Got admitted on the 21st I think. I dont really remember, this week has been a blur. came into the ER with excruciating and truely unbelievable pain from a kidney stone. I've had them before but this was inhuman. got some morphine and finally stabilized. Ended up getting a stent. the stone was too low for lithotripsy so they had to go up thru the urethra with a laser and catch and fish the stone out. thank god I was out for that part. Woke up with a string hanging out of my johnson. I call it my manpon. the string is attatched to a tube thats lodged in my ureter. Its there so the ureter wont collapse. The downside is, I'm leaking blood and it really REALLY hurts to pee. my kidney throbs and my nuts ache. The pain is really bad but what makes it worse is a feel really really depressed. When I laid in the hospital bed this morning, I actually thought seriously about killing myself. I knew it was stupid, its just a temporary pain, but for somer eason Ive been super depressed since the whole thing started. To top things off, my daughter is being a brat and the wife crashed her new car into a fucking wall. the damage is minor but shit, it only took her like 3 weeks to fuck up something I worked my ass off for. Its going in for repair tomorrow or monday. Oh I forgot the best part. when I called her from teh hospital to tell ehr I was being admitted and would be going to surgery, the first thing she asked me was where her money was. she was all pissed that I didnt leave my bank card at home for her to get her god damn 50 bucks with. If I could have reached thru the phone and strangled her, I would have. shit, just thinking about it now makes me want to punch her. good thing she went for a walk.
so all in all, its been a bad week full of car damage, pain, hospitals, depression, bills, lost wages, no good, lazy ass whiney paramedics (fuck all of you), and bad hospital food. why do they ask you if you've taken a shit if all theyve given you to "eat" is juice?
Just remember how incredibly beautiful your wife is
Sorry to hear you're having such a bad week! Glad to hear you are okay though!
And I can't imagine your pain. Urinary Tract Infections are bad enough for me!
Hang in there man.
and BTW- isn't your daughter only like 2 or something? Aren't they *supposed to be brats then?
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Although I've never had the pleasure, I've heard there's no pain like kidney stones. Sorry to hear you're so sick. Hope you're feeling lots better real soon.
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sorry for the disjointed, unpleasent "rant". I was going through SEVERE morphine withdrawls. very odd feeling. I seem to have fully detoxed now. I feel better except for the awful pain when I have to piss. the stent acts as a two way street since it cant close off. when you squeeze the bladder, some uring travels back up the ureter and puts pressure on the kidney. hurts like a sonofabitch.
rokie, I wish it passed on its own. they had to jam a hose up my ding dong and fish it out. doc said it was the size of her pinkie nail. (the stone, not my piece you mean bastards. )
yes my daughter is 18 months. I know they are brats but she has been extra uncooperative. I guess its just karma coming back on me.
and I still love my wife. she was jsut tired and annoyed when I called her. a lapse in judgement. like I said, morphine withdrawls had me acting crazy.
Being from the Renal side of the medical community (Renal=kidney) I can sincerely sympathize!
I've never had the misfortune of having a stone (Thank the goddess for that!) I have, however been in severe pain and on morphine. I never had withdrawl problems though. They ask if you've had a BM because morphine causes constipation - severe in some cases. I've suffered that indignancy.
Well, the depression - I've felt that. The hospital sucks. Flat out, nothing about it helps except the medicine and technology theyhave to fix us. I hate the food, hate the beds, hate the fact that without drugs you can't freakin' sleep or get any rest in a hospital.
This will all heal and you'll be as good as new in no time. Be thankful that was all it was and is now behind you. Hell, I've had 2 kidney transplants and I'm thankful I've never had cancer or some other horrible disease. Not discounting the severity of a renal transplant and dialysis, but there are other things I'd rather not deal with....but, if I had to I'd have to...
Hang in there man...you'll be ok and your ding dong will be ringing your wife's bell in no time!
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I thought about you alot while I was in the hospital, Chelly. I really got a good understanding of what it must be like for you. I got to deal with some of the most asshole EMTs in the world, and nurses and techs that deserved a good punching. Then there were the morphine withdrawls and now Im trying to get a script for a different antibiotic. the Bactrim is making me so sick, I can barely function. it took me 4 hours just to be able to stand up. I dont want to get an infection, but I'm NOT taking this crap anymore. and of course, its the weekend so its 4x harder to get what I need.
Good luck with the whole meds thing, they can be a royal PITA until you get them just right, and usually by then it's almost time to be off them Can't say I've ever had the morphine withdrawals though, I hated almost every second of that stuff... were you on it long enough to feel itchy all over? That's annoying.
