I went in to see a urologist about my kidney thang. They did a CT scan on my abdomen and nothing turned up. A *possible* 2mm stone in the ureter just outside my bladder, but it was really just a shadowy thing that could have been an artifact of the scan.

They did find a partial hernia near my belly button, which explains my poochiness there. "There is central protrusion of the interabdominal contents in the region of the umbilicus consistent with a small partial hernia in this region." That's a fancy way of saying that my muscles are pulled apart and letting my guts poke through. Lovely. Not sure what I'm supposed to do about that. Maybe my mummy tummy exercises could repair it. If I ever did them, that is.

Ah, motherhood...it does a body good. NOT. Good thing these kids are cute.

Last night I took my last Levaquin (super-antibiotic). Next step is taking another urine sample to see if all the bacteria are gone, and if not, culturing them to see what they are.

Who the hell are you, and what are you doing in my pee? Begone, ye nasty beasties!

In other disease-ridden news, we have West Nile Virus in our neighborhood. Dead birds all over. Well, not all over, but we had three little dead birds in our yard, and our neighbor found a dead crow in his driveway. I think Dan has it, he has fever, chills, body aches. No runny nose or anything.

Julian had a high fever last week that just went away all of a sudden, plus an intermittent rash.

I've had headaches and joint pain, but I think that's just a result of too much computer time in an ergonomically horrible seating situation, plus wearing, lifting, and holding a giant sandbag of a baby all day long. I desperately need a massage and a chiropractic adjustment.

Anyway, things could be much worse. If we have to have an epidemic of something then West Nile is the way to go. Sixty percent of people will have zero symptoms at all. I'll take that over even the common cold or flu, although that's going around as well. The garlic oil capsules are being consumed fast and furious around here lately.