It’s my birthday today but I am not at home cooking up a storm for my family…and neither am I out shopping till my feet hurt…nope in fact I spent the entire day at the hospital – the National Kidney Transplant Institute – to give myself a unique birthday gift… the gift of health! You see a few times last year, I felt some bit of pain in my lower abdomen and also at my lower back and back then (when we didn’t have a medical health card yet) I shouldered the doctor’s fees gamely just to ensure that the pain would go away. And it did but he recommended some tests which I was unable to follow through since I didn’t have the money for it e! This time around, since we already have a card, I decided to take my leave of absence not at home but undergoing a thorough checkup for my kidneys…
In the morning, when I arrived at the office I immediately left for the hospital to see the doctor who then prescribed some tests for me to undergo – I had urine tests, blood tests, a KUB (Kidney, ureter, bladder) x-ray, CBC and some kind of ultrasound wherein I was made to drink lots of water before they checked out my bladder then made to pee and checked once again…truly a one-of-a-kind experience. It took me the entire day to finish all my tests but I am glad that I finally did it because at least now I would truly know what it was that had been troubling me…
P.S. It was about a week after that I learned that there was indeed a stone in my kidney but it was nothing to be truly alarmed about…or so the doc says. He says it did not require any surgery but that I should just drink more water and jog a bit so that I could pass the stone out thru natural means…it’s that small! So I guess it’s good knowing my kidneys are still OK…
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