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Going Another Round with pain
Aug 22, 2010
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Going another round with pain...
by Carmen M. Dill on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 1:35pm
As I stated before, I am the type of person that when I read about someone being sick all of the time, I am like "enough already." This unfortunately keeps happening to me and I will just say this --if you don't want to read my trials, block me or delete me NOW. No harm no foul...
On Thursday, August 19th (my sister's birthday) I was working a short day and when I got off of work I had planned on doing some last minute errands for Brittanee since she was moving back to IU on Friday. Life doesn't always turn out the way we plan...so I am learning. I worked 8-1:30 and I remember telling someone how excited I was about seeing Britt's new apartment, just going to Bloomington in general, driving Terry's van, etc. A few minutes before noon I started having this excruiciating pain in my lower left side (does this sound familiar from last month's trip to the ER), and it kept getting more and more intense. From noon til the time I left I kept making periodic trips to the bathroom thinking I had to use the bathroom but nothing happened (sorry TMI). By the time I left work at 130 I was near tears. When I got to the car I immediately called my doctor to see if I could be seen. By the time I drove home I was crying I mean really crying because the pain was so intense. I passed out when I got home, my mom called an ambulance to come and get me.
A nice, old man (EMT) took care of me in the ambulance. He tried 4 times to start an IV but guess what he was unable to. I must say there is road work all around my neighborhood being done and when they took me down the street and through a bunch of gravel while this man had a needle jamming into my hand was not cool. Other than that the ride was uneventful and I was coherent. I had two very nice nurses --Lisa and Heather. The doctor, Dr Nunge, was first rate as well! At first they kept saying they thought I had diverticulitis...then when they did blood tests, urine test, and a CAT scan. Dr told me he then thought I had passed a kidney stone and now am experiencing bad kidney infection. I have 3 meds to take and so far I am still in pain. Not quite as nauseous right now--thank God.
I didn't get to help Brittanee move in after all, my mom helped her. They did take several pix for me, but just wasn't the same. :( Hopefully will get to see it soon with my own two/four eyes!
Now here goes the part where I rant--first of all, I had the same pain in July and it was dismissed as "female issues" and I can't get an appointment for the OB doc til Nov! Secondly, the cardiologist did tons of bloodwork on me--a lot involving kidney function and the like--would this not have shown on the results? I think this is truly kidney related but I am thinking I still (possibly) have a stone--the reason I say this is because I have had several before and this pain feels eerily similar. I am supposed to follow up with my family doctor this week, won't be able to do that til Thursday.
~~~~~~~~~DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT SURGERY RELATED~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
