It's been a rough, sleepless two nights for Dan. The nurses in the CSICU, as nice as they were, woke Dan up only a few hours after he got there. He didn't get the day or two of sedated sleep to begin healing we were told of. The first night was rough, made more so by spasms in his back due to his history of back pain and a new bed to adjust to, not to mention a new world of pain he's never known before. Getting his lumbar support the following morning helped, and by 11am they finally had the PCA hooked up - Patient Controlled Anathesia. Having the button to push himself whenever he felt the need to helped him get the pain down on the pain scale, and keep it down. Then came troubling news about his remaining kidney. We knew it would take a hit and were warned about the possible need for dialysis, and that is what ended up happening the following morning, today. After yet another rough night of little sleep, mostly due to the noise of a busy CSICU, he was finally mo...