October-November
Shelly has shown the pictures to colleagues at Exeter, but has urgent family issues to deal with. So I'll be waiting a while.

October
Have had a quick look at the reports and pictures with Shelly, and she intends to take them to her work colleagues for further views. Thence we will look at the slides.

September 19th
Spoke to Shelly and will call her when I get the piccies.

September 17th
Spoke to Laura and she said the loan of the slides is to avoid them lending me the microscope etc.

September 16th
Yesterday I paid to have pictures taken of the dodgy cells in my June tests.

The option will be to:

• Take more pictures of the slides: Must check my compact flash cards are viable.
• Take the slides to Exeter for further analysis.
• Do another cytology test. Have to chase up the staining procedure.

OK! November wasn't the best month, nothing serious but nothing good. The twinges have returned which is a worry and th overall test for haem in the pee were not as good as hoped for. So a dissapointing period.

16th November: Despite still feeling twingie, going to town yesterday and eating crap and coppicing and sawing wood today the results are clear in terms of haem but there were casts in the pee.

15th November: Nope! Things are a bit twingie lately and there are markers to show for it. So November hasn't been as good as was expected.

9th November: A couple of days back at the ranch and things are settling down to zero marker. So apples may be better than you think, except for the teeth. So back to coppicing, wood cutting, leave collecting and compost building.

7th November: I've just spent a couple of nights with a friend as she wanted company going to the local authority and there was plumbing being carried out whilst she was at work. The main problem is that I got stressed out a couple of times, laughably over computer programming/application issues which brought on twinges and subsequent blood in the pee. I'm hoping that a week on the land and it will go away. The question that arises is how does stress cause this. My thinking is that certain hormones or chemicals are produced which are an irritant to a sensitive or damaged system.
Nearly every time this occurs it is a slight burning sensation to the left of the lower abdomen, which I associate with the left kidney to bladder ureter.

3rd November: Yeap! it's not the 5th yet but BANG! goes my hope for this month to be the first with no blood in the pee.
However I was expecting it a bit as I felt I strained myself cutting wood and pulling up small trees yesterday. Could feel a twinge? Had I done a test yesterday the results may have been more alarming. As it is there was only a small dot showing as non-haemolysis marker, so I may do another test later just to confirm. Its also worth noting that it was the first early morning pee after eating a fair bit more yesterday including some beans (Adzuki and Mung)

Key to data from Uritest Sticks

Blood and Leukocytes Cells/µL

• H = Haemolysis, NH = Non Haemolysis,
• Z = zero; < = less than, > = more than
• Haemolysis: ± = 10, + = 25, ++ = 80, +++ = 200
• Non-haemolysis: * = 10, ** = 50
• Leukocytes: ± = 15, + = 70, ++ = 125, +++ = 500
• D = See Diary, I = Interpolated, ? = Questionable,