How I spent my Sunday.

Don't read if squeamish... lol



This really hasn't been the best week. lol

Went to bed last night with my side kinda hurtin... wasn't worried about it though, it happens a lot to me.

Wake up this morning and my side really hurts... so I'm thinking.. ok maybe I'm gonna start.. decided to take a hot bath, figured it'd help. It made it worse.... I could barely get out of the tub to pee.... and when I did it was mainly blood.... freaked me the fuck out. Hollered for Sean and told him I needed him to help me get dressed and take me to the hospital... not messin around with blood like that. Get half way down the street and realize that I didn't have my i.d. so we had to go back and get that. By this point I can't sit still.. I can't find a position to sit in that isn't just killing me. I knew it was a kidney stone... but the blood part had me freaked out...

Finally make it to the hospital and I'm crying and barely able to walk, shaking like crazy color gone and I have to sit in the waiting room for 45 minutes nad I feel like I'm dieing... lol I keep standing up and then sitting and laying and curling up in a ball.. just anything I could do to take just the smallest bit of pain away.. nothing worked... it was miserable.... then I felt like I had to pee again....

I made Sean wait at the door for me cause I couldn't walk that well. Went in to pee and ended up passing the stone.... and more blood....

Now generally when you pass it, it's like the pain just automatically goes away.... well it didn't happen this time... it still really hurt.. maybe even worse and I kept feeling this pressure feeling.. it was weird...I've gone to the er before for a stone and passed the stone while waiting to be seen, and because it stopped hurting magically, I didn't keep waiting, I just left. But this time, it didn't quit hurting so I stayed.

Finally get called and they take my blood and make me piss in a cup to make sure I'm not pregnant even though I told them I wasn't. They put me on a bed in the hallway... cause they could see the chairs just weren't working for me... and the entire waiting room was watching me cause I'm the only person in there crying and moaning and writhing around... lol They take me for a ct scan and then bring me back to the hallway where sean is waiting. We sit in this hallway for over an hour til Sean gets pissed and says something to them... so they come get me and take me to a room... I never did see a nurse, I never got a gown, no iv fluids.. no nothing. I'm not a nurse but even I know that someone with kidney issues needs to have a saline drip going.... like stat bitches. I ended up curling myself into the tightest possible ball I could get in, getting underneatht he covers totally and falling asleep. Wake up to the doctor and a very bored Sean (my poor hun) both talking to me. He pokes me a few times, hits my back and says I'll be back.... goes to read my ct scan I'm assuming and comes back in and says congratulations, you passed it. Then he tells me it'll continue to spasm and hurt for a few days and the blood should stop... it was just because this stone was pretty big. lucky me.

Then he says.... and I'm not kidding either, this was his exact words to me. "Would you like a shot or something?" I declined the shot and asked for a pill instead... so the nurse brings me ONE lortab 10 and my discharge papers, a cup of water and leaves the room.

That was it. And people wonder why I just find someone with pain pills take them at home and not go to the doctor with every stone I have....

I was almost mad about the situation... for one thing... they never ONCE asked for my I.D. When they checked me in, they showed me the computer screen and said is all this correct still? Social security number, bithdate, address, everything... just showed it to me to verify it.. never asked for my license... or seans.

Then the fact that I never seen a nurse, never got an iv, and never even got a gown... they gave me the ct with my jeans on...and all my body jewelry and whatever I had in my pockets. The nurses were kinda rude, except for one and I stopped on the way out and thanked her for being so helpful. And the nurse that brought me the lortab didn't watch me take it.. I could have given it to Sean for all she knew. She wasn't going to tell me what it was either.. she handed it to me and started out the room and i stopped her and asked her what it was. And not sending me home with at least like 10 pain pills... I couldn't believe that.... I am FAR from a pill head... I came in balling dieing from pain, pissed em a cup full of blood and had an xray show the tears the stone left in my kidneys and tell me it's going to continue to hurt for a few days til the spasms stop and not send me home with at least some like 1000 mg motrin or somethin.... I'm not looking for a buzz people..... I just don't want to feel like my insides are falling out of me anymore. I can find a buzz elsewhere.

Ugh.... I'm just disappointed in the way they treated me today.. I go to that hospital for a reason. I've been to most all of them here lol and that one has always had the best service.. didn't even compare to the others... until this week.. and I probably won't go back now.

I feel better now though.. the pain meds have kicked in. Long as it doesn't get bad again I think I'm alright....