Laboratory test result

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Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a while, but some of you may

remember that I have a friend who is a hospital doctor who offered to

take a couple of the stones I got out by flushing, and get them

tested in his lab. He was half expecting them to refuse because I

wasn't a patient at the hospital, but no problem! They were quite

interested. The reason it has taken so long is because they are not

usually asked to analyse gallstones. Normally they get to see them

in gall-bladders that have been surgically removed when it is obvious

what they are. This meant that they had to order some special

chemicals.

However, I have now just had the results back and these confirm to no

great surprise on my part (I've always been a 'believer') but also to

my considerabe relief (I've also had that little nagging doubt) that

the samples I provided were definitely gallstones - 100% certain!

To my surprise they contained no bilirubin, but they did contain lots

of cholesterol. They were very keen to stress that there was

absolutely no doubt about the analysis, it had been carried out very

carefully and thoroughly.

The work was done by a consultant bio-chemist at a National Health

Service (NHS) Bio-chemistry Laboratory in Scotland.

I feel pretty jubilant at this news - I hope it finally puts paid to

the theories floating around that what we get out is just soap or

gobs of olive oil. Of course it won't stop the malicious doubters

who will probably insist that I have made the whole thing up, or else

that I sneaked into a morgue and stole the stones from a corpse, or

some such nonsense. However, I can tell you all that right now I

feel great as I move onto a new regime of twice-a-year flushing for

the rest of my life!

Keep on flushing! Nick