A night in the hospital
So 2:30 this morning I woke up with a sharp pain in the left side of my back. I instantly knew what was happening. Around this time last year I had a kidney stone..almost exactly a year later...I had another one. I woke up and I was freezing with chills, I had a temp of 101 degrees. The pain was bad, but it was quickly getting worse. Then came the nausea and vomitting. The dinner that I had with Jen, Tom, and Carl...all ended up in the toilet, sink, and bathtub, yeah I know, kinda gross. At this point I decided to carry my happy ass a mile down the road to Chippenham hospital. I got there at 3 and didn't leave till 10:30 this morning. I got a bag of fluids and pain medication, then sat and sat and dozed off and finally a doctor saw me at like 6:30. We decided to do the CT to see what exactly was happening, and it turned out I had a stone that was 5mm. That was the same size of my last stone. The doctor said it was in the lower part of my ureter so I still needed to pass it. He wrote me some scripts for toradol and percocet if it started hurting again. I was finally discharged at 10:30, and I came home and slept till 8:30. My back hurts every now and then presumably because the stone is still moving, so hopefully I'll pass it soon.
Katie called me and I went and hung out with her tonight, we watched The Weatherman. It was good, I liked it. It was kind of a dark comedy, it was different..but good. I came home and talked to Eric for a while. He's still getting over being sick. He wrote me a poem which I posted in here previously, I had been bugging him to write me one, and he did. It's really good, and I really like it. He also wrote one and posted it on his myspace..I might post it here later.
Anyways..here are some pix I took of me in the hospital. As you can see I look thrilled. The other pic is my IV :)
Well I'm gonna get to bed I guess. Hopefully I will have a better night. Laterz.
Katie called me and I went and hung out with her tonight, we watched The Weatherman. It was good, I liked it. It was kind of a dark comedy, it was different..but good. I came home and talked to Eric for a while. He's still getting over being sick. He wrote me a poem which I posted in here previously, I had been bugging him to write me one, and he did. It's really good, and I really like it. He also wrote one and posted it on his myspace..I might post it here later.
Anyways..here are some pix I took of me in the hospital. As you can see I look thrilled. The other pic is my IV :)
Well I'm gonna get to bed I guess. Hopefully I will have a better night. Laterz.