ER

So it’s been a while…I know. It has been a very eventful week or two.

Last week started out well. I went and did some strength training with Dad on Monday. He knows his stuff and really helped me out. Tuesday I was feeling ok. I had some soreness was just chalking it up to my workout from the day before. Wednesday comes around and I am extremely sore. Sore and having other problems. I was a little concerned. It wasn’t the normal muscle sore it was a pain in my lower back. I decided not to wait to long, because with surgery only have been 3 weeks prior I didn’t want to mess around. So into the dr. I went. He tells me I am constipated. I think to myself are you sure, heck I even ask him if he thinks I might have a kidney infection because of my symptoms. He said no, and sent me off with a RX in hand. Went to the pharmacy filled the RX and started on it ASAP. Hoping to help alleviate the pain. No such luck. Later that evening in order to sleep I decided to take things into my own hand and use some of my left over Loritab to help me sleep. I was miserable, and I knew this would do the trick, and it did. Woke up in the morning feeling pretty good still a little sore, but nothing I couldn’t bare. Started on our way to work while the pain started getting worse and worse. Dropped the hubby off at work and headed into work. Still not feeling so great. Decided to just take it easy and then when the Dr’s office opened at 8am I would call them and give them an update of the pain and the RX not helping. Mind you it is 6am and I am trying to deal for 2hours. Call at 8am and the Dr. is unavailable, of course. Relay the message and question and say I need to know what to do ASAP, because I am in a lot of pain now. Wait around till 8:30 and still no call back as to what to do, decide to take things into my own hand and head into the ER. Now I am not a huge ER fan. I mean seriously I can count on one hand and probably 3 fingers how many times I myself have had to go to the ER. So when I decided to go I was in pain believe me. Well was admitted fairly quickly and the nurse came in to ask a few questions. The doctor soon came in after. Ordered a CT scan and started running tests. Two attempts by the “crappy” nurse I received an IV for some pain killers. ( I have a bruise to justify the “crappy” part) I was starting to feel better. We waited for a few hours when the test results came back the doctor comes in and says…well…” your pain is definitely justified, you are trying to pass a kidney stone”…ugh. I must admit I was happy to hear that it was justified, but seriously this is all new territory to me. I had never felt such pain in my life so I was still a little nervous. However I did get to receive some wonderful narcotics to help with the pain. Anyway long story short…focusing on eating well and exercising was out staged by the kidney stone. NOW its time to get back into action. I will post pics of my bruise later.