This morning I had a repeat of the nuclear kidney function test that took place in January. I got the letter about this test just two working days after my recent check up but they didn't even bother mentioning it which meant it came as a bit of a shock and upset me quite a bit. At first I didn't recognise that it was a repeat test so unexpected was it.
Anyway I attended this morning and the staff were fine and the scan took place on time. As before, a mildly radioactive tracer is injected and its progress is tracked as your kidneys work. Then, just to speed things a bit and make them more interesting they inject you with the same stuff that's in a water pill so your kidneys start to work in overdrive.
The last time they did this I suffered a bit of discomfort as the urine pumped from my kidneys along the ureters and out of the stoma but not this time as, I suppose, things were healed up more solidly.
The main problem is that for the rest of the day I shall be rushing to the toilet regularly, very regularly indeed, to empty my bag.
When I got back from the hospital in my cab the leg bag was just about ready to burst and I had already emptied it twice since the end of the scan. Luckily I'm not planning to go anywhere this afternoon.
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