Sonuvab....! That HURT!, Kidney Stone Options

[markb]

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) Yup. Not pretty. Woke up with a little pain. Half an hour later it was 6 on a scale of ten. Half an hour after that I called my Doctor & suggested they squeeze me in, which they did. On the 20 minute drive to th office, the pain escalated to a solid 9 & I had a VERY solid grip on the wheel of the 914. By the time I saw the Dr. (an hour & a half after my call) it had scaled back to a 7 & holding. He did the poke & prod thing & told me to go downstairs for lab work. Another half an hour & they're taking blood & urine & the pain has scaled back to a 4. By the time I get to the pharmacy for vicadin, the pain was pretty much gone. I call the Cap'n to fill him in, and that I hadn't decided yet whether I was coming in to the shop or not. He calls back a few minutes later about our normal lunch order, and I told him I felt good enough to head down, & go ahead & get me a sandwich. I get to the shop at 1pm & eat lunch. The pain is about a 2. Eat & then go to work on the black car for a while. Cell phone rings, it's the Dr's office, blood in the urine sample, let's do a CAT scan. I get the # for the lab, and they can get me in at 3. It's 2 now. It's a 45 minute drive to the Lab from the shop. I head out on the hiway, & the lab calls on my cell phone, the appt is at 2:45, not 3. OK, I can still be on time. Meanwhile, the pain starts back up. By the time I get to the lab, it's back up to a 6, & rising. They get me right in (after a huge dent is taken out of a credit card, I hate deductables). They get me right into the machine, and by the time they're done having me scanned by the cats, the pain is back down to a 2 again. They tell me to wait for the scans, & to take them to my Dr. I had no idea they were gonna give them to me, so I sat & waited. Thankfully the pain stayed down. Get the scans, head back over to the Dr. The Nurse says to wait, & the Dr will look them ove with me. Dr sits me down & shows me this little speck that's the kidney stone, & shows me how far it has yet to go before it exits my bod. He also tells me it's gonna hurt some more before it does finally exit. By this time I'm pretty sure this is not gonna be a fun week for me. To shorten this story some (I know, too late) I'm drinking water by the gallon, & am so tired of peeing you can not believe. Dr. told me if it hasn't passed by the end of the week, call him. This is definately not gonna be fun. Soooo, I'll get to decide in the morning whether to go in to the shop & try & get some work done, but I'm not even gonna play the hero. I hate pain. If it gets over a 7 for a half an hour, I'm headin' home to the vicadin. Wish me luck, and a painless passage. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)