
But how do you know this Jacqui, you might ask. Well the obvious answer is that I've been peeing in to a calibrated plastic 'hat' for the last 13 hours. Obvious right? The deal is that between my kidney stones and the fact that I've been passing a lot of protein for the last couple of months, my doctors have decided to punish me with their own version of water torture. In this case it's pee torture. I must place a plastic 'hat' under the toilet seat every time I pee and then carefully, and this is important, CAREFULLY transfer the contents to a pretty orange jug. If I spill I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN. I can't really tell you how vile this whole thing is. Asking a 37 week pregnant woman to collect her pee every time she goes, which is approximately once every hour, and then transfer it to a stinky orange container is cruel. I can hardly wait until I'm doing it in the middle of the night. The good news is that it'll all be over at 8:00 am tomorrow morning and then I can whisk the container of disgusting pee, laboriously accumulated in 2 ounce increments, to the lab for a quantitative protein analysis. The thought that makes this all tolerable is this, thank goodness I'm not the person measuring other peoples' stinky pee in a lab all day.
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