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Posted by: Jon Henke on Wednesday, May 11, 2005

I've been offline for most of the past 24 hours, but for very good reason. Tuesday, I went to my doctor to find out the cause of some abdominal pain I've been having. Since I have a history of prosatitis (despite being only 30), we assumed it may be a recurrence of that. He gave me a prescription, but when I tried to pick it up, the pharmacist told me it would be $277...or I could wait till Wednesday, when they would check with my doctor to find out if there were less expensive medications.

So, I took a Tylenol PM to help me sleep through the discomfort. It worked until about midnight, when I woke up in excruciating pain. My wife woke up our son, helped us dress, and took me to the hospital where the emergency room nurse took one look at me gasping in pain and did the only thing she could.

Paperwork.

After that was over, they quickly moved me back to a room, pumped me full of demerol, and some anti-nasuea medication (I'd been vomiting, too) and got me stabilized until they could do a CT scan. Turns out, I have a kidney stone.

Since the diagnosis, I was pretty much on a cycle of: 1) sleep, 2) woken by a doctor to discuss the problem, 3) pain begins to return, 4) call nurse for another dose of medication, 5) in the 10-15 minutes it takes them to get me the medication, pain returns full-blast, 6) get medication, 7) get woozy, 8) get back to sleep for a couple hours.

I'm at home now, and waiting for the thing to pass. In the meantime...Percocet.

There are quite a few things I want to blog, but my absence may have to continue for another day or so. Presumably, the world will soldier on without me.

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It will be hard, but I hope that we can manage.

And I also hope that you feel better soon. Keep up the good work here.

Written By: Aakash
URL: http://uis.blogspot.com

Mend well, and quickly.

Written By: David in AK
URL: http://

Don’t forget the strainer!

Here’s to a speedy recovery. Before McQ drops from blog fatigue.

Written By: Galen
URL: http://galenslog.typepad.com

This too shall pass.

Written By: joe shropshire
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Ouch!, See what messin’ with those damn seals will get ya!!!!. I hear passing those stones feels like giving penile birth to a barbed trebble hook ;)
I hope you have a speedy recovery.

Written By: mark m
URL: http://

My sympathies. Here’s hoping that it goes smoothly and quickly.

Written By: Ted
URL: http://rocketjones.mu.nu

Wait. You’re younger than me?

Whoodathunk?

Hope you feel better! And if not, get plenty of that demerol. It won’t make the pain go away, but you simply won’t care.

Written By: Sharp as a Marble
URL: http://sharpmarbles.stufftoread.com

It’s about as bad as pain gets and no matter what, it’s just relentless. You flop around like a fish and they make you wait a long time to get medication. Supposedly this is to weed out the junkies who fakes stones to get morphine.

Because I had never had morphine before, I couldn’t imagine jumping through all these hoops just to get one shot, but after I got the needle the stones passed and Hoo-boy I get it now.

Anyway, you’re going to feel a heck of a lot better real soon. Hang in!

Written By: spongeworthy
URL: http://

I’ve been there twice now and I know it’s awful. The best advice I can give is to drink beer. Lots of beer. The more you urinate, the faster it’s gone.

The good news is that you’ll probably never have any pain worse than that.
The bad news is you’re likely to have a second one. They seem to come in pairs.

Good luck and let the morphine drip!

Written By: Rob
URL: http://www.bighracing.com/blog/

Yeah, been there, done that. Ouch.

Nothing you can do about it that you haven’t already done...hang in there.

Written By: Joe
URL: http://www.cadillactight.com

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

You’re younger than me too, Jon, although not by much. I’ve never had a kidney stone, although birthing three kids (one without any drugs) should count for enough to allow me to sympathize.

Written By: Wacky Hermit
URL: http://organicbabyfarm.blogspot.com

I wish you a speedy recovery.

Your situation is why they make Percocet.

Written By: LASunsett
URL: http://poli-yy.blogspot.com

One of my friends got diagnosed with the same thing this week. Hope you get to feeling better.

Written By: zach
URL: http://zra.livejournal.com

Thanks for the kind words, everybody. It hasn’t passed yet, but the pain has sharply decreased. It’s just a wait and pee game, now.

Written By: Jon Henke
URL: http://www.QandO.net

Wait. You’re younger than me?

Whoodathunk?

Hope you feel better! And if not, get plenty of that demerol. It won’t make the pain go away, but you simply won’t care.

Written By: John
URL: http://phentarmine.t35.com/

http://jenny.forumer.pl/

Written By: Luciene
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