An abbreviated review of my kidney patient career so far: had 240/something blood pressure with no real symptoms besides a headache and slightly blurry vision (which quickly recovered), walked merrily into the ICU to the astonishment of the nurses (and walked out again a day later), continued living a mostly normal life without dialisys on 8-10% remaining kidney function (ie. end-stage kidney failure) and no meaningful deterioriation over that timespan, managed to reduce salt in my diet so much that the sodium levels in my blood were dangerously low (again with no meaningful symptoms), learned to detect high potassium levels by feel, which once again baffled medical people, and was told today by a nurse that I am the second person they've ever had to pick up for a check-up on foot rather than in a bed, despite having worked there for a while.

I swear, at some point I'm surely going to become a medical research subject