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Wednesday, 25 January 2006
At Least A Partial Answer
So today I had a CAT scan done, and this afternoon, I met with a specialist who thinks he knows what the cause of my current health stuff is.

I worked last night, and I have been up all day, having spent much of that day in the hospital or at the clinic. So I'm not exactly happy.

But I have at least a partial answer to what's going on with me. It's called a Horseshoe Kidney.

Now, there are a lot worse things that could be wrong, and frankly I'm a little relieved. And as I noted yesterday, I'm no longer fighting a fever and in general I feel okay.

I'm just really tired. And low on energy. But I don't work tonight, and tomorrow is an easy day with just a couple of hours of training in the morning.

The specialist is thinking I need to have a couple of procedures done to determine if I need some fiddling around done inside my innards. Chances are that everything is fine, and once I kick this infection completely, I may be able to just forget everything else.

The Power of Suggestion

One of my favorite movies ever is Airplane!. And one of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Captain Oveur is overhearing someone describe all the terrible symptoms of the food poisoning that has incapacitated the crew and most of the passengers.

As Oveur hears each symptom, he shows that he has them. I'm kind of like that. I've never really noticed before, but in the past week, doctors and nurses have been asking me if I hurt here or there, or if I notice this or that symptom.

And of course, now I have them all. I'm sure that I don't really have every symptom they've asked me about, but darned if every so often I feel like I do.


Posted by michaelsawin at 7:00 PM CST
Updated: Friday, 27 January 2006 1:46 PM CST
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Friday, 27 January 2006 - 2:30 PM CST

Name: Mike Norton
Home Page: http://miraclo.blogspot.com/

Horseshoe kidney was a new one for me, but five minutes later and I could give an oral report on it if I had to. ;) As you said, once you clear this infection you should be fine; the fusion/linkage between the kidneys is just part of what leaves you more vulnerable to problems, in part because if something happens to one it affects both. (All, of course, which you already know, but this is for the sake of the audience playing at home.) It's present in roughly 1 in 600 people, and is more likely in males than females.

The same things everyone should do for good kidney health (drink plenty of water, work some cranberry juice in there somewhere, and try not to eat huge amounts of protein in a single sitting) are doubly important for someone with this condition.

re: symptoms I'm terribly suggestible that way if I don't keep my guard up. If I gave myself half a chance I'd be getting kidney pains by now.

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