Yesterday I went for a run. I am trying to get in shape for soccer, and I went for about five to six miles. I usually run half about that distance, but I was going slower than I usually do. I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before, but I was feeling fine, until the end of the run. I felt like I had to go to the bathroom which was a little odd because I had been running for about five miles and probably was dehydrated. My right foot also lost feeling, but I think that was just a coincidence.

I had to go pretty badly, so I went straight to the bathroom. To my surprise something unexpected came out: Blood. I know, “gross”. As you can imagine this freaked me out. At this point I had no pain, so when the nurse on the phone started asking questions I made it seem like it was not too serious. Shortly after that the pain arrived. My dad was about to take me to the emergency room when the doctor called back. I answered his questions and he made it seem like I should be more scared than I actually was, but told me that I could wait until tomorrow to visit a doctor as long as the pain didn’t get any worse. I was pretty happy about this because I had no desire to sit in the emergency room for hours. That night I continued to urinate blood, but the pain went down so I was able to sleep fairly easily.

This morning I visited the doctor. After the examination the doctor talked to me for awhile. The first thing he said was usually when this sort of thing happens to older people it usually quite serious, but with younger people the diagnosis is most times not as bad. Then he went on to tell me that he didn’t think I had cancer or a tumor in my kidneys. I hadn’t done any research into my symptoms so this was not very comforting. Then he sent me straight to the hospital to do some more tests “STAT”. There I got another urine test and a blood test. I had never had a blood test before, and I have never given blood. I expected it to be like an IV which I hated, but it was not bad at all. I also found out that I am O positive blood type, which means I should probably be donating blood since that blood type is a universal donor. I go for an ultrasound later today. Wish me luck.

posted by kbrower at 10:32 am & filed under Uncategorized |