BUN/Creat/Sodium Stats:

BUN/Creat/Sodium Stats
Date	BUN	BUN/Creat	Creatinine	Sodium	State of Health
9/2/04	28 H	21.5	1.3	135	Anemic
8/18/04	31 H	31 H	1.0	141	Anemic
8/12/04	36 H	36 H	1.0	141	Anemic
8/9/04	46 H	41.8 H	1.1	139	Anemic
8/5/04	33 H	33 H	1.0	134 L	Anemic
8/4/04	29 H	29 H	1.0	135	Anemic
8/3/04	22	22	1.0	136	Anemic
8/2/04	20	22	0.9	130 L	Anemic
8/1/04	20	25	0.8	126 L	Anemic
6/29/04	24	20	1.2	135	Anemic
6/10/04	22	22	1.0	136	Anemic
6/9/04	26 H	26	1.0	130 L	Anemic
6/8/04	27 H	27	1.0	125 L	Anemic - Blood Transfusion
3/5/04	23	223	1.0	137
2/10/04	19	19	1.0	136	Anemic
1/12/04	23 H	25.5	0.9	138	Anemic
8/08/03	24	24	1.0	139
7/18/03	31 H	28.2 H	1.1	138	Anemic
7/07/03	32 H	26.7	1.2	138	Anemic
7/3/03	26 H	21.7	1.2	139	Anemic
5/22/03	19	21.1	0.9	144	Barely anemic
4/10/03	34 H	34 H	1.0	139	Anemic
4/9/03	34 H	24.3	1.4	138	Anemic
4/3/03	42 H	32.3 H	1.3	140	Anemic
1/23/03	29 H	26.4	1.1	141
12/20/02	27 H	24.5	1.1	141
10/22/02	23	23	1.0	140
9/17/02	30 H	30 H	1.0	141	Anemic
12/21/01	25	27.8	0.9	144	Hemo & Hema Above Range
8/1/01	24	21.8	1.1	139
12/13/00	22	24.4	0.9	146 H
7/27/00	29 H	29 H	1.0	140	Anemic

    This was a table I devised and used when my mother was at the skilled nursing facility. I used it to question a doctor about the history of high readings BUN/Creatinine-wise in an effort to solicit information. He pointed out the uniformly normal Creatinine readings and said, "She runs high." A medical shrug. Now, I know that she runs high because she is the preparatory stages of Chronic Renal Failure. From the way I see it, now, she's actually pretty lucky, considering everything, and her long history of anemia, which was unaddressed until 2002 but, as the lab tests show, she was continuing her history of anemia, not initiating it. She believes she has been anemic all her life. She also remembers, though, not taking well to iron supplements when pregnant. It would definitely be interesting to know if she has always "run anemic" and thus her kidney stats have run half and half high. Probably, the story will be visible in how her Chronic Renal Failure and her Anemia of Chronic Disease play out.