In other news....

I'm feeling much better. Most days. The bruising feeling on my kidney is gone and now I just have intermittent pain from hydronephrosis (back up of fluid on my kidney). It's caused by a blockage or obstruction. I thought the whole point of the lithotripsy was to break up the stone(s) small enough to pass. And it is. But I learned that sometimes patients get a thing called steinstrasse (literally means stone street) when all the little fragments and debris get backed up in the ureter. It's incredibly painful. But it comes and goes and eventually will go for good.

I had an ultrasound yesterday, too, for my liver. Apparently the last three times I had blood drawn my liver enzymes were elevated. That prompted an order for some imaging and a hepatitis panel. The Hep panel came back negative so now I'm just waiting on results of the ultrasound. It was weird being on the other side of the machine.

Megan had her 4 month check up and is doing really well. She's 24 inches and 13lbs, 20th percentile!! She's come so far from her 2 month appointment where she was still in the zero percentile. She's talking and smiling all the time, sitting up in her bumbo, and she can roll from belly to back. Still can't quite get the back to the belly but she's trying so hard. 

Caleb starts a new pre-school on Monday that should be a little more academically challenging for him. He's just not getting enough where he is now. Brian and I both feel like the curriculum at his current school is too far beneath him and he isn't advancing to the level that he should be for his age. So, new school it is. He's really excited and I hope the transition is easy for him.

Looking for something fun, cheap, and family friendly to do with the kids next weekend. Any suggestions?

Don't mind me, I'm drugged.

I can't post to my blog from work, which is usually where I am when I have access to a computer. Instead, I write blogs and save them as drafts until I can get my hands on the laptop at home. Lately Brian has been getting another certification for work which requires lots of laptop time. I have written, rewritten and revised my blog entry so many times because it's "outdated" that it's not even worth using anymore. So I'm starting over. From home.

I had lithotripsy done on Thursday and I'm recovering well. I had another kidney stone, a few actually, that landed me in the emergency department again a few weeks ago. I was sent to a urologist (Yay! Another specialist!) and he said I was a good candidate for lithotripsy. I was feeling ok and the ER doctor had prescribed me some pain medicine so it was decided that the procedure was non emergent. For two weeks I battled the pain on and off until finally on Thursday I went under anesthesia to have the bugger blasted into a million pieces.

Although there was no actual cutting, I was under general anesthesia in the OR and did all the regular pre-op stuff stuff. It felt like surgery. I woke up in recovery with a throat that felt swollen shut from the airway tube and a lot of pain in my back. All normal but very scary when I wasn't sure where I was and all alone.

I'm doing ok, just sore. Today is better than yesterday and I'm sure tomorrow will be better too. I feel like Mike Tyson punched me in the kidney. It's bruised internally from the intense blasting and made me pee blood. Now I just have to pass all the little particles that are left from the stone, like peeing sand. But I've got some good pain meds so I'm feeling niiiice. Sorry if this post was all over the place, I'm drugged.