buntz (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} buntz) wrote,@ 2009-05-10 02:08:00 |
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i was supposed to see star trek tonight, but went to the ER instead!
had this pain in my back on tuesday, thought it was from sitting on one of our couches weird, made sure to support my back. wednesday my abdomen hurt. it was its worst in the evening and kept me up all night, hobbling around, bending over, lying down. nothing was comfortable and what was position felt least uncomfortable kept changing.
thought the worst was over, and thursday and friday were marked by dull pain in my back and abdomen. then around 2pm saturday, i felt the worst pain in my abdomen i've ever felt. called my mom, who happens to be in the states with her parents right now, and told her about it, said i was thinking about the ER. toughed it out a little while longer, took a nap, woke up and the pain was even worse. i called one of my roommates (who's graduating this weekend and whose mom is in town) asking her to come home and take me to the ER.
i'm admitted, get a room, they ask if i can give a urine sample. i say i'm not sure but i'll try. i go to the bathroom and i pass a kidney stone into the sample cup. i never would have known. i looked at it after passing it and i was so confused--this came out of me just now?
i take it back, point it out to the nurse and say that i think it might be a stone. they run a CT and do some labwork on my blood. the CT came back that my kidney and ureter were swollen, and the PA started saying "so either the stone is invisible..." and i interrupt and say, "actually, i think i passed it right before the scan" and point at the sample. sure enough, it was a stone, and a big one at that. i hang out while they give me IV pain meds and run the labwork. everything comes back fine and i have a diagnosis.
there's another in my right kidney, but it's pretty far up. it might stay there forever or i'll pass it one day and go through the same ordeal. at least now i'll know what to expect. a week of anguish and confusion comes to a close, and i can go to my friend's graduation tomorrow minus one pebble that fell out of my body. (and hopefully minus kidney swelling after a lot of water-drinking and a good night's sleep.)
had this pain in my back on tuesday, thought it was from sitting on one of our couches weird, made sure to support my back. wednesday my abdomen hurt. it was its worst in the evening and kept me up all night, hobbling around, bending over, lying down. nothing was comfortable and what was position felt least uncomfortable kept changing.
thought the worst was over, and thursday and friday were marked by dull pain in my back and abdomen. then around 2pm saturday, i felt the worst pain in my abdomen i've ever felt. called my mom, who happens to be in the states with her parents right now, and told her about it, said i was thinking about the ER. toughed it out a little while longer, took a nap, woke up and the pain was even worse. i called one of my roommates (who's graduating this weekend and whose mom is in town) asking her to come home and take me to the ER.
i'm admitted, get a room, they ask if i can give a urine sample. i say i'm not sure but i'll try. i go to the bathroom and i pass a kidney stone into the sample cup. i never would have known. i looked at it after passing it and i was so confused--this came out of me just now?
i take it back, point it out to the nurse and say that i think it might be a stone. they run a CT and do some labwork on my blood. the CT came back that my kidney and ureter were swollen, and the PA started saying "so either the stone is invisible..." and i interrupt and say, "actually, i think i passed it right before the scan" and point at the sample. sure enough, it was a stone, and a big one at that. i hang out while they give me IV pain meds and run the labwork. everything comes back fine and i have a diagnosis.
there's another in my right kidney, but it's pretty far up. it might stay there forever or i'll pass it one day and go through the same ordeal. at least now i'll know what to expect. a week of anguish and confusion comes to a close, and i can go to my friend's graduation tomorrow minus one pebble that fell out of my body. (and hopefully minus kidney swelling after a lot of water-drinking and a good night's sleep.)
