So, the girl child was in pain Tuesday night for reasons we couldn't figure out. Then she started throwing up over the pain and being diabetic, that is a really bad scenario for her.
To the hospital we went.
I had flashbacks of labor because that's exactly what it looked like and she was sick the entire ride there.
They were phenomenal at the hospital. We were already getting seen before they had anything other than her full name and birthday.
The instant panic from the ER room was that she had an ovarian cyst or that something was twisted and blood flow was inhibited. Ultrasound proved differently. Then it was on to a CT and that seemed to indicate that she had passed a kidney stone at some point during her hospital stay.
Her right kidney and tubing were inflamed.
Which makes sense since the two doses of morphine didn't touch the pain for her at all.
They released her within 7 hours.
The second the pain eased up, she told a sick joke that even I wouldn't repeat. It was literally the first thing out of her mouth. Then she couldn't stop laughing while I continued to ask her what was the matter with her - like I always do when she says something no one on the face of the planet should utter.
Keep in mind that this is the same child who put on one of those huge over-sized, built for an amazon, ugly gowns for an exam at one endocrinology appointment...climbed up on the table and hugged her knees to her chest and started to slowly rock back and forth like a crazy person just to fuck with me because I was the only one in the room... I love that kid...
Since being home, she's only taken one ibuprofen and it's like she's good as new.
Kidney stones...no fun. Never had the "pleasure" but I've had friends that went thru it. Mine...ahh...mine was the gall stones. The poor organ was so packed tight with them that the dye they needed to inject wouldn't go in. There were over 100 of the buggers in there....
ReplyDeletePoor kid!!! Glad she is home and ok.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has kidney stones this week! Do you think they've been channeling? Lainy may have passed one, but we've got a CT scan for Monday. Definitely there's a stone in the right kidney, but it's not bothering her. The left kidney is bothering her and the stone has either been passed or it's stuck in the tube between the kidney and bladder. Her pain and bleeding has significantly decreased so no ER for now. Follow up Thursday.
ReplyDeleteI want to know what your daughter said. My daughter just says whatever she feels to medical personnel and they just laugh because she's such a peanut and she's telling the medical staff where to go and what to do when they get there.
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ReplyDelete"Glad she is home and ok." - subjective, based on the recantings of the Mother figure neither offspring can be ear-marked as ok or normal. The child is ok in my books (true and perhaps the general consensus, but not from what general society would define either of these as.) (but F society and their morals ... refer to earlier blog on this.
" and it's like she's good as new. " as a new what???
the child is a riot in my mind and I would probably love to hang with either of them (my type of peeps).
Mother figure please in case the rage of someone commenting on your off spring has blinded you with fury know that this is all meant with the sincerest adoration
LadyStyx - That's HORRIBLE! I've seen kidney stones and gallbladder stones take down a 220 lb man, with ease.
ReplyDeleteThank you, AmyK. She's back to her old self.
Pop and Ice - She had to say, "I'm NOT pregnant, I'm a virgin." 50 times to everyone around because that's the IMMEDIATE question at hand.
Which, I'm not sure what the point is - they'd never do a thing without doing a pregnancy test no matter what anyone said.
So, true to form - she started making comments about how she's carrying triplets...because she can't help herself.
She didn't have enough fluids in her to do the ultrasound the normal way....they had to use the wand...
That would be about the time when I looked down at her and said, "Stop looking for new and exciting ways for us to go through disgusting things together. I thought we had them all covered before!"
...said as she has a pillow wedged under her and some woman was putting a condom on a probe.
We basically got stared at for laughing.
but who cares, it took her mind off of it for a half a minute...
Then it was over just like it started - and THANKFULLY, there were no other sightings on her CT.
I'm not 100% sure that it was a kidney stone, but it did look remarkably like the pain of child birth and my ex-husband dropped from a kidney stone and it had him curled up on the floor.
It was their best guess, but they said without straining the samples and actually SEEING the stone - it was their best deduction and that there was no way of telling what kind it was or why it was formed or if there should be any restrictions on her food intake to avoid them because there are so many different types.
I don't envy you. It's hard to watch your kid go through that much pain. I'm sorry about your daughter and hope they pass unnoticed like with my girl.
Their only real recommendation? TRUCKLOADS of fluids to make it go faster.
Erin - she's okay, honest.
Ponti Mython - as new as a slightly sarcastic teenage girl who makes inappropriate jokes at really wrong times.
I have NO DOUBT that you would really like both of my kids. I'll let you meet them one day.
that doesn't sound like much, I'm sure - but I could name, on less than two hands, my friends that I've exposed them to...
They are hilarious and I think you would really appreciate their humor.