I’m sorry to say this health saga is continuing to give me a hard time as I have averaged a kidney colic episode at least every second day, with three attacks one day during the last three weeks or so.
Bloody painfull
Finally got my appointment to have the kidney stone removed next Tuesday ...........however......last Thursday night I noticed that a firm warmish lump, sore to touch, had appeared on a varicose vein high on my thigh, so Friday it’s off to my GP who diagnosed a blood clot and sent me off straigh away to have a Doppler Ultrasound done on my right leg.
End result of that examination confirmed that there is also a Deep Vein Thrombosis in the lower leg, in other words a blood clot in a vein that in this case goes directly to the lungs.
I was told to go back and see my GP again immediately by the examining technician as a matter of extreme urgency........unfortunately my GP has Friday afternoons off, and it having been impressed on me that this is an urgent matter, I decided to go to the emergency clinic at the Casey hospital.
Arrived there at 3.00 pm and was finally seen by a doctor at 8.00 pm.
After him reading the report from the U/sound technician and examining my leg, decided that the matter was not urgent and sent me home again..........5 hours waiting and a 7 dollar parking fee.......
So today back to my GP and after telling her the story she goes right off, and phones the hospital. Then writes me a referral and tells me to go back to Casey hospital for urgent treatment.
Keep in mind that if they give me the appropriate treatment for the DVT the procedure to remove the kidney stone is automatically cancelled.
This time the waiting time was only one and a half hours, seen by the same doctor again, and again was sent home, as according to him the matter is not urgent.
So at this point in time I’m due at Casey hospital on Monday for an X-ray to confirm the location of the kidney stone, and again on Tuesday to hopefully have it removed.
Then I guess the DVT will require treatment.
To be quite honest I’m sitting here right now in my office in my garage with my bike parked beside me, bloody confused and not feeling real good.
PS. tomorrow is my GLW’s birthday so I better spark up and not spoil it for her, as I did promise to take her to the Kew boathouse for lunch, and at least now I can keep that promise.