Well I just went to the urologist.

I was nurvous and rightly so i would say, i have never been so violated in my life.

I wont go into details but listen to this sentance from the urologist lady as i was laying half naked on her bed thing.

“Ok now roll onto your side and bring you knee’s up to your chest”

I tell you what, i hope i never run in to this lady in a supermarket.

As a side note for those of you who are actually wondering what the urologiost said in terms of my infections. I need to go and get an IVP and also cystoscopy . both of these procedures will be carried out at concord hospital sometime in the next 3 – 4 weeks. I have a perscription for more antibiotics in case the infection flares up while i’m at uluru in a week or so.

Well as you may know on wednesday i’m off to a urologist who will hopefuly be able to work out whats wrong with my bladder and kidneys.

Today i found out its a Woman,

I have to drop my pants for some woman i’ve never met before…….Ih dear i’m scared.

“Mr Howie please drop, turn and cough!”

Well guess who should make an appearance at 3 am this morning.

None other than howies trusty bladder infection.

It’s back, bigger and better than ever. Infact not a lot of sleeping occurred last night as I was releasing my bladder about every 45 minutes, with that pain filled stinging feeling. But to make it more exciting this time the release was followed by a very painful appearance of that red stuff we like to call blood.

All in all it was a bad night, a painful night and a long night.

This morning it was back to the doctor, he tested my wee and confirmed the infection was back. Gave some more antibiotics and referred me to a urologist.

He told me to call the urologist and make an appointment and if I couldn’t get one in the next two weeks to call my doctors secretary and she will use her connections to get me in sooner.

Well I called and the first available appointment they have is in June. So I called my doctor back and his secretary tried her connections.
She managed to get me one on the 12th of April.
Which still isn’t within the next two weeks and is also 4 days before I’m going away to uluru for 2 weeks. And I don’t really want to go to uluru with the threat of another infection popping up at the drop of a hat. And what if he wasn’t to do more test but then I’m away.

So I called the secretary back and she talked to my doctor and they found out that there is a urology conference on in the next week or so in Sydney so all urology places are pretty booked up.

Well now I have an appointment with a urologist on the 5th of April. Thank you for trying so hard Mrs. Secretary lady.

And that my friends is that.

Oh and I threw up this morning aswell.

Have a nice day

another day, another visit to the doctor.
My bladder infection has come back, the antibiots had kicked it it was gone then a week later, BANG there it is again.
So more peeing into a cup today, Doctor says its defintly back and thats not great. Going for an Ultrasound on wednesday morning.

stupid damn broken body.

last ngiht i woke up about once every hour with sharp pains and stinging, then it was off to the tiolet to release my bladder.

Well it has almost been six weeks of being sick and slowly but gradually i was improving.
That was, until yesterday!
New pains and uncomfortableness topped with a really sore back.
A restless night and a few heat packs then it was off to the doctor again this morning. My doctor is getting very used to me visiting him, if i didnt have to pay him $45 every time we hung out i could develope a good friendship with him.

Anyway the verdict is i have a bladder infection, which i can tell you is not very pleasant and quite painful.
So he gave me some antibiotis and sent a sample off the the lab for more testing.

I was quite scared about going to him becasue of the location of the pain and the effects of the pain i was scared that this visit to the doctor could be quite confronting for me. That he was going to tell me to drop the pants and turn and cough.
But luckily all i had to do was go into the toilet and pee into a jar.

and that is that, if its just a normal bladder infection is should be cleared in a day or 2 thanks to the tablets but i need to go back on friday for the results of the full test he is doing.
And my back he reckons is just some muscular thing, panadol and heat packs.

yay

I’m now 60kg

I went to hospital today under the direction of several family members.

THe think myabe my doctor isnt doing all he could be doing to make me better especially seeing as today makes it 3 weeks i have been sick for. So off to hospital i went. jenny took me being the supportive fiance that she is.

waited around for a bit, then a doctor who looked about 8 years old came and got me and took me to a bed to ly down. he poked and prodded my bowels and found the spot that hurts.
then a lovely nurse came and took my pulse and heart rate and stufff and she also made me a pillow out of a blanket wrapped in a sheet becasue they had run out of pillows.

the hospital doctor rang the pathology place who took my blood and poo yesterday to try and get results, he got my blood tests back and all my blood stuff is fine and dandy they couldnt find anything wrong. still waiting on stool sample results though. he sent me home saying “he had no idea what it is and that he couldnt do anythig” so its back to my normal doc on friday with poo sample results and hopefuly a remedy.

and that was my day

I know people are sick of hearing about my health, but some people might want an update.
i was starting to think i was getting better until last night. i spent the entire night in pain witrh many trips to the bathroom. I even for the first time in my life threw up with blood in it.
So a night of no sleep and much dicomfort directed me to a doctor visit this morning. doc thinks its a reaction to the tablets i’m on.

seems so stupid to me, you take tablest to stop you having gastro problems and the tablets give you the same problem if not worse.

anyway have ti sit it out for 2 days until tablets are finnished but i have anti nausia tablets to help me aswell. then if not better on monday having a full blood test and stool test.

so there you go.
time to go and lay down and feel sorry for myself

well about to start a course of new tablets. have to take three a day for a week then if i’m still sick after that i have to go back to the doctor and he’ll have to do tests and stuff.

