Back to life..? 18 8 30 (15) The part to do with recovering 25 1 31


But I feel more and more that I am going to make a complete recovery from my recent sickness which began 4 weeks and 3 days ago on Monday 29th July when I came down with a number of things but which after a week the diagnosis was getting stronger for the main problem which appeared to be a kidney stone, too large to exit my bladder, which in turn lead to my right side kidney becoming inflamed and the reason for excruciating pain in my right-side back, and for which a week ago I was scheduled for an operation to have it blasted with high pressure CO2, that’s carbon dioxide, through a catheter. Fortunately after the Urologist heard my story 2 days after his making assessment and of the need for an operation, that I had noticed black objects appearing in my urine, he had a second CT scan conducted when it was confirmed the stone in question had become smaller, and had now entered my urethra, so that now my operation has been postponed to see whether the fragmentation process continues, meaning I shall pass the stone by natural means? I was careful to question the Urologist about all the things that could go wrong with his procedure, about which he was able to give me the statistics for the various side effects, and in a word, put my mind at rest though clearly to pass the stone naturally will be the best possible outcome.

One aspect of the treatment was that I stopped taking all my night-time medication, most important of which was my medication at 3 x 750 mg of Diformin for Type ll diabetes and several weeks later I am still only taking 2 x 750 mg, with better blood glucose levels, and the approval of my doctor for this reduction, and instead of only taking the minimum of water to get these medications down my throat, I have been taking ever greater volumes of water, which have had the effect of my bladder expanding more and more to accommodate this change, without the need to go to the loo several times a night… hahaha

And all of which suggests to me that there is still life in old dog yet and that life is not only doom and gloom for the Aged and that more and more perhaps one should adopt the adage that hey (Old) Age Is Only a Number.   

Foootnote added 2025 2 1 It has been most instuctive these past few weeks having someone read my catalogue of Sodaigomedy blogs todate numbering more than 800. It's been good as a consequence dipping into them on my account from a further 7 to 11 years further down the road of life's way: started in 2013 6 13 when MySpace withdrew its Blog facility up until let's say 2024 6 13 or thereabouts when i was still publishing new material? But i can no longer claim to recall what i wrote from the blog titles anymore which means their content is more interesting than ever to me their author. And a very useful record of what my life was all about as i became seriously old now in my 86th year. When i'm going to add that i have lost much of the appetite I had for writing it as one consequence but perhaps more to the point is that i have started working out exercising more than ever in a morning walking the 2 km for my swim doing my daily shopping to get back here by lunchtime etc., i do not have so much inactivity any more left over for writing. Hence this footnote to a blog charting "Heat exhaustion" so far fortunately its only occurence so far in my life. Good luck with your lives one and all! It's been a great vehicle for me: even if it has become simply re-posting old blogs at this time in my life. hahaha!!!

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