it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…
so i have these two kidneys…
the one on my right is well-placed…does its job well…
the one on my left…a little less so…
the ct scan said it’s a little wonky up in there…that it never truly “settled” well when i was somersaulting in utero…
and that now…well…it has a stone.
so i found myself faced with 3 choices…
- i could pass it…i could…a 50% chance with this 5mm stone…
- i could take the urologist up on her kind offer to “pulverize” it for me…
for a small (ahem) fee… - or i could attempt to dissolve it on my own…the “old school” way…by drinking a cocktail of raw apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and olive oil…
i settled on starting with choice #3…how bad could it be?
and one day…following a “recipe”…i started drinking 1 tablespoon of each every hour…
bad…bad…bad!!!
7 cocktails into that day…the only place i most wanted to be…was laid out on the floor in front of that gloriously pink toilet…
so, so bad…
my honey informed me…whispered into me all prostrate shaky nauseous…
that maybe…just maybe…i might have a little of the “all or nothing” in me…
that the way he saw it…i might still be able to dissolve my stone…without the feeling poisoned and having to live on the bathroom floor part…
so…some days have come and gone…the memory of that one somewhat dimmed…
and i think i’m ready to give it another go…
but…per my honey’s encouragement…i’m concentrating on just the lemon and the oil…
just twice a day…
we’ll see how this goes…
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