~~UrgenT CarE VisiT~~

So....
Saturday I woke up feeling really wiped out.....
but the side pain had subsided....
I thought I was in the clear.....
just a little more being careful to not overextend myself....
lots of liquids....
rest....
its all good?!

1/2 way thru the day ...I actually felt well enough to 'Dyson' the house to death...
can I just say...
there should be a national Dyson Holiday....
because...
that...vacuum... ROCKS!

took garbage out...shredded more stuff....
some laundry went in....
& time for shower...

mmm....I haven't eaten all day...
go out....run a couple errands....eat din din...
borrow "shooting aces" movie from Stu...
& lay down at 9:30 or so to watch.

um...yeah.....
precisely at the same time as the nite before.....
10:30...I am in tears.....screaming from the pain again.

OH HELL NO!
NOT AGAIN
now...knowing full well
what hell was to come.....I call D.....
"come get me...".....sob..sob...."it is starting again...."..."please!"
while I waited......I called BCBS.....
poor helpdesk person....
listening to me try to get info....in between sobs....
on closest urgent care at this hour of the day...
he assures me that the addy he rattled off to me ....
is open.....
I call....just in case

NOT OPEN!
so .....I throw the phone down....& run next door....
well...walk reeeeeally gingerly....

scared the shit out of Char.....knockin on her door @ 11:00 pm...
woke her up out of a sound sleep.....
bent over in pain....crying....
"where is the nearest urgent care!??!"
she grabs purse & proceeds to try & figure out what the hell is happening to me...
I told her to come sit w/ me while D gets across town...

he hit construction....calls...& we all agree
Char should take me....he will meet us....

I paced the waiting room for 1/2 hr...
get called in...registered......pee in cup....& wait more....
D arrives & we wait another 1/2 hour or so......b4 I can get into emergency area...
Nurse ratchet comes in ....takes my cc for deductible.....
PA TOBY comes in...gets verbal description of my pain ....
((which really shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out.....))
I eventually get a catscan.....
5 -6 tubes blood drawn.....
urinalysis....
& told a nurse would be in soon w/ my pain meds....
& that if I didn't hear anything from her in about 5... to ring the bell......

yeah......about 30 seconds went by.....
I asked D..."has it been 5 yet?"....
YUP.. he says....push that button ...
guy nurse wearing little john deer tractors on his scrubs comes in....
(same one who took all my blood earlier)

says....well I guess U want something for that pain....huh?
gee.....what was your first fuckin clue ace?

the rocking back -n-forth like an autistic child?...
the pacing?
the wincing pain on my face?
or my sailor like smart ass commentary to all the staff?

Hook a sistah up !

so....one large juicy-juice IV bag of wonderment later.......
I am swaddled like a baby ....
on the gurney...finally able to breathe....
& carry on a conversation......

PA TOBY ...comes back in...
comments on the UTI...
& the blood in my urine...
the angry state of my kidney.....ureter... & bladder ...
She says another nurse will be hookin me up...
w/ another little bag of concentrated antibiotics...
wheeee!..

other little bag of juicy juice gets hooked up...
lites go down...
D goes out for a break......& i takes a little nap....ahhh =)...
it is 5:30 am ....afterall....might as well...huh?

Finally ..the man of the hr...
Dr. Rodriguez saunters in.....
& proceeds to tell me the cat scan shows I passed a stone while I was there...
& it was still in my bladder...
he affirmed ......that since it was a play by play repeat of the day before...
as far as the pain location....movement & level...
this was prolly the second stone...
gr8......

yeah....I'm stubborn....& had to admit that when the doc was like...."ah...why didn't you come in yesterday?..."

Keep in mind.....
this was after the nurse explained to me
that I didn't puke from a physiological relationship between
the stone migrating to a certain spot in the ureter...
but rather because the brain
has a natural defensive reaction
when the body experiences a certain level of pain...
....
on the pain scale of 1 -10....
when the body hits the threshold of 10+
it's defensive move is to make you pass-out.
because that causes less physical damage....
but first....
The brain tells the stomach to empty...
in case theres poison to get out before passing out...

:::crickets chirping:::

yeah...I'm an idiot...
but ..how 'bout that pain threshold huh?....LOL

& after D witnessed what I was going thru,
he was amazed at my stupidity too.

"tell me again...
why U didn't just go to urgent care yesterday when this happened the first time?"

I know ...I know...
well...I now know...whenever that VERY distinct pain starts again...
even a HINT of it?...I'm off to urgent care! lol

I also asked for some pain meds in case it starts again...

They sent me home w/ little strainers to strain my pee...
all my lab reports...
receipts
scripts for antibiotics....motrin 800 ...& 10 precious vicodins...

Finally got home
took a shower...
& crawled into bed at 6:30 am... =(
D & I got about 5 hrs sleep ...b4 activities started again...

U know....puppies out...phs ringing....etc...after Stu stopped over to borrow Mitsy...
cause his car is still in the shop...
D took me to get my meds......& then boogied back to his side of town...

Of course ...I crawled right back on that couch...
turned on the 59 in...
put in a movie from Stu...
wrapped myself into a nice soft velour blankie...
set up liquids....took meds
turned lites off ....lit candles
....got all snuggled w/ puppies....
& fell asleep... =) PAINFREE!