Glad to hear at least the stone's gone though... a few people in my family have had those and either gotten them zapped to bits or passed them, both ways have been reported as terribly painful, I hope to keep away from those bad boys.
Jeez sounds like you've had a rough week! Glad to hear you're pulling through. I've never had the pleasure myself, and hope I never do. I'd never wish anyone to have a tube in their schlong.
TXFO wrote: I thought about you alot while I was in the hospital, Chelly. I really got a good understanding of what it must be like for you. I got to deal with some of the most asshole EMTs in the world, and nurses and techs that deserved a good punching. Then there were the morphine withdrawls and now Im trying to get a script for a different antibiotic. the Bactrim is making me so sick, I can barely function. it took me 4 hours just to be able to stand up. I dont want to get an infection, but I'm NOT taking this crap anymore. and of course, its the weekend so its 4x harder to get what I need.
I wish I'd have known - I'd have called ya! You know I would have.
Anti-biotics are a bitch...They can be so agressive sometimes you just feel like you want to deal with whatever comes your way. Trust me though...An infection can be anything froma mild fever that goes away to full blown E-choli. Trust me on this one. I've had that shit twice and I've NEVER been so ill in my life!!!!! It's the sickest I've ever been and I'll tell ya - I was so ill that I don't remember the first 2 days of those damned infections. I was on morphine because my body became septic and I hurt all over. Couldn't control the shakes from the fever and had tons of blankets on me and couldn't get warm.
You'll be fine...just get yourself on something other than Bactrim...that stuff is nasty.
Demerol and Morphine are my friends
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I know what you mean about withdrawls for pain killers. I have a real long history with Migrain headachs. I would get them so bad I wouldn't remember going to the hospital until after they shot me up with Demerol. I'm in the Air Force and the doctors just hand out pain killers so I have been on everything know to man to kill pain. And because of taking all the pain killers over the years I have built up a strong tolerance to them. I would get 100cc's of Demerol and go back to work. Morphine doesn't do anything at all to me. I'm now stuck with the powerful pain killers just cutting the edge off of pain for me. Oh well what are you going to do.
Sorry to hear about the nasties there. Thats no good.
That stent should help out... my sister had one put in last monday and its helpin her out lots too..... she has a kidney transplant back in Jan. and things werent workin quite right.
I cant say that i know your pain, but i sure have seen it through my sister so i hope that you feel better soon and get everything workin right again.
Definatly change anti-biotocis.... that shit IS nasty!
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its been ahile but heres the update. I stopped taking bactrim. the doc said I could just go off the antibiotics all together. unfortunately, the pyridium gave me a migraine and the ditropan made me blind. no lie, blind. may cause blurry vision, my ass. so I couldnt take ANY of the meds they gave me. the stent came out wednesday. when they said there was a tube in me, I pictured like a 5 inch tube. I didnt realize it was closer to 18". that thing was like a garden hose! and pulling it out your pecker is no fun. thats the strangest pain Ive ever had. luckily, Im all better now and back at work. My job is trying to fire me for being sick so thats another hurdle. They are trying to deny my old FMLA claim that they already approved 1 month ago. then they are going to add up my sick days under FMLA that they denied and then mark them against me and fire me for attendance. the only thing stopping them is my call to my state senate rep and my anouncement that I will be filing a complaint to the dept. of labor and then retaining an attourney. I told the in plant nurse that she would be sued in addition to the company. that kind of sent them scrambling. I dont really care to be honest. I made alot of changes to my life while I was laid up. I realized that I can change things and Im going to. my only gola for work is to keep my job untill I get back from Puerto Rico in mid June. after that, I'm out. they can fire me or whatever. Im still going to sue though.
I've neverheard of Pyridium giving headaches, but it does give me a stomach ache.
Ditropan I couldn't take because I always felt like I was dying of thirst.
Glad to hear you're getting better!
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Been there, done that. Pissed out a gravel pit's worth after they'd broken them up.
Ocean Spray Cranberry juice is your friend. Not the sugary crap that most companies put on the market. I go through a litre a day. Don't ever let yourself get dehydrated unless you want a repeat performance.
Severe pain does have a way of making you look at things differently doesn't it.
Good luck and take care of yourself.
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Cranberry juice does wonders for the urinary tract. Definitely look for the 100% kind, a lot of companies put in sugar to mask the tartness, or add grape and apple juices for the same effect, which are little more than sugar anyway. If the taste annoys you as you get used to it, I've found white cranberries to have a less harsh taste than the red.
Last edited on Sat Apr 30th, 2005 11:33 pm by lil duratec
Dear god in heaven! I can't even begin to pretend to know what pain like that must be like. Really sorry you had to go through it. You've got my best wishes man
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