Kidneys, backs and other body bits
May 8th 2009 08:53
Up until the beginning of this week I've been feeling really healthy again: walking comfortably, aquajogging occasionally and so on. But on Monday night I finished up a rehearsal for a drama we're doing at church on Sunday and felt an increasing pain in my back - around the kidney area. Went home and went to bed, and barely slept, because I couldn't get comfortable. As usual, I suspected all sorts of things: cancer of the kidney (?), the need for dialysis, and so on. All the usual worries. Of course, in the morning, I put them aside and got on with life again. Took some Voltaren in the end, and that seemed to settle things down. Also provided a urine sample to see if by any chance I had another UTI, and though the doctor generously provided me with yet more antibiotics as a result, the sample proved to have nothing particular buggy in it, when the results came back the next day.
Tuesday night I slept quite well, with no great pain. Wednesday morning I lent to one side to get something out of a drawer and back came the back pain, strong as ever. Finally went to the doctor on Thursday after another night of discomfort, and she gauged it might be a kidney stone. And gave me yet another pill to take regularly. But by my reading of the Internet (now the doctor's bane!) it seems that if you've got a kidney stone, you'll know all about it. It's likely to be excruciating, and the Accident and Emergency Dept is where you'll head in a hurry.
I haven't been there yet, and it doesn't look as though I'll be going. Today, with a combination of the antibiotics (which I probably don't need) and the renal colic tablets (which I might or might not need) I've survived without any great disasters. Slept well last night too. There's still a bit of a niggle, and I'm not going to go leaping about just yet, but at the moment it seems as though I'm on the mend again.
Though I can't say the office furniture helps to keep my back comfortable. We bought me a new chair recently - when it was put together it turned out to have one side higher than the other, slightly! Took it back to the shop and they made another up on the spot for us. I'm beginning to feel as though it's going the same way, but it could be my imagination, and the fact that I'm supposed to have one leg slightly shorter than the other - courtesy of my doctor's measuring the legs last time I was there.
You go through life thinking that all your bodily bits ought to match up: seems that they seldom do.
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