Trip to GP

Went to see the doctor on Monday about the pain in my kidney. Felt a bit of a fraud as the pain had diminished over the weekend. Still not running a temperature and no blood or protein in my wee sample, so it would appear to have been a blown cyst.

Otherwise everything is quiet on the kidney front. Getting more and more fed up with the great British summer, a few days of sun isn't too much to ask is it? Still not long till I go to Spain, so I've got that to look forward to.

Time for an update I think

Well, its been a while since I updated this blog and a lot has happened in the meantime.

First of all on the 17th April my granddaughter was born. She arrived at 16.55 fit and well and weighed in at a healthy 6lb 3oz.

Mum and baby both remain fit and healthy, and she is now smiling a lot and making lots of nice baby gurgles.

On the kidney front the tissue match results came back as a better than 50% match. My sister is now having lots of tests to ensure that she is as fit and healthy as can be. The only concern at present is as she is much smaller than me, is will her kidney function sufficiently for my body size. She is going for a creatinine clearance test soon and this should tell us whether it filters fast enough to be suitable for transplant. Unfortunately her tests have been delayed slightly as she has had glandular fever, and although she appears to have recovered quickly and fully this may delay things a little.

Health wise I remain as fit and healthy as can be expected. I haven't managed to loose any further weight since my last hospital visit, but at least I haven't put any weight on. I have developed a pain in my left flank in the last day or so, which may be a kidney stone, a ruptured cyst or an infection. As I'm still peeing normally and not running a temperature I'm guessing its a cyst but I'm off to see the doc on Monday to get it checked. Or sooner if it gets worse. I'm still managing to work part-time, which is good and helps keep me away from feeling sorry for myself.

The feeling sorry for myself has in part been why I haven't updated my blog for a while. I was beginning to be obsessed with Kidneys and kidney disease and was spending hours trawling the net, looking at various sites and message boards. Ultimately this was making less happy and rather than appreciating the good things in life I became fixated on the negative and in particular feeling that life was unfair. So I decided to have a period away from the computer and to focus on my family and my other hobbies for a bit. This appears to have been helpful and I'm much happier and settled now.

The downside of being away from the computer has been I have missed contacting people who I only have contact with by computer, and the 1000+ emails in my in box. Still working through them, most of which are from banks I don't have accounts with, Nigerians who want me to look after their money and companies wanting to sell me Viagra. Isn't the Internet a wonderful thing......

Well that's about it for now, I have a clinic appointment due soon so I'll hopefully update then if not before.