Well, I had a fun start to the new year. On New Years eve, I went to the ER, thinking I had a kidney infection, which is something, sadly, that I am used to. Well, I get to the ER and was hurting so bad that I could barely walk from my car to the ER doors, and I have never hurt that bad before. Skipping the boring bits, they did a CT scan of my kidneys, just incase there was something else going on, besides the kidney infection (which I did have). Well, they decide to keep me over night so I could get fluids and a couple rounds of strong antibiotic, when I get to my room, the ER doctor informs me that he found a 2 inch stone in my left ureter right where it meets the bladder..... Great..... This is a good time to point out, I have never had a stone before, so, my first one, I went big I guess. After being removed, it was found that he could not find my ureter (the stone passed overnight I'm guessing because it was completely in my bladder at this point)and so, I am now sitting here with a tube in my back because the ureter was still not flowing. This coming Tuesday, they are going to see about getting it open and flowing again from behind the blockage. Sounds fun eh? I will say, I hope anyone that reads this had a better New Year than I did, and I am sure that there are yet others that had worse, and for those that had a worse New Year, I truly do wish them the best.
