Ouch!

Stated as simply as possible...a bone marrow biopsy is a pain in the ass! (Well, the hip, actually.)
She said it wouldn't hurt much, and it didn't except for when she was drawing out the marrow. Thank God for Lidocane! (And a cute tech assistant holding my hand!)
I'll know the results in a week.
She agrees with the kidney doc that a MRI on the kidney is most likely a waste of money. Probably wouldn't be any more definitive than the CT scan. Normal procedure is to maybe do another CT scan in three months or so and, if warranted, another one six months after that. If whatever it is is growing they most likely will not do a kidney biopsy. It just comes out and I learn to live with one. Kidney doc will probaly have more when I see him next week, but Dr. Kao, in addition to being a doll (!), is a lot more forhcoming with information than he is.
But that's a long way down the road, and I have more importnt things to worry about.