30th April 2009

Was back up the hospital again yesterday (Wednesday) to have an ultra sound on my kidneys. The great news it that despite the blood test showing damage, the kidneys appear to have no visable damage. So the damage so far is in the working of the kidneys. Culprit? High blood pressure and the diabetes.

Well get this. Having decided that I'm not going to tell everyone about my forthcoming surgery, the nurse doing the ultra sound kept insisting that she has seen me before. I said that was possible and that she looked familiar to, and that I had been to this department before, so maybe that's where she'd seen me before. Twice she referred to the WLS, without me mentioning it. Of course all my details are in front of her on the computer screen, silly me. She asked wheather I was going to go ahead with the surgery, I told her yes, that i was just waiting on my date. Then she spat out, "do you go to tai chi at camberwell" ."Yes I replied" "oh, so do I she said", OMG, I thought. That's where she had seen be before, were in the same class. I then had to tell her that I had not planned on telling people, so basically indecated - confidentiality. I explained that I don't intend on telling the instructor either. She said "you should tell him your having surgery though". I explained that I had already been thinking about that, and will probably tell him something, I deal with that when the time comes.

Trust me, I'm glad I made that clear. Just from the expression on her face I could just see/imagine her saying -" Oh the wls is working really well, you've lost a lot a weight" with an audience of course. Well I've given her a gagging order. lol

Lets see.