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I thought I had the flu or at worst a UTI

vi edit

vi edit

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This post comes from a hospital bed. Yesterday afternoon I started feeling like dog shit. Got really light headed and started feeling sick to my stomach. Around five I started getting really tired and started having a lot of pain on the right side of my back. Checked into a prompt care to do some labs at around 6:30PM. I'm running a fever of 102, my pulse is about 2x what it is, my BP is about 40 points higher than normal.

I've only got one kidney and some other plumbing issues...which is on the side that I'm having the pain so the are pretty freaked out about and set me up for a CT down at the bigh hospital ED.

Get checked in down there, and I'm freezing my ass off even with 6 blankets over me. While they are starting my IV I procede to puke through 5 puke bins while covering myself and all my blankets and gown in the proceess.

Finally get some drugs in me for the nausea and just have to sit around for 3 hours while they get whatever paperwork done they need to do.

About an hour before the CT they make me chug down a full liter of contrast fluid which is a real treat after what happened a few hours ago.

Get the CT done and sit around another 2 hours waiting for the results. Looks like some kind of blockage.

So I get admitted to a floor around 2:30AM. Wait around till 3:30 to get my IV hooked back up and then try to settle in. Only to have some old woman in the room next to me howl all night saying "Lord mercy me! Someone help me! Please help me!" and then she would vomit every 45 minutes or so.

That goes on till 6:30AM or so. Needless to say I got no sleep. I have a urologist stop in give me 30 seconds of options and then he runs off. I just laid around for another 6 hours until my nephrologist stops in and talks over the options.

So I guess at around 3 or so today I'm going under general anthesia for some diagnostic stuff (cystoscopy and a voiding test) and they might stent me to help out with the pain in my back and look for the stone that didn't show up on the CT.

I haven't really slept since 6:00AM yesterday. Haven't ate since 12:00 yesterday. And now crazy "Lord have mercy!" woman is starting up again.

🙁

Things could be worse though. I guess crazy "Lord help me" woman has to have a foot of small bowlels revomed and has been puking every hour or so for the last couple days after her stomach fills up with digestive fluids. That and she has a crispy case of dementia I think.

So yeh. I don't have it so bad.

Cliffs:
- Thought I had the flu
- They think it's a kidney stone
- I have to go under anesthesia and have multiple things shoved up my peehole
- I haven't slept in 30 hours
- Haven't ate in 13
- I'm cranky 😛
 
Dude, only 1 kidney? You should have gone back while you were still under warranty dumbass!
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Dude, only 1 kidney? You should have gone back while you were still under warranty dumbass!
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Don't take drinks offered to you in seedy bars in Tiajuana.

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You have my best wishes that everything goes smoothly for you. Be sure to update us, so we know eveything is going ok 🙂
 
Originally posted by: vi edit
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Dude, only 1 kidney? You should have gone back while you were still under warranty dumbass!
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Don't take drinks offered to you in seedy bars in Tiajuana.

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lol, good luck though.
 
Yikes! I just did the ER/ICU thing recently and trust me, I feel your pain. 🙁

Hope you heal up fast!
 
Originally posted by: vi edit
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Dude, only 1 kidney? You should have gone back while you were still under warranty dumbass!
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Don't take drinks offered to you in seedy bars in Tiajuana.

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Better yet, don't go to Tijuana. 😉

Hope you get well soon. :wine:
 
Originally posted by: vi edit
I'm going under general anthesia for some diagnostic stuff (cystoscopy and a voiding test)
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Glad you're out when they perform the cystoscopy study...you won't feel the pain.Text

The question is you have to pee for the voiding test and that requires being able to control your bladder, meaning you have to be awake to do this. Correct me on this...🙂

GL and hope everything turns out OK.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Yikes! I just did the ER/ICU thing recently and trust me, I feel your pain. 🙁

Hope you heal up fast!
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He doesn't know pain... he hasn't gotten the bill yet!
 
Originally posted by: vi editSo I get admitted to a floor around 2:30AM. Wait around till 3:30 to get my IV hooked back up and then try to settle in. Only to have some old woman in the room next to me howl all night saying "Lord mercy me! Someone help me! Please help me!" and then she would vomit every 45 minutes or so.
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sounds like some classic sound effects. does your computer in the hospital have a microphone ?

last time i went to the ER with food poisoning, in 2002, i later realized that i had all the pieces in place to test that old theorem about being able to dissolve a penny in stomach acid.

i had the stomach acid, and i had the penny. but i just didn't have the presence of mind to think about dropping the penny in the stomach acid.

 
Originally posted by: moks78
Originally posted by: vi edit
I'm going under general anthesia for some diagnostic stuff (cystoscopy and a voiding test)
Click to expand...

Glad you're out when they perform the cystoscopy study...you won't feel the pain.Text

The question is you have to pee for the voiding test and that requires being able to control your bladder, meaning you have to be awake to do this. Correct me on this...🙂

GL and hope everything turns out OK.
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Yeh. I had this stuff done about 10 years ago to do some baseline kidney functioning and diagnosing. I was awake for both expereinces. I got "warmed up" with they cysto and had my urethra nice and inflamed. Only to have them jam a folley cath up there immediately afterwards, inject me with some contrast die, and then yank it back out. Then I had to do the whole stop pee/start pee thing. If you think it stings normally when you try to stop, it's REALLY not pleasant after having your urethra fully assaulted a couple times prior to doing it. I'm not sure how that's going to work today if I'm sedated.

I'm still waiting for them to load me up and take me to pre-op.
 
Originally posted by: vi edit
Originally posted by: moks78
Originally posted by: vi edit
I'm going under general anthesia for some diagnostic stuff (cystoscopy and a voiding test)
Click to expand...

Glad you're out when they perform the cystoscopy study...you won't feel the pain.Text

The question is you have to pee for the voiding test and that requires being able to control your bladder, meaning you have to be awake to do this. Correct me on this...🙂

GL and hope everything turns out OK.
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Yeh. I had this stuff done about 10 years ago to do some baseline kidney functioning and diagnosing. I was awake for both expereinces. I got "warmed up" with they cysto and had my urethra nice and inflamed. Only to have them jam a folley cath up there immediately afterwards, inject me with some contrast die, and then yank it back out. Then I had to do the whole stop pee/start pee thing. If you think it stings normally when you try to stop, it's REALLY not pleasant after having your urethra fully assaulted a couple times prior to doing it. I'm not sure how that's going to work today if I'm sedated.

I'm still waiting for them to load me up and take me to pre-op.
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I just broke out in a sweat reading that. You should ban yourself for at least a week or two.
 
Best of luck, my friend. 🙂 I've been cath'ed twice in my life and that was MORE than enough for me. I can't imagine what you're going thru. 🙁

Tell you what though; you're a calmer man than I; you write about it all so casually. I'd be f'in this, that and the other thing and cussing the nurse's mom and horse she rode in on, etc. 😀

Get well soon!!!!
 
Yikes!

Sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery vi.

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