howie’s halfpipe

Today was the first of my two tests to see what the hell is wrong with my bladder / kidneys.

Today was the IVP which was at Concord hospital and took about an hour. It was really quite a breeze. I just laid on a table for an hour while an x-ray machine took lots of photos.
The x-ray lady was crazy she was always singing and seemed to be plotting many pranks against her collegues.
After a few x-rays she called in a nurse to put in of those things into my arm, not a needle but like a little plastic thing that the needle will eventually plug in to. Anyway the nurse was crazy, she was very rushed and managed to make me bleed quite a lot. So much so that they had to get me a new blanket casue she had got so much blood on my original blanket. All just from trying to jab a little plastic thing into my arm.

Eventually a doctor came and then injected some clear stuff into the thign in my arm.

Then more x-rays, a wee then some more x-rays and that was that.

The clear stuff they injected was some kind of dye that is picked up on x-rays all a bit fun.

But no pain and best of all I was able to stay in my boxers and shirt, no nudie for hoiwe.

The next test it a nudie one. grrrrr