When it rains it pours…
That is how it has been for me lately.
Remember how I had Mastitis a couple of weeks ago?
Remember how I had kidney stones during my pregnancy?
(I actually had them during 3 of my 5 pregnancies, but never when I was not pregnant.)
Friday evening I started to feel uncomfortable and had pain.
I have a pretty high tolerance for pain and I decided to try to take some Tylenol and go to bed.
I woke up Saturday morning feeling pretty good, so I painted the kitchen. (Hubby was away on a business trip since last Wed, so it was just me and the boys and I really wanted to surprise him with a painted kitchen when he got home.)
About halfway through the day on Saturday I started having some pretty intense pains.
The pains only continued to get worse as the day went by.
With my husband being out of town I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do with the kids.
As it turns out everyone in my family was out of town or not reachable, however my mother in law was able to watch the older 4 boys for me, and since the baby is nursing I brought him along with me to the ER. They could tell I was in pain when we arrived and when they asked how I rated my pain I told them I had a pretty high tolerance for pain, but that I was really in a lot of pain even if it didn’t show.
After being there for hours, drawing blood, getting urine samples, giving me an IV and doing a CT scan they came in and told me that I have a huge kidney stone that they were able to see on the CT scan. They said that they were surprised I had passed it as far as I had and that I may need some help having it removed, so I have to go see a Urologist on Monday if I have not yet passed it. Either way, I think I may make an appointment just to find out for sure what is up with my kidneys and stuff.
When they came in they said that I was doing wonderfully for as much pain as I must have been in. I said, I told you I had a high pain tolerance, and they said, well a lot of people say that. I meant it though.
I guess after having 5 babies and getting kidney stones 4 different times you tend to have a higher tolerance for pain.
Since I had drove myself to the hospital and I was nursing they couldn’t really give me anything other than Tylenol for the pain. It is taking a bit of the edge off, and I’m actually not feeling NEAR as bad, so far, today. I’m not sure why I have only been getting the really bad pains later in the day, but I guess I shouldn’t complain because I would rather not have them all day long. I think the more I don’t move around the less pain I have, and the first part of the day I do a LOT less than I do the rest of the day.
So, please keep your fingers crossed that I can pass this darn stone with no problems and don’t have to have any help getting it removed (because I believe I may have to go without nursing in order to have this done, and I really don’t want to quit nursing. I sure wish I would have given little man a bottle at least here and there for times like these.)
Hubby is on his way home from his business trip a little early, and while I feel really bad about him coming home, I will be happy to have him here to help out.
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