I'm Stoned

So, finally something happened to me that was blog worthy. Wednesday I was coming home from pack meeting at the church (I am a Den Leader!!) and as I was driving home my back started hurting. Our church is about 20 min. away and I was dropping of a couple boys and then I dropped off another leader so it took me a while to get home. By the time I got to our apartment I was in so much pain. It started out feeling like I pulled a muscle in my back to where it felt like something inside of me had exploded. Good thing Clint was out in the parking lot when I got home because he had to carry Emmi upstairs because I was in so much pain. We started walking towards the door and I started throwing up. I was throwing up forever and finally I had it under enough control to walk inside, but as soon as I got inside I started throwing up again and screaming that I hurt SO bad. I was almost in hysterics and Emmi was crying because I was scaring her. Clint gave me a blessing and then we went to the ED. (Clint will be mad at me if I call it the ER. It is the Emergency Department, not Emergency Room.) Anyways, we get there and I run to the bathroom throwing up and Clint checked us in. We got in the room and they hooked me up to an IV and took some blood. They came in and told me it sounded like a Kidney Stone but they wanted to get a CT Scan just to make sure. Sure enough I had a little kidney stone traveling down my tubes. So they loaded me up on pain meds and sent me home. That night was a nightmare and I was up all night throwing up and didn't get to sleep until 5:30. So anyways...I am felling a lot better and I don't think I have passed the stone yet because they have me peeing into a strainer to catch it and all I have gotten is the piece that you see in the pictures. Clint and I think it is just a piece of it because at the hospital they told me that it was about 4 mm. And the piece that I have is NOT 4 mm. Hopefully there is more inside of me because if I was in that much pain over that little of a thing than I am a HUGE wuss. Anyways, that was kind of a funny little story...and PS having a kidney stone hurts worse that having a baby. I swear, but then again I had a epidural so.... :)

My Kidney Stone. Yes it is that tiny little speck
of a thing on the paper.















Yes I know that it is only as big as the tip of
that pen but it hurt SOOOOO bad. Like I said,
I hope there is more coming out because I feel
like a wuss crying over that little thing.