Yet another hospital waiting room!

This one had big windows and I wanted to sit near them but couldn’t! I hoped the light would counteract the stuffy overheated air feeling.

I was supposed to be seeing the kidney consultant but I was palmed off either way his registrar. I hadn’t yet met a kidney consultant in spite of three separate whole days at the hospital. He had phoned me about this appointment and said he would see me today. I just don’t trust doctors. The registrar asked him to come in and surely me when I told her how I felt. He did, but he patronised be. Revenge jays his hand on the back of my hand in a ‘comforting’ gesture but I didn’t like it and don’t feel he should be doing it. His registrar was in the room and I wondered if I should ask her about it when he left., But I decided it might antagonise him. They were going to give me a blood test but I said I was due one at my GP surgery this Thursday and, having them weekly, I didn’t want any extra holes in my arm! So the blood test was skipped for today.;

He said I need to have a biopsy. It seems it won’t be painful but when it’s done I have to lie flat, face down, for SIX HOURS!!!!! He said the biopsy was to find out what’s going on in my kidneys. I’ve googled the likely reasons for this biopsy and it seems like it’s looking for cancer. I think the registrar or the consultant should have been honest enough to tell me that. They see kidney patients every day but I think they forget that for many patients it’s the FIRST TIME they’ve had kidney problems and have been given very little information.