Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Surgery update

My doc told me before surgery that the x-ray that he had me do on monday showed no kidney stone on the right side. But if its not a calcified stone then it wont show up on the x-ray and but it would on a CT. So they shot some dye up my bladder and into the tube between my bladder and kidney, then into the kidney. They didn't find any stones. But I still have some in my left kidney. The bad thing is that I am still having a lot of pain down in that area.. SO now we are kinda back at square one. Now I am trying to make appointments with my OBGYN to get my ovaries looked at. On Friday I have my internal ultrasound to see if my ovaries are enlarged still. They seem to be playing tag with each other on that factor.
I was really upset yesterday because after the surgery my bladder was in a lot of pain. The nurses gave me Percocet, Demerol, Morphine, and it didn't touch the pain... so then they gave me a suppository that was a narcotic. It got the pain level to come down from a 7 to a 5 for about 20 minutes and then it was back up at a 7 when we were driving home. I brook down and told Matt that I am so tired of people not listening to me.. I am tired of having to take Percocet and not being able to do normal things.. like drive, or exercise. And I am really tired of the way the meds. mess with my brain and my eye sight etc. PLEASE PRAY for Matt and I as we keep pursuing this. Thank you all for your prayers and thoughts!

4 comments:

Erin said...

I hope that they can give you some answers soon. I will be keeping you in my prayers. Hopefully this will clear up soon and you can get off the meds.

Erin

Andrea Elliott said...

I am so sorry that you are having to deal with this! It seems like a never ending process... but it also sounds like you are starting to get the help you need... I hope that everything goes well on Friday. Shaun and I will continue to keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

Anonymous said...

I'm definately keeping you in my prayers! So sorry it's "slow going" but I'm praying hard for you!
Love, Karla

BrenV said...

Are you still in pain? Did the surgery do any good? Are the kidney stones gone now?