Today I’m redoing the 24-hr creatinine clearance and it’s going much better this time. Tomorrow morning I get the famous 17-tube fasting blood draw – I have the order and it’s kind of interesting. Typical metabolic stuff (glucose, phosphorus, comprehensive metabolic panel, CBC, lipid panel, some others I had maybe vaguely heard of or not at all: “partial thromboplastin time,” “protime differential”), but then a ton of diseases and even parasites: HIV, TB, syphilis (!), cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr, hep B, hep C, trypanosoma, strongyloides, and West Nile. Sure hope none of those come back positive! Then Thursday afternoon I have a psych evaluation, chest X-ray, EKG, and renal ultrasound. It’s kind of cool to be so deep into tests when I’m perfectly healthy. On a totally irrational level it’s like I’m warding off the possibility of illness by voluntarily undergoing this stuff – like sharing love and getting as much as you give. I hope. It would be so awesome to be able to share health. Fingers crossed!