Well... surprise, surprise. Urine Collection isn't as much fun as we all imagined it would be.
I've been pee-anxious all day.
Last night I taped a note to my toilet seat lid, just in case I somehow forgot about the collection going on today.
This morning I woke up at the ungodly hour of 7am and hurried into the bathroom to officially begin my collection. As you can see in the above photo, I made sure to mark the time, according to my cell phone clock (which I imagine to be the most reliable of all the clocks I have).
I never made it over to the outpatient office to pick up an "official" urine jug and "hat"... and had to settle for a water container and a plastic cup instead.
At some point during the morning, I realized that I had to go #2... and then I panicked because when I go #2... I also generally go #1 simultaneously. So I had to be very careful to go #1 FIRST... into my little cup. And THEN go #2... NOT into my little cup.
This is hard work, folks.
Around noon, I was peering into the jug that housed my growing collection of urine and to my horror noticed that there were two CAT HAIRS in the pee!!! I am pretty sure that I am not urinating cat hair, so it must have somehow floated through the air into the cup I'd been using to catch my pee. I couldn't stand the thought of some lab tech finding cat hairs in my pee so I carefully fished them out. Ewwww... (Sorry, no picture.)
A need for groceries forced me out of the house around 3pm and on the way home I was lured in by the McDonald's drive-thru. Somehow... I ended up with this:
Okay... so drinking a SUPER SIZE Dr. Pepper on the day that I am doing my urine collection probably isn't the best idea. I'm hoping to limit my urine collection to just one container, as I can't stand the thought of lugging multiple containers of pee into the doctors office tomorrow morning. Also, my pee is already so super-concentrated that it almost comes out of me in sugar-cube form (just kidding... don't worry).
The other bad thing about keeping a jug of urine around the house is that it makes me feel like I live in a nursing home or a hospital. That is all.
Unless something drastic happens... like I accidentally spill my urine collection all over the place or something... I probably won't post again until tomorrow which is the big test day. HOORAY FOR EKG'S and CHEST X-RAYS and OTHER STUFF!!!!
