I’m at the doctor for a small inconvenience as the doctor looks at me with a happy smile.. My eye caught something interesting in your file, I hear her say.. I look at her and think oh dear… you don’t want to hear these things at the doctor, the dentist or the garage. It’s either bad news, or it will cost you! With an even bigger smile she says… ‘You have nephrosclerosis !” Well.. that’s old news, I won’t be dying of that today..
“I wanted to ask you something ” she says. I hope she’s not going to ask me to donate my healthy kidney, I think smiling. “I’m still studying and I would like to make a sonogram of your kidneys. ” That’s something entirely different.. My kidney on the doctor catwalk.. Well for King, Country and Science.. I say Yes! .. Ladies and Gentlemen.. Miss Kidney!
Nephrosclerosisn is what happens if one or both kidney haven’t been functioning for a long time and the start to shrink and might even famish. If it’s just one kidney, the other one takes over the complete task and you can live to be a 100. Lucky for me that’s the case.
After my kidneys were on the sonogram, I find myself in a small room with a young lady smiling at me. An elderly looking medical assistant enters and asks “Is it ok if she takes some blood samples from you?”
I realize that the smiling lady is a student and it could take more than one try to get the needle in my arm.. But he.. I’m working for science today.. Go on then.. The student seems to know what she’s doing and with just one try she takes my life juice into one tube… two tubes… As I here the medical assistant say.. Uhm.. dearie.. how many tubes were you planning on taking? The student quickly stops and puts a band aid on my arm.
So that was my act of Kindness for Science, I hope the doctor doesn’t find any more interesting facts in my file 🙂
