really, life?
So I'm getting out of bed this morning when this pain hits. And by pain, I mean, "Jesus, what am I doing on the ground and who just kicked me in the small of the back?"
Once I managed to pick myself up and drag myself to the bathroom by hanging onto walls, I popped a Lortab (I have them for migraines) and started getting dressed. Took a good twenty minutes since, every time I moved my back, my knees buckled. A long, painful 40 minutes later, I'm trying to get into the car when the pain's just GONE.
Okay, so that's unsettling and I should probably call the doctor (no new meds yet. that's going to have to wait until next Friday, yay) to see if I actually need to go to the Urgent Care ("cheap" emergency medicine place) now that the pain's mostly gone or not. The nurse (Denise, who also is my clinical trial contact and the sweetest, most understanding woman I've seen in the medical profession in decades) listens to me explain where it was, how it felt, etc and says, "Yeah, that sounds less like a muscle spasm than a kidney stone. If you have that intense, debilitating pain again, get yourself straight to the ER."
things I do not need:
1) an emergency-room bill
2) pain that can't be numbed away
3) a condition that can lead to random bouts of debilitation when I'm already in attendance trouble at work
I'm trying to look on the bright side here. Denise said lots of people pass these things on their own and that, even if it is a stone, I could go years without more pain or trouble. But you know me and uncertainty. I work 24 hours in the next three days and I'm all kinds of edgy and wondering if I should at least go to Urgent Care and ask for more Lortab but, at the same time, I don't want to seem like a drug-seeker asking for narcotics on the off-chance. So, yeah, not much enjoying my day off, especially as I'm not sure my back feels good enough for me to drive to Kent for D&D tonight *sighs* I can't even be enthused over Sanctuary tonight...
Once I managed to pick myself up and drag myself to the bathroom by hanging onto walls, I popped a Lortab (I have them for migraines) and started getting dressed. Took a good twenty minutes since, every time I moved my back, my knees buckled. A long, painful 40 minutes later, I'm trying to get into the car when the pain's just GONE.
Okay, so that's unsettling and I should probably call the doctor (no new meds yet. that's going to have to wait until next Friday, yay) to see if I actually need to go to the Urgent Care ("cheap" emergency medicine place) now that the pain's mostly gone or not. The nurse (Denise, who also is my clinical trial contact and the sweetest, most understanding woman I've seen in the medical profession in decades) listens to me explain where it was, how it felt, etc and says, "Yeah, that sounds less like a muscle spasm than a kidney stone. If you have that intense, debilitating pain again, get yourself straight to the ER."
things I do not need:
1) an emergency-room bill
2) pain that can't be numbed away
3) a condition that can lead to random bouts of debilitation when I'm already in attendance trouble at work
I'm trying to look on the bright side here. Denise said lots of people pass these things on their own and that, even if it is a stone, I could go years without more pain or trouble. But you know me and uncertainty. I work 24 hours in the next three days and I'm all kinds of edgy and wondering if I should at least go to Urgent Care and ask for more Lortab but, at the same time, I don't want to seem like a drug-seeker asking for narcotics on the off-chance. So, yeah, not much enjoying my day off, especially as I'm not sure my back feels good enough for me to drive to Kent for D&D tonight *sighs* I can't even be enthused over Sanctuary tonight...