Today, I was having a pretty good day until about one o’clock. I started having some pain in my lower back, so I thought, “I must be really slouching,” so I kept stretching to make sure that I was sitting up straight. That didn’t help, and then the pain moved into my guts. The discomfort started to really build, and I called Amanda to confer. She said that I should go to the doctor just so I would have some peace of mind that it wasn’t anything serious. I’m really glad that I listened to her, not because it was anything too serious, but because if I had just gone home, we probably would have ended up in the ER.
The pain became unbearable. I started to tear up in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, and by the time I actually saw the doctor I had lost control and was just crying in pain. He said that it was almost certainly a kidney stone.
I don’t think that I have ever been in that much pain, at least not in constant pain. He said that he could give me a prescription for some Percocet, but that if I wanted to leave my car at the doctor’s office he could give me a shot of Demerol. I was desperate and asked for the shot.
It was the biggest shot I think that I’ve ever had, and it was the first shot that I ever got in my rear end. As I waited for the Demerol to kick in, I was pacing about the office, still whimpering. Amanda and the kids arrived, and I was looking forward to going home as soon as the pain abated, but it just kept coming. I felt a little warm and fuzzy, but still in a lot of pain, so they gave me another shot. That did the trick.
The Demerol lasted up until just a few hours ago, and I followed it up with some Percocet. I think that I may have already passed the stone, because I’m pretty much pain free right now. We’ll see how things are going in the morning. They say that passing a kidney stone is worse pain than child birth. I don’t know about that, but it sure sucked big time.
