Ah, but I am forgetting not the "giveth" but the "taketh away" bit. I told the Marsden Hospital about my kidney problette, and whilst it is not cancer (no tumour markers for cancer in the blood) - my kidney function has somehow (between February and the end of May this year, the two times when I had my last blood tests) lost 40% of it's ability to process the bad stuff out of my blood. Fair enough, that's why I feel like crap all the time.
When my left kidney became excuciatingly painful in 1999 (remember that time?) I really thought it was a stone. The pain came on in seconds, just like a stone tumbling into the ureter and causing immediate backflow - putting pressure on the delicate structures inside the kidney. At that time the hospital almost gave me a scan to see if it had stones in, but they were sidetracked by two poor infants who had been accidentally drowned in the bath by their overweight mother who had slipped, landed on them, become unconscious and had trapped them under seven inches of water. The medical workers tried to save the kids but they died. Awful I know. Their sad story is documented here and other places. Lots of tears from them as they found me in the corridor, high as a kite from my heroin jab :-)
So instead they gave me another shot of morphine and sent me home. Oh well, my fault I guess for leaving the hospital. After three months of agony eventually the pain stopped. 18 months later - lots of blood in the urine, the specialist says "Oh your kidney is all blown up and dead, must have been like that since birth". Phooey. Specialists. But at least they were not legally culpable.
Now today my cancer Prof, who is also one of the most eminent urologists in the world (I love him, he listens to my reasoning and disagrees or agrees with me, he changes his stance if I show him that he has reason to change his stance) says, after reviewing my history:
"You are probably a stone former".
So if you get stones in one kidney you are likely to get them in the other, and that is probably what my problem is. So next Friday (when I get back from Norway and Sweden) I will have an ultrasound scan to see if they can find any. Prof suspects not as they usually get passed out in a few days, which is probably what happened to me last week, although I cannot remember peeing a stone.
I have to drink lots of water. I wish I knew what type of stone I was forming, my daughter may well have the same problem you see. I found this:
I had an oxalate stone. What type of diet should I follow? Do I need to avoid foods high in oxalate?
If you have had a kidney stone that contains oxalate, some evidence (research) suggests that limiting high oxalate foods may help reduce your change of forming another oxalate stone. Foods that are high in oxalate include: peanuts, tea, instant coffee (more than 8 ounces a day), rhubarb, beets, beans, beets, berries (blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, etc.), chocolate, Concord grapes, dark leafy greens, oranges, tofu, sweet potatoes and draft beer. Because the stone contains calcium and oxalate, you may also need to follow the calcium recommendations from the last question.
I emphasised the beer. I drank draft beer the night my 1999 kidney pain started. That's what I think did it and I believe that I am an oxalate stone former. But I like eating and drinking so much of that stuff. God is removing my capability to commit any sins of the flesh perhaps?Also, I need to chill out. When my kidney died in 1999 I was way stressed out due to Alice doing a runner with my daughter. Feb-May this year was also very stressful with Katherine being bullied over and over by her mother. I've decided to do what is right, it's the best way to survive. Alice will not abuse our daughter any more.
Still, I have no cancer right now. Hehe. Celebrate good times.
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Sounds like you had a hearty meal, I imagine you as a Harrison Ford-esque character out of Blade Runner chomping on your oriental meal.
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Plastic covered Bibles? So many people annotate or magic-mark their favourite passages, perhaps the bookstore is trying to prevent this value-add service being applied to their stocks of The Bible? According to this link you need a small plastic covered Bible to get rich anyway. I guess Robert Tilton ignores the following? Perhaps they didn't make it into his Bible :-)
1: Matthew 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
2: Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
3: Luke 18:25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
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