KIdney stones and things that just GENERALLY hurt!!

Today I am blogging about my kidneys....boring you say? Don't decide that until you finish my post. Since the end of August I had been having this somewhat nagging pain in my side, sometimes it was bearable and others, well it hurt alot....not knowing what it was I went to the doctor(ER Doctor), he told me he I had a kidney infection and sent me home with an antibiotic.
Well the pain continues, for about another month. So I go to my doctor (doctor #2) and he says he thinks it could be diverticulitis....even I know he is way off base, because I know what that feels like...a differnt pain altogether. So I go back to my gynecologist thinking, well maybe it is female pain....again no luck. So I went back to my family doctor and told him that I knew what it wasn't, he sent me to get an x-ray and when the results came back I found out that I had a 7.8 mm. kidney stone which would require Lithotripsy, a method which uses sound waves to crush the stones This was in November. The lithotripsy machine is a machine that is high in demand, but there are only a handful of them around, so my procedure wasn't able to be scheduled until December 28th. December 28th(Monday) came I had the surgery, and all seemed to be well. But on Wednesday, I woke up with this pain that felt alot like a UTI, the pain progressed through the night and through to morning and became so bad that I found myself puking in the toilet. Katie took me to the ER, where they x-rayed me and told me that I had a 6-7 mm stone in my urteter. This had to be impossibe right?? That is about the size of my previous stone, and that one had been blown to millions of tiny little pieces.
It appeared that the tiny little sand like particles had all gathered in a little spot in my ureter, and decided camp out! After about 6 hours, being poked & poked with needles, and fed really good pain dissapearing medicine trough my IV. they let me go home. Thank you Katie for sitting with me while I whined and cried..oh and threw-up!! I love you!!!