Another treatment day

 

Regular readers will recall that a month or so back, I underwent yet another surgical procedure for my kidney problems.  It's time to take out the stent and check on progress, so this morning I'm off to DFW to let the doctors and nurses do their thing.

I'm not sure what they propose to do to get the stent out.  I'm used to cords being tied to the darn thing, so it can be pulled out, slowly and (preferably) gently.  (It's not fun!)  However, this time there were no cords in sight.  Apparently this is a new variety of stent that's supposed to be pulled out "electromagnetically".  It seems the nice nurse (or doctor) waves a magnet in the general vicinity of one's nether regions, which somehow magically lines up the stent with the necessary tubes and pulls it out of the body.  I'm a little leery of having anything waved around there, let alone electromagnetism, but I'm assured it's the latest and greatest thing.  Watch this space for details!

If all looks good, I'll be scheduled for another CT scan early in the New Year.  If that shows clear, all well and good:  if not, further procedures will be necessary.  After all this time, and four procedures in the space of a year, I might just tell them to take out the darn kidney and be done with it.  This wears you down, I'm here to tell you!

Anyway, I'll be grateful, as usual, for prayers for traveling safety, there and back, and for guidance for the nice medical team.  I'm not sure how one prays for electromagnetic efficacy, particularly in that region of the body:  but if you can figure that one out, let us know in Comments!

Peter