Saturday, May 2, 2009

Kidneys, Take Out, and CTs

I'm back and that is what my week off consisted of!  It has been hard, but I made it through my blogging break!  Ha!  I did check in on a few of you throughout the week, but mostly I went to work and came home to my couch and had take out.  Why you ask, because I woke up last Saturday with a KIDNEY STONE and have been miserable ever since.  

For those of you who don't know me IRL, I have suffered with kidney stones since I was 17.  In March of 1999 I had a HUGE stone that caused me to develop fluid in my abdomen and pelvis and become septic (bad infection) and required surgery to remove.  Ever since then I have been blessed with chronic infections and kidney stones.  

I knew it as soon as I woke up, it is an unmistakable pain that I KNEW was a stone.  I luckily had some strong pain medicine and phenergan left over from my ankle injury that got me through the initial pain and nausea.  I felt a little better by Sunday so I went with Michael to get the boat cleaned and put in the water.  I still felt ok Monday and made it through the day pretty well, but by Monday night, I was hurting and sick again.  Tuesday Dr. Smith made me have a CT.  So, I left work, went to have a simple CT, well that was not so simple.  I needed a beta Hcg (blood pregnancy test) before they would radiate my pelvis.  So, not only did I miss 90 minutes of work for nothing, I got to find out that my first cycle back TTC was a failure (so much for the excitement that I had that my baby would be due on our 5th anniversary)!  Finally on Wednesday afternoon I got to have the CT which showed a possible stone.  We aren't sure if I passed one and I have pain from inflammation or if it is still there.  I am going to see a new urologist on Wednesday.  

So, yes, good thing I took a blogging break!  I am feeling a little better today, but not as well as I should without a stone.  Hopefully the new urologist can figure out why I am a stone machine.  I wish I had some cool pictures to show you from my blogging break, but I don't think you want to see pics of me lying on the couch in front of a pizza box or Logan's to go!  Ha!

6 comments:

Kelli said...

Welcome back!! :)

Sorry you've been in pain! Good luck at the urologist!

Becky said...

When we lived in Puerto Rico, we had a pastor and his wife from the US visit for the Summer. We took them up into the mountains and the wife had a kidney stone attack. We had to leave her at a small hospital where they didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish! It was a long week for her.

I hear kidney stones are miserable. They are also hereditary and I am the only one in my family who has not had them. The doctor says he anticipates that one day I will...

Feel better soon.

Silvina said...

I'm SO glad your back!!! I hope the new urologist can help you and hopefully prevent the stones from coming back. That must be a miserable pain. Take it easy.

Lauren said...

You poor thing! Hope you get to feeling better! Sounds like your bloggy break couldn't have been more timely!!

Jenn said...

Welcome back! I have missed you :) Hope you are feeling better and get your kidney stones taken care of! You will have to read about my fall. Oh dear?!

Lauren said...

David's had 3 kidney stones since we met, and all 3 times, his nurses told me that they'd rather have unmedicated childbirth than a kidney stone. OH MY WORD. So I can't imagine how much that hurts! Meagan's had 2, as well. I'm just waiting for my turn.