good news/bad news

the good news is, despite my recent return to the regular consumption of adult beverages, my liver is fine.

the bad news is, my protein levels are too low. whatever that means.

what i'd like to know, besides how in the world i am exhibiting symptoms of either crash dieting or third-world kind of malnutrition (neither could be further from the truth), is who is examining my pee to come up with these conclusions? i have never heard a child say, when i grow up, i want to be a pee examiner! i cannot recall a single aptitude test ever administered to me that listed "analyst of urine specimens" or anything like it in the index of prospective occupations. how does a person end up in that line of work? maybe it's arrogant of me to think it's a job in which one "ends up" - maybe there are people who aspire to be such analysts, or maybe it pays more or requires more education or is more fulfilling than i assume. but still - to look at people's urine cups all day seems like one crappy job.

the end of this story is that i'm either depleted from pregnancy and/or being sick last month, and i have a month to get my protein together or i will be sent to a nutritionist. unbelievable.