- Feb 9, 2000
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Kidney Stones UPDATE!
Well I sat in a hotel room this past Thursday feeling like death was surely right around the corner. Flew home Friday and had Aimee take me to the emergency room first thing Saturday morning. After about 4 hours, 2 IV's, A shot to fight infection and possibly the most traumatic event of my life (a shot for pain) I was on my way to the pharmacy for percecet and an antibiotic. I am the proud owner of a kidney stone :yikes: I'm sure 'stoney' has been with me for awhile as he is all of 5 millimeters in diameter. Doc says there is little chance of him passing in the normal manner (that might be a good thing). Sunday was pretty uneventful except for the wonderful peeing in a container and straining it 20 times. It's now Monday morning and the urologist is apparently too busy to see me today. "Do you have something for the pain to get you through until tomorrow?" the nice lady says. I may have been rude in my reply.
I gotta tell you about this shot for pain. I don't remember what it was called but it started with "Di". I was sitting up when she stuck the needle in the IV. Within a second or two I felt a ring of fire around my stomach and it quickly started moving up towards my head. Quite alarmed I started to say "Is this supposed to..." - that's all I got out before I fell backwards onto the bed. The next few minutes were surreal as the heat overwhelmed me, I became so short of breath that I couldn't utter a sound. Tears were flowing out of both eyes (really flowing) and my entire body was shaking. Aimee of course freaked out pretty good and was attempting to talk to me but alas I was getting my own little freak on. I told the Doc I didnt know what that was but I didn't think we needed to do that again....EVER.
So here I sit waiting 1 more day until 'stoney' get ultrasonically blasted to bit and we part ways.
I did get out of my trip to PA this week though ;)
UPDATE: Luckey me. I thought it was very clear that today was going to be the end of this. Apparently the stone is too far down for the Doc's liking so tomorrow they are going to shove a tube up me and push it back to a better spot. They will then blast away at it and then yank the string that is to be attached to previously mentioned string to remove the tube. Today my right nut feels like I just got racked. You know the kind of pain that makes your eyes roll back in your head and makes you sick to your stomach :bang: except it doesn't go away. The only good news today is that he said they will also take care of the 'other stoney' that isn't presently causing problems and he also mentioned a drug that will keep others from forming. This Doc says that 'stoney' is actually 5.5 mm lol, like that makes a difference.
Well I sat in a hotel room this past Thursday feeling like death was surely right around the corner. Flew home Friday and had Aimee take me to the emergency room first thing Saturday morning. After about 4 hours, 2 IV's, A shot to fight infection and possibly the most traumatic event of my life (a shot for pain) I was on my way to the pharmacy for percecet and an antibiotic. I am the proud owner of a kidney stone :yikes: I'm sure 'stoney' has been with me for awhile as he is all of 5 millimeters in diameter. Doc says there is little chance of him passing in the normal manner (that might be a good thing). Sunday was pretty uneventful except for the wonderful peeing in a container and straining it 20 times. It's now Monday morning and the urologist is apparently too busy to see me today. "Do you have something for the pain to get you through until tomorrow?" the nice lady says. I may have been rude in my reply.
I gotta tell you about this shot for pain. I don't remember what it was called but it started with "Di". I was sitting up when she stuck the needle in the IV. Within a second or two I felt a ring of fire around my stomach and it quickly started moving up towards my head. Quite alarmed I started to say "Is this supposed to..." - that's all I got out before I fell backwards onto the bed. The next few minutes were surreal as the heat overwhelmed me, I became so short of breath that I couldn't utter a sound. Tears were flowing out of both eyes (really flowing) and my entire body was shaking. Aimee of course freaked out pretty good and was attempting to talk to me but alas I was getting my own little freak on. I told the Doc I didnt know what that was but I didn't think we needed to do that again....EVER.
So here I sit waiting 1 more day until 'stoney' get ultrasonically blasted to bit and we part ways.
I did get out of my trip to PA this week though ;)
UPDATE: Luckey me. I thought it was very clear that today was going to be the end of this. Apparently the stone is too far down for the Doc's liking so tomorrow they are going to shove a tube up me and push it back to a better spot. They will then blast away at it and then yank the string that is to be attached to previously mentioned string to remove the tube. Today my right nut feels like I just got racked. You know the kind of pain that makes your eyes roll back in your head and makes you sick to your stomach :bang: except it doesn't go away. The only good news today is that he said they will also take care of the 'other stoney' that isn't presently causing problems and he also mentioned a drug that will keep others from forming. This Doc says that 'stoney' is actually 5.5 mm lol, like that makes a difference.
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