its starting to get quite tedious, i would like to be better. oh how much i want to crack open a 600ml coke again and chow down on some food in the foodcourt or even just some other form of food that isnt plain bread or boiled rice.

well today was day 8 of this bout of bowel malfunction.
I think i may be on the mend, today my bowels feel like someone has hit me in the gut and its just the feeling of bruising,. whihc doesnt sound all that much like improvment but it is, before it felt like it was constantly bubbling away all day and night and at the same time like there was something pulling and tuggin on my intestines. so i’m quite content with the bruised feeling. so much so that i have eaten 5 pieces of plain toast today, my biggest day of eating since all this began.

and only 1 explosion this morning,

you poor people having to read about my malfunctioning body. maybe i can blog something interesting one day again.

day 7 of being sick.
well after spending the whole night awake due to an uncomfortable feeling in my bowels i got up about 9, threw up, then went to the doc. After the doc i came home, threw up and have spent the rest of the day laying down trying to get some sleep. i’m still waiting for that sleep……………….

i think its time to give up on shut eye and go get me some flat lemonade.

I’m feeling quite a lot better tonight.
I havent had any trips to the toilet today for the unformed express.
And i have eaten some rice, i piece of dry toast and 2 cruckits.

I still have this slight pain / doscomfort in my bowel but thats probably normal.

so tomorrow its back to work for me.

well doc says i have gastroentiritis, which is nothing new to me, casued by either food poisioning ot a virus.
What is does is stips the coating on the inside of your bowels, so if you eat stuff and drink stuff it cant be absorbed properly and everything just shoots through. SO even drinking water just goes straight through. so i have to drink sips every 5 – 10 minutes sintead of just drinking a glass of water. that way with little sips there is more chance it will get absorbed into my body.

not a whole lot of fun, no eating until tomorrow and only if i feel up to it and if i do feel up to it just dry toast or boiled rice.

and if its still going by monday then there is some tablests to take that should flush out any nasties.

but for now its just rest and water and lemonade and stuff. he said i can have coke but to ater it down a bit. I dont think i’ll do watered down coke i’ll just have water and maybe someone nice can bring me some lemonade.

and that is the verdice. i’m so sleepy.
I gues casue of ibs all this stuff is a bot more likely and severe.

another day.
woke up feeling better than i did yesterday, but then as the day prgressed i found my self on the toilet a lot.
I’m going to the doctor at 3:30 hopefuly he can fix me casue i’m so tired and weak. my stupid body.

what a day.

You see I have been a bit clogged the past few days and the pain was beginning to build up. This morning I got up at 7:02 so that I could catch a train and go see jenny at her house to surprise her for her birthday. But as I awoke there was a quite strong pain in my bowels. I tried to relieve the pain but with no luck. I figured maybe its because I haven’t been taking enough metamucal, s I had a bigger dose today and I think that may have been the downfall of my day.
I made it to jennys house still in pain, I tried there to release some of the pressure but no luck. Then when we got to work I gave it one last try, I pushed like there was no tomorrow, eventually it paid off I got out quite a bit then went back to my desk.
It was then it all began, I had new pains like was going to be sick kind of pains so back ot the bathroom about 3 times I went, this time the effects were explosive, from one end of the scale to the other in less than one hour. And that happened a few times throughout the day as well as feeling quite ill. So a good day all round. Now I have a headache and I’m damn tired so its off to bed soon as I have a 5:30am wake up tomorrow.

Ah the joys of my body.

Two results fomr my two medical experiences today.

The first is my experiment of covering up my right eye to see how long I can last just using my dodgy left eye.
The result: 40mins
After 40 mins my head was hurting a lot, I had no peripheral vision, I couldn’t read anything up close or far away and my balance and depth perception was all off so I ran into a lot of stuff walking to work.

The second was I went to the gastroenterologist today and here is the low down

I have to get a camera up my bum and a camera down my throat, all on the same day. And also a blood test this week and maybe a CT scan.

Camera procedures will be in late April early may probably.

So filming can begin on “passage of discovery”, what started out being a one camera shoot has turned into a 2 camera shoot after today’s production meeting.

And that my friends is that!

Today at 3pm i have the first ever production meeting with my camera man for “passage of discovery”. I have to take in my story boards (Ultrasound images of my gut). And hopefuly we can set a date to begin filming.

how fun.

I’m gonna get a camera up my bum

I think my eyes are about to fall out of my head.
The last couple of weeks they have been so sore, and it wont seem to go away. I think its partly due to over tiredness but also just due to the dodgyness that is my eyes.

I was reading through the last visal assesment i had from the Royal Blind Society. reading through it i noticed that if my left eye is covered up my visial accuity doeswnt change at all. I know i dont really use my left eye all that much but i thought it does do a bit.
If you are reading this and donlt know me, i have dodgy eyes.

Anyway i thought it a perfect time to do some experiemnts on my eyes and brain. i mean they are dodgy eyes anyway so what more damage can i do.

So here is my experiemt to be carried out this tuesday.

I am going to cover my right eye for an entire day and just use my left eye to function. Its gonna be tough i reckon cause my left eye isnt all that helpful. I think my brain will explode by midday.

anyway i’ll blog the progress.