PMS - the time just before a woman's menstrual period when she acts like a man.
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It's now 4 pm. When I called the urologist's office yesterday afternoon, the receptionist said that he was back, but had not yet looked at my reports. He'd call me when he did. He hasn't called yet. I'm getting angry.
Yeah, I know many of the people sitting in his waiting room have bladder cancer, end-stage kidney failure, prostate cancer, things more serious than my miserable stones. BUT! It's serious and important to me!
I can't go anywhere, like up to the old house, because the stent keeps the valve between the kidney and the bladder open, so the kidney keeps dumping into the bladder and causes urinary urgency. When I get the first slight hint that I have to go, I have to go immediately! Like within five seconds. It's exactly ten steps from the computer to the downstairs bathroom, and when I'm wearing the jeans with the side buttons and zipper, I almost don't make it. So if I know I'm going to be away from a bathroom, I can't drink anything. The drive north is too far. I can't get repeatedly that dehydrated while I have the stones.
I'm worried that the useless stent is rubbing and messing up my bladder.
I'm worried that the blocked collection chamber is damaging my left kidney. The kidney is almost unique in the body in that it's the only organ that can't heal. Any damage is permanent, does not get better, ever. In fact, any damage gets worse over time. It's like the kidney is made of dominoes.
I want this fixed NOW!
I'd change doctors, except that being a new patient, I know it will take at least two weeks, probably more, to get an appointment with another.
I am extremely frustrated.
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I heard on TV yesterday that they're seeing an increase in skin cancer on the fingers, a very unusual place, and have pretty much identified it as due to nail polish dryers that use UV light. (I have to wonder about that. Why UV? Wouldn't infra red light be the logical choice for drying nail polish?)
Anyway, today on TV Dr. Oz was pushing teeth whitening systems using UV light. You stick the darn light in your mouth! Ok. How long before they start seeing an increase in mouth cancers? And how long will it take them to figure out why?
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2 comments:
Nothing about manicures and pedicures can be healthy. And why isn't there as much skin cancer on the toes, as they use the same UV drying light on the toe nail polish as well.
I'd love to be able to get a pedicure (don't care for manicures) where they use natural, non-chemical products, and don't insist on polishing my nails. They just do a better job trimming toe nails and cuticles than I do myself.
Fingers get more natural year-round UV exposure, so the base level is higher, and there are fewer pedicures than manicures, even among those who do get both.
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