Saturday morning! I’m up and taking in a soccer match, and I’m having a light breakfast of cottage cheese and a waffle.
The kidney pain returned.
For the third day in a row.
I texted my sisters about which hospital ER I need to go to under my health plan. They texted back that I should call a nurse on my health insurance card, and that I should ask about urgent care.
A phone call later, and texts from one sister that she’d be over to pick me up, and I was on my way to UCSF’s urgent care.
It took a couple of hours, but I finally saw a doctor, after giving a urine sample. She confirmed that I had a kidney stone (blood in urine) and had me have a blood draw to check that everything was fine. She also prescribed flomax for my condition.
An hour later, I found out that it wasn’t, my creatinine levels were high compared to a recent test in July. So I was sent across the street to the hospital’s emergency room for an IV to try to get those levels down, and to get a CT scan on my kidneys.
The waiting room time was about 4 hours, and then another hour or so lying on a hospital bed in the hallway near the CT scan room.
I was given a saline drip, then brought in for the scan, and then got a shot of toredol in my IV.
I finally had the doctor arrive to tell me what was up, that the stone should pass on it’s own. She gave me a prescription for some other pain med (which I may not need) and this time they gave me a strainer and sample container for the stone when it passes.
After I was discharged my other sister picked me up and we picked up some cranberry juice and chicken broth from Safeway. That’s when I remembered that I forgot to pick up my multi-tool from the security desk, which was confiscated when I arrived to the waiting room.
We went back to pick it up, then went home, where my sister prepared some of the broth and cranberry juice for me.
I feel fine now, probably better once I get the new prescription.
Thanks again to my sisters who I never listen to about health matters, until it does matter.
