Romancing the Stone....

So, after being diagnosed with kidney infection I took antibiotics for a week. Felt worse. Back to the doctor who ordered a CT scan and said, "three millimenter stone lodged in your ureter" go to the urologist. The urologist said, "This isn't a kidney stone, it's a calcium deposit, but this too shall pass." And gave me some prostate medication (no lie) to open up my ureter and urethra, and I stayed home for two days and a weekend and felt awful as I strained everything that left my body. Felt better and went to school...because TAKS won't test itself. Back to the urologist on Wednesday who took a different kind of xray and said, "nothing's changed, we're going in after it."

And when I woke up, my mom told me the news. No stone. My doctor had already gone back to work.

Back to the urologist and my primary care physician next week. I'm going to chalk this up to age, take a vicodin and move on.

When I woke up I had a dose of phenegran and some other anti-nausea med. Then my back spasmed--in the same place that all of this started three weeks ago--and it took 1 dose of liquid vicodin and three shots of morphine to make it stop. It's done it three other times since Friday. Any suggestions?

I'm just going to go to my doctor's office and refuse to leave until he tells me what is wrong, or tells me that I'm crazy and it's all in my head....which at this point would at least be a reason.

And that picture is of the procedure that was done on Friday. I was knocked out, but no wonder my back hurts...those stirrups are high! I don't know how you mommas did that!!