Let the blog see the rabbit...

I was booked in to have a biopsy on Monday using the Renal Outpatients Dept's new day procedure scheme, but because of the creatinine rise, they wanted to do one sooner. So on Friday morning, I was biopsied. Fortunately, this time, the doctor was far better at it than the one that performed the biopsy in August, and although having large needles stuck into you to remove samples of your organs is never a pleasant experience, it was a vast improvement. He took an extra sample to send to a university in Canada, who are researching a method for identifying rejection from a blood test rather than a biopsy. Despite this extra sample, he still only needed a total of four goes as opposed to the eight or whatever it was in August.

Following the biopsy, I had to lie still for six hours to wait for the bleeding to stop. The results came back at around 5pm, showing what the doctor descriped as a "good amount of rejection". When I asked him to qualify "good", he said "good as in 'a good car crash'"...

I had been pointing out at regular intervals that it was my sister's wedding the following day, and the doctors agreed that there was no reason for me to miss the wedding. However, following the biopsy result, they wanted me to complete the course of methyl pred. I had intended to go home on Friday evening, but they wanted me back first thing on Saturday morning for the third dose, so I had the second dose on Friday, stayed in and had the third dose before being collected by my dad and taken to my sister's in Maidstone to get changed for the wedding.