Saturday, April 8, 2006

So, I tried writing this entry a couple times, and screwed it up a lot, so I just gave up. But maybe third times the charm, and this will work out. Here goes.

So at my Doctor's Appointment, which I made for several different reasons, I learned that almost all of the things bothering me were no big deal, and nothing to worry about. Except for the one thing, which was a little discomfort in my dick, which I figured was most likely a urinary tract infection or something like that. I figured it wasn't an STD because I've barely had sex in the last year or so, and also there was no icky discharge going on. Well, the Doc (who was super cool), told me that I had little calcium crystals, that look like diamonds, in my urin, and this was what was hurting me. She also told me this probably meant that I have a kidney stone. Whoa. Did not excpect that. So she told me to drink lots & lots of fluids (which I have) and to give a slip to the girl to make an appointment for an ultrasound.

Ok. Now I figured that they'd be calling me that day to tell me when the appointment was for. They didn't. Friday morning I called them, and got this really bitchy receptionist who had me repeat everything I said 3 or 4 times, before telling me that my appointment had been made for May 1st!?! I hung up on her. Called Mark. Calmed down, and called back, and got a different receptionist, who was just as freaked out as I was about the news, and put me on hold while she went to find out what the fuck was going on. When she got back she let me know that May 1st was actually the earliest that the place could get me in!!!!

Ok...so I'm freaking out because this pain in my privates, which has been annoying and discomforting, might possibly become a horrifying trauma akin to childbirth (as several people told me), and I can't even confirm that I have a kidney stone. What if something else is going on in there? I don't know. So I called the place on one of the forms they gave me about the ultrasound, and they found an opening for me on April 18, which was still 11 days away, but was a lot sooner than May 1st, so I took it. That one's in Canton.

I went to work, but I made sure I had a lot of water on hand, and I let my coworkers know what was going in. My pain increased, so I called this nurse hotline at the place I usually go, and they told me to take some AZO or Urostat, drink lots of Cranberry Juice & Water - go to the Emergency Room if I felt any pain in my kidneys, or come into the walk in clinic in the morning if my symptoms worsened. My symptems worsened just before I left work - horrible pain in my dick. It was like someone had shoved the lead form a mechanical pencil into my dick. It was not cool.

I went to Kroger and got Water, Pain Killer, the AZO & Urostat, plus Boost, Plates and some other stuff. I picked Mark up from work and we went home where I ate and took the Urostat. Soon after, but before I believe the meds took affect, the pain cleared up, and hasn't returned. I only took one dose of the meds, which is clearly out of my system now, but the pain is still gone. I don't know if maybe I passed the stone, and that's why I was in so much pain, or if I only passed some more fragments. I never felt any pain in my kidneys, which is rare, I guess, in this situation... Maybe I only had those little bits inside me and there was no kidney stone, and it's over. Maybe there was also a urinary infection. I don't know. I'm just gonna continue with the water and cranberry juice. And I'm going to keep the ultrasound, so I can know what's going on in there. And hopefully everything turns out ok.

I think I might have hurt my back lifting some boxes of books earlier though (ouch). I was digging out some Star Wars books I put into storage. Now that I have all of the movies on DVD, I thought I'd read the prequel era stories, and watch the dvds along with them. Though I decided on skipping the Old Republic Era, as that part of the saga seems to be fleshing out, and I'd rather wait and see how that develops first. So... that leaves me with stories set less that 100 years before Episode I; you can see a listing of them here.

Now, if my back hurts from lifting boxes, I have no idea how I'm going to know if my kidneys begin to hurt because apparently that's where my kidneys are. This could be really bad. erg.

   posted by Bald Jason at 08:38 PM
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