete and make up assignments. It was his lowest semester GPA-wise but he still took 17 credits and kept good grades.
He walked at graduation in May, all his family there to celebrate the victory. He did it! He made it through college AND an organ transplant! Now onto regular life!
The day of the wedding, he went to Logan to the sealing but by the end he was exhausted. He remembers getting in the car with his Mom and after that he doesn't remember much. She drove him back to the hospital in Salt Lake (LDS Hospital) where he stayed another 2-3 days.
The first week-10 days after he got released he had to stay in Salt Lake for close proximity in case of problems. Moff being just minutes from the hospital he stayed with her. She was amazing- she gave up her bed to him for a week, made him breakfast in bed and nursed and pampered and took excellent care of him. He still had a catheter in at this time, since they don't want the bladder to get too full and back up into the kidney, potentially causing infections and complications. He had to go back to the hospital every 3 days to get an intravenous electrolyte treatment for his kidney. It took about two hours each time and they would draw blood at the end to analyze the kidneys performance.
After a week resting up at Moff's he went back to Clifton to rest and recover some more. After about a week there, he had to get back to Rexburg and finish his last semester at BYU-Idaho. He spent a lot of time sleeping alone in his room, his hair was falling out left and right (a possible side affect of his medications and/or a traumatic event such as an organ transplant!) and he missed a lot of class. He was supposed to stay away from people; his immune system was low because of the anti-rejection meds he was on, so he didn't go to church much either.
About mid-February he said he started feeling better. He was able to go to more classes, be a bit more social and not sleep as much, and start being more active by participating in more intramural sports events. Bryce said his professors were really awesome and willing to work with him, giving him extra time to complete and make up assignments. It was his lowest semester GPA-wise but he still took 17 credits and kept good grades.
He walked at graduation in May, all his family there to celebrate the victory. He did it! He made it through college AND an organ transplant! Now onto regular life!
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