Okay since I never do anything quite according to plan today's surgery went a little differently than I mentioned in my last post. Mostly because they ended up doing half it on Friday.
Around noon on Thursday, my kidney started to hurt again (since it's my right kidney, I feel the pain in my lower right back, below my ribcage). Great, I figured I was pyschosymatic-ing the pain because I knew the stones were still there. I took some ibuprofen and tried to go on with the day.
Around 5pm (after hosting a Girl Scout Daisy meeting, I'm insane) the nauseous kicked in. I can deal with the pain (mostly) and I can deal with being sick to my stomach (after months of morning sickness times 4 pregnancies, I know the tricks) but the two together just do me in in a heart beat. So after a bunch of phone calls, the urology office told me to go to the ER and they'd admit me overnight to be placed on the surgery schedule for Friday. Plus they promised pain and anti-nauseous meds, woot. Greg was home from MI at that point and my sister Sarah popped over to watch the kids. So off I went, puking all the way.
Lalala, overnight at the hospital, 4pm surgery to remove 6mm kidney stone stuck by my bladder, and then the anesthesia did another number on me. I was suppose to go home Friday night but just felt like crap after the surgery with more puking. So I stayed through Saturday morning. Steph picked my sorry butt up at the hospital and brought me home, thank you dearie!
Sunday I rested. I knit socks and watched crap TV (you know, stuff like Bravo, TLC, and E!).
Today I decided to still go through with the shock wave treatment on the 8mm stone in my kidney. Technically it hasn't been causing all the problems but I wasn't taking any chances with me "throwing the stone" and going through all of the above again any time soon. And as far as I can tell, the treatment went well. I'm going in for x-rays on Friday to see what's left and I'm back to drinking a zillion gallons of water. There will be some follow ups over the next few months to figure out why I made the kidney stones in the first place and how to prevent future ones. But I really hope I'm coming to the end of my kidney stone saga and can get back to normal.
Well as normal as it gets around here...
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