A Bursting Bag

Well, that's a bit of an exageration but it was a close run thing.

Today I headed back to hospital for a renal scan. This is to establish a base level reading of my kidney function and consists of pictures being taken as my kidneys work. A mildly radioactive substance is injected into a vein and a camera tracks it through my system as the kidneys try to get it out of my system. After about 15 minutes another injection is given which is the same stuff as in a water pill. Now such pills make you run to the bathroom pretty often and you can probably imagine how quickly they work when taken intraveinously like this.

I could feel fluids pumping through my still healing plumbing. My back ached and my stoma was throbbing as my kidneys worked at full capacity.

It was soon over, thank goodness, & I was told that I would keep on passing water pretty rapidly for a couple more hours.

Before leaving the hospital I enptied my leg bag but by the time my cab dropped me at home some 20 minutes later my bag was blown up like a balloon & I really was worried that it might burst.

Luckily I made it up the stairs to the bathroom and emptied for the first of many times well into the afternoon.

The aftereffects of all this are that I have a few more aches and pains and will probably take a pain killer before I go to bed tonight. Clearly I am not completely healed