After many years of not showing any symptoms of kidney stones, I had an incident.
I was sitting at lunch when I felt the first dull pain. It slowly increased in intensity until both of the people sitting with me noticed that something was wrong with me.
One of them correctly identified it as a kidney stone. She said that I should go see I doctor. I got up and walked to the bathroom to pee.
When I got back to the table, I decided that it was time to leave, so I did.
I passed by my supervisor’s office to let her know what was up, and then collected my stuff at my cube, and left.
Luckily I drove in today.
Unluckily there was a fender bender right in front of the exit of the parking garage. Arrgh.
A couple of minutes of the two cars moving out of the way and I was on my way home.
Since it was midday there was light traffic on the freeway home, but the pain started to ebb and flow, as it does.
I parked in the garage, stumbled upstairs, changed and lay down on my bed.
I got up a couple of times to drink some water and try to get comfortable in sitting and standing positions, but lying down seemed to be the thing I needed to do.
I lay on my left side as I figured gravity might assist the stone’s movement in my right kidney.
I kept having to move every few minutes as what felt comfortable one moment was painful the next, until finally I fell asleep.
A couple of hours I woke up, pain free.
I found the container that I used to pee in when I first had kidney stones and used it. No stone to be found.
I feel okay. I’ll probably go back to work tomorrow, barring any incidents between now and tomorrow morning.
