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“Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.”
– Dwight Schrute, The Office
If I were able to pulverize my own kidney stones, I would be doing just that right now instead of talking to you.
4 AM Saturday morning found me writhing in pain and it found David groggily wondering why his wife was suddenly hyperventilating in bed next to him. A visit to the ER confirmed that I was in the throes of my second experience with kidney stones.
What have we learned from this experience?
- Emergency room doctors are really good about taking your word for it if you’ve had kidney stones before. Doing labor breathing and rocking back and forth in your chair goes a long way to convince them of your immediate need for morphine.
- Morphine makes all the terrible awful pain go away. But it makes me a little nauseous. But the pain was making me nauseous, too, so pass the morphine, please.
- Thanks to my friend who had extreme morning sickness this past year, I was quite familiar with the names of the anti-nausea drugs they gave me: Zofran and Phenergan. I felt so smart. Thanks, Becca!
Tomorrow I will tell you all about my first encounter with kidney stones and why stones always remind me of Ronald Reagan.
A joyful heart is good medicine! Love you and hoping you feel better soon!!
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Hope you're feeling better. When Coty had kidney stones in Cameroon, I thought his pain seemed a lot worse than anything I'd ever gone through in labor. Morphine was definitely his friend!
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Kelly,I have suffered with kidney stones for 18+ years. When Katy was 5 I had surgery to remove one that would not pass. At that point my urologist did a urine study and found a high citric acid level. He said that driking lots of lemonade made with real lemon juice would help to keep the stones at bay. That was 9 years ago and I've only had a couple of stones since then. Prior to this I was having them at least once a year.So drink lots of lemonade. I go through about a quart of lemon juice a week.Susan
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