Miscellaneous notes now that things are up again.

[kiya]

First of all: lstone, you must come visit and play jikharra's new game. Ninja Bowl. Be a ninja and compete in ninjitude. I'd be more coherent on the subject except I'm really, really, really, really tired right now. Good game. Much fun. Thingy.

Second of all: Insecurity sucks slugs.

Third of all: I am confirmed to have kidneys. Fascinating, testable kidneys, because they're entirely normal except for that one thing. I do not have lupus. Nor do I have other stuff. And the ultrasound is also normal.

Fourth of all: I got nowhere near enough sleep. I become one with the couch.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeee!

i am glad you do not have lupus. lupus sucks slugs through a straw. it is no good at all.

however, i am sad that you do not seem to have a diagnosis yet. diagnoses are helpful.

[kiya]

I am also glad that I do not have lupus. Or any of the other things he tested me for, which he did not name or I do not remember, but which, I gather, were plural.

My personal suspicion is that the actual issue is "My kidneys are equivalently out of normal range in function as the rest of my organs". However, the nephrologist wants more tests, and for me to be careful about painkillers. (Which isn't so bad, as I decided a while back that I wanted to go the stoic route for pain by preference rather than the drug one, as if I took drugs every time something hurt I'd be drugged all the damn time.)

So I get regular blood and urine tests for a while to see if the weirdness is stable at its current weirdnesslevel, and see the nephrologist again in a year. And if it's stable with three to four month testing, we go to six month testing cycles. And presumably if it's still stable, just wind up having this as part of my usual yearly checkup for the indefinite future.

If the weirdness becomes significantly more weird, I get a biopsy.

Personally, I'm hoping for "I have a wonky soma." Because I already knew I had that.

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

Ninja-Bowl?

Nomgo want to know more!

[mindways]

Not on an unsecured post - I might want to publish this game at some point, and would rather not risk having it ripped off before that point comes...

Glad I came up with an intriguing name, though. :-)

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

Oh, I understand that. After all, I don't talk about my Starfire design work anywhere but the Design Group mailing list.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

Hey -- this has been bugging me for a while, and now I have you at my mercy and it's vaguely topical:

Is this guy you, or is that just a freak coincidence?

[kiya]

I gave lstone a brief run-down of it when he queried my post on Overland. You have at least one customer. ;)

[jenett]

Having kidneys is good. Not having nasty chronic things that can be identified is also good.

There is something reassuring about the testability part. I admit I was rather oddly pleased to see that there is, in fact, stuff on the inside of Jay's head when he had the MRI last summer.

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

:: snigger ::

[kiya]

I'm still pleased by the fact that as a result of all this I got to look at my left kidney, which is, indeed, kidney-shaped.