[Magdalen] Cytoscopy.

[Jay Weigel]

When I had all that glorious surgery several years back, one of the things
that went on was that they found scar tissue essentially blocking one
kidney. A nephrologist was called in (all this happened during the 5 1/2
hours I was on the table) who directed the delicate dissection of scar
tissue away from the ureter and then placed stents in *both* of them "just
to be on the safe side". Apparently the blockage had accounted for the
unexplained sudden rise in my blood pressure and the weird lab values that
had gone on for the previous 3-4 years that nobody had figured out, but
anyway. When I went in a couple months post-op to get the stents removed, I
was naturally a little bit apprehensive, and of course the doc didn't
reassure me when he said there would be a "momentary twinge" when he
removed each one. Oh yeah? It freakin' HURT! And it wasn't momentary
either. I felt it for the rest of the afternoon. I definitely didn't want
to see HIM again!

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:20 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>I am very sorry for your ongoing pain. May it soon subside, and may you
> never have to put up with that again.<<<
>
> James/Christopher:  Oh, I won't.  TRUST ME.  Will I never have the
> procedure again?  Didn't say that.  I had a flexible cytoscopy.  A rigid
> cytoscopy generally always requires a general due to the extreme pain
> during the procedure.  Rigidity or no rigidity, if it happens again, I'll
> be out like a light.  Even if the insurance won't pay for it.  I will.  As
> Doctor Johnson would say, "And that's an end on't."
>
> Aquamarine pee.  Man am I glad they impressed that fact on me before I
> left.  I just did some glorious artwork in the toilet a bit ago.
>