and some days you are the bug. Today was a bug kind of day. DH had to work overnight and wouldn't you know, I started with another kidney stone at 3 AM. It woke me from a sound sleep and it was bad. Now stupid me, I have some pain meds from my surgery that I never used but do you think I thought to take any? You would be correct if you guessed no. At 4:30 I woke my oldest son to tell him I was getting in the shower and if I wasn't out in say 1/2 an hour, please check on me. I sent a text to my husband which he didn't realize he got after all why would I be texting if I was asleep? #2 son got up and sent to school before hubby got home from work. By 7 AM I was on my way to the ER.

The normal paperwork ensued. I was so nauseaous I wondered if I needed to grab their garbage can. The nurse tried two times to start an IV and ended up blowing out the vein in my left arm. That is extremely painful but thankfully distracted me from my throbbing gut. After the second non-productive stick I asked for another nurse who had my IV up and going in a matter of seconds. *sigh* a minute after that I got both anti-nausea and pain meds. I could now finally think and string together a coherent sentence. The X-Rays showed that my 5mm stone that was on the last x-rays was now missing or had shrank to 2mm. Since they don't shrink we allowed as how I probably passed it. That leaves just one small stone thankfully. Needless to say I will not now be going for the lithotripsy.

The long and the short of it is I missed what was supposed to be my first day back from work. I came home and slept since I didn't get much last night so my day was pretty much a loss. I did go and pick up my son and 2 of his friends from football practice and they made me laugh on the way home. They are a funny group of guys.

We just got home and I called for a couple of pizzas and I am chilling for the rest of the evening.

The piece at the top is the Desert Star piece I posted about yesterday. I finally got it to upload today!