Sunday, May 25, 2008

Jake and I wound up at the hospital again this morning, this time at the ER. Guess who had a kidney stone attack? Yeeeaaaaah, fun. I woke up at 2:30 with the telltale pain, but then it subsided a bit so I went back to sleep until 4:30. Then I awoke to even more pain than before, so we threw on some clothes and headed to the ER. Thankfully it was dead and there was only one guy ahead of us. The triage nurse asked me for a urine sample, so when I peed in the cup I got quite a surprise when my urine was the color of cherry Kool-Aid. So they brought me to the back and gave me a bed and an IV, and thankfully the girl got the vein in my right hand on the first try. Then they gave me a small amount of morphine and some Gravol for the pain. Wow, I've never had morphine before, but I can see how people could get addicted! It gave me quite the buzz. I peed several times and used the strainer, but I never saw a stone. The pain went away probably at around 7:00 in the morning, but they still gave me an ultrasound to look at my kidneys. They didn't inform the ultrasound tech that I was pregnant, so she was doing her bidness and after a few minutes of checking my right side, she moved the wand to my abdomen and goes, "Uhhh, you're pregnant?" When I told her yes, she said, "Geez, thanks for telling me, guys. It's nowhere on this sheet! I saw the head and it freaked me out!" I had quite the laugh about that one. When I returned to the ER triage Jake told me that the doctor came by and told him that I had a kidney stone but that I passed it. I was totally confused because I never saw a stone, and the nurses who had to check my pee never mentioned to me that they found a stone. The pain was/is gone, but I'm afraid it's still in there and just moved and that it'll cause more pain when it starts moving again. I figure that they just wanted to send me home because the ER was getting really busy. I'm crossing my fingers that I did indeed pass the stone and that we just missed it. We finally left at around 10:30 AM and I came home and went right to bed. My hand is killing me from the IV, but otherwise I feel okay.

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