I am so sorry it has been so long!!!

I know not many will read this as it has been so long since i have blogged. However, I thought while I am sitting here in a hospital bed, plugged up with an i.v., and unable to go too far... i should journal my thoughts for the moment.
So, yes, i am in the hospital.

The one BIG kidney stone was spotted in an x-ray taken last fall when waiting on my Celiac Disease diagnoses. It was in my left kidney, but was too big to go anywhere. So the doc and I decided to not worry about it until i was finished going through the months and months trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Celiac disease.
I went back to my Urologist last week, and we decided that now that all of that testing was behind me we could proceed with the kidney stone. We had set a date for this coming friday for me to come into the hospital, stay one night, and have the stone pulvarized and sucked out.

Well, as fate would have it, that was not how it was going to work. At 5:00 am yesterday, Wednesday, Feb 25th, I woke up to excrutiating pain. It was ridiculous! Way worse than either labors with the boys... my back was burning, my leg had sharp pains going through it, and the pain just sizzled down towards my pelvic region! It was the worst pain i have ever felt.

We went to the emergency room that the doctor had suggested. They got me right in, and sent me down for a C T Scan. In the scan it showed that I did not have 1 kidney stone, but that I have 4 kidney stones!!! 1 of which had slipped out of my left kidney and is lodged in my uretur... hence all the excrutiating pain. Problem, that hospital did not accept our insurance. So I then, after lots and lots of pain meds, took a quick ambulance ride to another hospital in town. And, this is where I sit this Thursday morning.

The Physician's Assistant came in this morning and said that I would be here until Saturday. So for today, I am to eat, shower, and take a walking tour of the hospital hooked up with Morphine and Saline to my I.V. and play on the internet. Tomorrow, I will be here yet some more doing the same thing, except I will be having my procedure at 1 p.m. where they will be putting me under and taking me into surgery to pulverize the rest of my kidney stones. I will still have a small one in my right kidney, but they are not so worried about that one... Job Security for my Urologist and his P.A.

Until later... i hope this blog finds all that read it well! Ta ta for now!!!