Each family, as beautiful as it is, has its specific health problems. Ours is the kidneys. My great-grandfather and my grandfather had kidney problems, my dad has kidney problems, me, my future children and theirs will in all likelihood, kidney problems. A centuries-old tradition, a legacy, a legacy, a line of renal failure!
The problem is that during all these years we have ignored that we were the proud carriers of this genetic defect. We thought, according to times of common cancer, diabetes, took heart, lepers and others. Because in fact, none of us really died from his kidney problems ... my grandfather came close but ultimately, there was always something else to take us and steal the title to kidney failure.
However, science is never short of surprises and imagination has eradicated leprosy, asked pacemaker controlled diabetes and prolonged cancer so much that my father was untouched by all these misfortunes.
So without express during a routine check that he discovered an alarming rate of protein in the urine.
We sent him to the nephrologist-the-kidney specialist and he said something like this:
"The kidneys are two in number and are the body's filter. They send urine everything you do not need and you would have consumed too much potassium, sodium, vitamins and mixed waste.
These are vital organs, without them you'd be dead already.
They are also very powerful organ, you know, Sir, that many people have only one functioning kidney and will not notice because it never works to slap all the work.
A problem like yours is hereditary. You understand now that many symptoms of illness of your father which is attributed to his heart and his age are actually undiagnosed kidney problems. It's the same for your grandfather, your great-grandfather and his father before him.
In your case specifically, you're at 41% capacity ... we only consider or kidney transplant or dialysis before you fall below 20%.
Since we do not really know how to cure this problem, you eat a few randomly chosen pills in our drugstore. "My father
did this a few years but its ability kidney continued to fall. During another visit, his nephrologist told him about a recent discovery:
"It appears that salmon oil just stop the decline of renal capacity. So eat it in huge quantity, 12 capsules per day to be exact, until you do the burping salmon, salmon farts and your breath feels salmon. We'll see what it gives ... and buy gum. "
few months later, they found that much fun with disbelief the effectiveness of treatment: 33% of renal capacity, stable.
"Sir, I am very happy to announce that you may be dying of something else! "
This morning I went to the CLSC for blood and urine sample on the recommendation of my doctor. With my family history, it is better to take precautions. If necessary, she will send me to a nephrologist, "she said.
The pressure is strong. A family tradition more centuries old. And newly discovered, to boot. Should I commit, then give it historic importance it deserves and forget this whole nephrologist and die of a disease more conventional?
[The sad news is that I wrote this long ago and my father is currently on dialysis and awaiting a transplant. The good news is that not only that it improves quality of life but it keeps it alive!]
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