Every time.  This little strainer thingie.  Just how many hands do they think I have?  And not that my weak bladder gives me much help.  It wants to just let go when it gets in the vicinity of a toilet.  much less wait for the disrobing, squatting, and straining.  This is one process that needs some serious design re-engineering.  

I have had a repeat of Wednesday post hospital discharge, probably only because I was stupid and thought I would wait to take meds until I “needed” them.  This is one crazy condition - the pain comes on suddenly, but it can be hours or days between attacks.  So either you just drug yourself up “just in case” and are blotto and nonfunctional and banned from driving, or you claim your functionality for awhile until the pain kicks you again, and then you writhe for awhile, until the meds take effect.  I had entertained illusions or delusions that I would return to campus either on Thursday or Friday.  Thursday was out, as i didn’t want to subject the same group of students to another episode of drama.  It turns out to have been a wise decision.  Thursday was not a good day.  FRiday might have been possible if the class had been later in the day.  I had forgotten to inoculate myself with my usual doses of caffiene WEd or Thurs.  Who needs caffeine when you have Dilaudid and Vicodin? This AM I woke up with a banger of a caffeine withdrawal headache.  And since I have been struggling with motivational issues, i thought ” what the heck” just scratch off the whole day.   Perhaps I am trying on the role of the flaky slacker the Dean makes me out to be, which has never been true.  Perhaps I am finally looking beyond the kneehigh horizon of DTCC.  

I am peeing in this little cup with a sieve in the bottom.  Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. and perhaps many tomorrows to come.  I have recovered a little crumblet of something, but I find it hard to believe that this is a kidney stone.  ”Stone” signifies something much more substantial.  And I do confess, there has been more than a bit of urinary output that has not passed through the strainer.  And NO WAY is this gadget coming to work with me.