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Jun. 27th, 2014 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWent to the urologist yesterday. I was in the waiting room for quite some time- I think an hour, maybe an hour and a half- but I'm not complaining. I have never in my life seen so many unhappy old men in one place. I know how triage works; those guys were there because they were sick, or trying not to be. I was just there for a check-over.
Turns out the initial x-ray found a four-millimeter object of some kind, which the doctor believes is a stone. I have to get a CT scan to confirm this. First available appointment's in late July. Until then I have orders to drink 2.5 liters water per day, stop adding salt to my diet in general, add lemons (and other citrus fruit, but mostly lemons) to my diet in general, and consume no more than two deck-of-cards-size servings of 'anything you have to kill to eat*' per day.
On the one hand, I'm angry because if that thing shows up on the CT scan in a month's time, I almost certainly won't get my FAA certificate. On the other hand, I'm rather glad I got sent to the urologist in the first place, because that's not the kind of thing that shows up in a routine physical. And on the gripping hand, I am going to view this as a sign that I am so hardcore I can walk around with a rock in my abdomen and not even notice. You take your consolations where you can get them. If I am very lucky the citric acid and the water will do their magic and I will get a clear scan and a note saying "stone tendencies are under control, she's clear to fly"... we'll see.
*The doctor's words were 'fish, chicken- anything you have to kill- meat'. I get the feeling some semi-vegetarian tried to say that fish didn't count as meat or something like that. Maybe not for purposes of philosophy or something, but as far as the kidneys go it does.
Turns out the initial x-ray found a four-millimeter object of some kind, which the doctor believes is a stone. I have to get a CT scan to confirm this. First available appointment's in late July. Until then I have orders to drink 2.5 liters water per day, stop adding salt to my diet in general, add lemons (and other citrus fruit, but mostly lemons) to my diet in general, and consume no more than two deck-of-cards-size servings of 'anything you have to kill to eat*' per day.
On the one hand, I'm angry because if that thing shows up on the CT scan in a month's time, I almost certainly won't get my FAA certificate. On the other hand, I'm rather glad I got sent to the urologist in the first place, because that's not the kind of thing that shows up in a routine physical. And on the gripping hand, I am going to view this as a sign that I am so hardcore I can walk around with a rock in my abdomen and not even notice. You take your consolations where you can get them. If I am very lucky the citric acid and the water will do their magic and I will get a clear scan and a note saying "stone tendencies are under control, she's clear to fly"... we'll see.
*The doctor's words were 'fish, chicken- anything you have to kill- meat'. I get the feeling some semi-vegetarian tried to say that fish didn't count as meat or something like that. Maybe not for purposes of philosophy or something, but as far as the kidneys go it does.
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Date: 2014-06-27 11:49 pm (UTC)The bass bombs broke it up, apparently.
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Date: 2014-06-28 12:12 am (UTC)Hrm.
I wonder if I can get in nice and close to the orchestra during the inevitable playing of the 1812 Overture this July 4th....
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Date: 2014-06-28 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-28 01:51 pm (UTC)