On July 27, 2024, David (Skinny) Anderson went into the Granite Falls ER due to high blood pressure, racing heart and shortness of breath. During his ER stay his blood pressure was critically high at 250’s/130’s. A normal blood pressure is around 120/70. After an evaluation, lab reports and consult with cardiology it was determined that they were dealing not only with hypertensive crisis, but renal (kidney) functions indicating acute on chronic renal failure. At this point, Skinny was transferred to Avera Sioux Falls where his care was taken over by Cardiology (heart doctor) and Nephrology (kidney doctor). More tests and labs were done at Avera, but they knew they needed to get his blood pressure down to a safe level without dropping it too quickly. As Dawn said, they were doing a balancing act with oral and IV meds to lower his blood pressure, but unfortunately, it’s as suborn as he is. Cardiology and Nephrology were working together to come up with both short-term and long-term goals for his treatment plan. On July 31st, Dawn announced that Skinny was no longer considered to be in a hypertensive crisis. This was great news, but now they needed to focus on the kidneys and a new secondary diagnosis stage III Congestive Heart Failure. That morning Skinny called Dawn to tell her that they came in to talk about shunt placement for dialysis in addition to starting the process to get him on a kidney transplant list. Once again, Skinny’s loving wife headed to Sioux Falls to be with her husband. Mind you Dawn had been driving back and forth every day, but one where she had rented a hotel room the first night. Dawn and Skinny were told that he may be able to go home on Tuesday and do follow-up labs, appointments, etc in Marshall. With all these professional cardiologists and nephrologists putting their minds together they decided that they wanted to do a kidney biopsy, which was completed on Wednesday, August 2nd. So, as you see, Skinny did not get to come home on Tuesday. Kenna had gotten Dawn a less expensive room in Sioux Falls, so she was able to spend the night Monday and Tuesday. She came back home Wednesday evening to spend the night in their own bed and regroup. At this point, they know that dialysis and a kidney transplant will need to happen. There is a lot that comes with getting a shunt placed, training for dialysis and getting on the list for a Kidney transplant. Dialysis training will consist of Dawn and Skinny going to Sioux Falls for four weeks, four times each week for four hours each day. Many expenses go along with Skinny’s healthcare needs and travel. If you would like to donate to help the Anderson family out, it would be greatly appreciated.
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