Initially, having undergone all ’standard’ non-invasive procedures, bladder cancer was not be ruled out as I did not submit to a cystoscopy examination.

My efforts since have largely been on discovering any bladder anomalies and minimising the symptoms. A cytology examination that discovered a small group of epithelial cells in a urine test is the now the focal point. The results were described as highly suspicious of ‘Transitional Cell Carcinoma’

April 18th Working lots, carrying too much, still trying to avoid stress Feel twinges fairly often so did a stick test. No haem and pH of 6
April 24th As above with More twinges. pH 6.5
June 17th Been feeling fine, but did a stick test anyway. No change from last test.
July 24th With fever ~ dehydrated a bit so did a stick test. No haem marker, but bilirubin? and nitrites were showing up.

Half monthly averages with a ‘Power’trend line.

Half monthly averages shown as square root of above to indicate area that could be the source of blood.with a ‘Exponential’trend line.

23rd May
Been feeling a bit twingie lately and there’s a bit of a corresponding haem output. However I have just started consuming omega-3 lipids via linseed oil and I saw a note on it facilitating blood in the urine - I think due to blood thinning. Will write an entry on this issue asa.

14th May
Forgot to test early on 13th. Didn’t drink much and did lots of physical labour. Getting one spot wasn’t a big deal, but I thought I test again so slept for a while, but when I awoke is was 14th. The next test was zero but I decided that the earlier score had to stand at 0.4

12th May
Again a small smudge that wasn’t repeated on a second test. The issue seems to be to do or not to do an early test.

9th May
I noticed a small spot today, that I had to confirm with a magnifying glass. I scored it as 0.4 as it seems at least two clear dots would represent 1 cell per µLt. A second test today seemed to show nothing but under a magnifying glass there was a small spot so I reduced the score to 0.2.

30th April
I am a bit concerned as I had a bit of color on the marker last night at about 4am. I had been feeling as but off and today I’m not so cool. However another haem test about 5pm seems ok.

28th April
I’ve had some small twinges but it hasn’t transformed to any significant haematuria. There was a single very light dot this morning and as I am likely to test again as a consequence the record will show zero unless the second test shows a mark.

19th April
Well surprisingly the tests have been rather negative for a few weeks, however after a few days of alcohol and a late night, my early morning pee did have a some marker (1 max). This led me to test twice more and the results were zero, which iused as the figure for today’s plot.

10th April
I have used up the final sticks that had Leukocytes markers, which indicated ‘normal’ readings. The new sticks have Bilirubin and Urobilinogen.

7th April Well things are not getting worse. This first week has been OK. I have slight twinges now and then and the blood tests are sometimes very slightly questionable, but not enough to mark up.

I have started daily testing again to monitor this spring’s increase relative to autumn 2008.

I’m also drinking more and drinking more of the ‘cleavers’ etc.

Well the fist week of February is a continuation of the January regression and although nothing serious may be in the offing it isn’t a good sign. I’m not keen on a daily or more frequent check to monitor the change.

I am going to check less regularly and create a graph only of the results. There will be no more blUsh daily record.

The new graph will start Jan 1st, leaving the old 2008 one on a good note. The graph will be plotted daily but some of the element will just be interpolated between actual readings.

End of FebI haven’t done any haem stick-tests for 10 days or so as I was away and didn’t take them with me. However on my return the results have been zero, much to my delight. My records for this period contain a single 1/µg a) to give the graph some substance and b) as i can’t believe it was that good all the time I was away.

January 22th OK another very small spot. Maybe this is to be the case when I have to bucket out the bot and carry some hefty wood?

January 19th Sure there was a very small spot but the second test was fine. I had a lot of physical work yesterday emptying the boat by the bucket, so I’m not surprised yet disappointed. The odd spot is ‘common’ after strenuous work
January 11th/12 Stayed the night at Michal’s anticipating rain and wanting to get to court relatively dry. But Lower abdomen, bladder area feeling hot again.:? Yeap! damn it. A few spots this evening. Well as least I know that the feeling does precede the bleeding : so what is happening????
January 6th : Midday Lower abdomen, bladder area feeling hot.
January 1st 2009 Bummer of a start. Although it is a low reading a haem count is not good in any event: but at the start of a new year. However a new year it is not really, and it can’t always get better, well so it seems. So is there stress involved:- the walking, the standing in the cold, Jay and here environment, the general disturbance of a few days or the last week, Rowena and Piero coming to visit today or burning plastic or smoke from the fire last night. Who knows, but it does make me want to be more careful. Emotional stress brought upon by being in more careless environments would seem to be the only acceptable excuse.

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,