February 2012

It’s been a while since the adventures in kidney world last hit your mail box. I think the last image was of a somewhat bedraggled figure clutching bagels down the Finchley Road. Well, spinal fusion in August: pins,cage and bone graft firmly in place. Six months on and hours of physio later it is pronounced a success. Well the luck had to turn surely?

So now we return to the famous ureter, bladder, kidney which all this time has threatened to erupt into some sort of Icelandic ash cloud effect. Cutting a long story short….bladder now ‘denervated’- sounds exotic – but means its lost all feeling. Now that is damn handy when you really haven’t got time for a ‘comfort break’ when climbing Kilimanjaro or some such.  Delightful medical instrumentation brought to your very own front door in a thoughtfully anonymous brown parcel provides the essential drainage system…