Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Worst Date Ever!!!!!!!

Ok, so we went from the perfect date with my last post to the worst date ever this post. No, this has nothing to do with my amazing husband who once again planned a truly wonderful date for me this past Friday. **Warning** this can get graphic and yucky :P**
It started off with a wonderful dinner at a small Italian restaurant downtown. It was beautiful and the atmosphere was very romantic! After that we headed to a small comedy theatre downtown. They have family-friendly comedy nights but unfortunately this wasn't it. Needless to say we won't be going back but it was still a beautiful night. As we were at the comedy place, I said to Dave ooh, my back is hurting - maybe it will be a heating pad night. Well, within 20 minutes of leaving the theatre I was in horrific pain and knew beyond a shadow of a doubt what this was - a kidney stone! It was a 35 minute or so ride home and poor Dave had to stop the car halfway and pull off to the side of the road and let me vomit. For about 3 hours I proceeded to writhe in pain and vomit 6 times. It was awful! Saturday brought more of the same but a little more tolerable and Sunday - more of the same until.....
YAY, a stupid stone the size of a (I know this sounds gross but it is truly what I thought of) tick.
This small thing caused all that crazy pain that obviously my body could not handle! This stupid thing is what caused pain (I know some may disagree but I have had natural childbirth twice with only 1/2 dose of Nubain - I say this because with contractions you have a minute or so in between your worst contractions before it builds again - with a kidney stone, there is no letting up!!!) worse than childbirth!!! Well good it was finally gone - now I could get back to normalcy again with some residual kidney flank pain. Not so much....
Later Sunday evening I started feeling really crappy and lo and behold I spiked a fever. Time to call the doctor again. He ordered an antibiotic and told me to come see him on Monday. I continued to break fevers all day Monday and saw the doctor Monday afternoon. He said that my urine showed no signs of infection but that he wanted me to continue on the antibiotics because it could be that they already started to work. He also said it could be my body's way of responding to the trauma of what just happened with passing the kidney stone. He sent me home and told me to come back to see my regular urologist (he was an associate) on Thursday after another x-ray to see what was going on. May I remind or let those of you know that did not know I still had 3 kidney stones left in my left kidney as of last year after my surgery and experience with my first kidney stone ever.
As of this morning I have almost been 24 hours free of fevers which I am very excited about!! Also, Dave and I went to get my x-ray yesterday and lo and behold now there are only 2 stones. This is good to me on 2 levels. NO new stones have formed and there are now only 2 left that I have to deal with. I go to the urologist today and will update later and let you know how it went and what his plans are. Many thanks to those that have been praying!! God is truly my source of strength in something like this so I thank you for interceding for me!!

4 comments:

Braley Mama said...

Oh mama, I am praying the other 2 will just vanish. That sounds horrible. With support raising comes some fun stuff :O( We were sick more than ever this past year and a half. We r praying for u guys!!!!!
I love your new pic on top:O)

eBay Bidding Strategy said...

Wow that sounds really intense. A beautiful dinner date interrupted by a small stone. I have gone through similar pain when my husband took my to Italy last summer. I did not realize I had multiple stones until we were relaxing on the beach. You are right though, it is far worse than child birth...lol!

Dave, Krysten, Andrew, and Kira said...

I am so sorry that you have stones too - they are certainly not fun!! Thanks for your thoughts and concerns! :) Will be praying that neither of us ever have another stone again :)

The Brooks Bunch said...

Aw Krysten! I hate to hear this! Ugh! What did the urologist say?? Call if you need anything! ((HUGS))