Kidney Stoned in the ER

Kidney Stoned in the ER

Went to bed on Monday night feeling fine, then woke up around 12:30 a.m. with an “awesome” pain in my side. I tried to tough it out until the next morning as I don’t like to use the ER unless it truly is an emergency. After a couple of hours of pain and nausea “stuff”, we went to the ER to find out that I had a kidney stone. Amazing how something so small can bring a man to his knees.

Anyway, got me some happy meds until we’ve “moved on”. Looking forward to creating more blogs about Glacier and not blogs like this!

UPDATE: After over four days of “no stone” I opted for surgery. I’m home now and doing well. Thanks for all of your prayers and well wishes!

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4 Comments

  1. Glad this struck when you were in town instead of far up a mountain trail away from that ER. Feel better soon!

  2. wow, as we would say down here in Texas, No bueno! You’re right, it’ll drop you to your knees faster than you can imagine!
    Connie Hopkins

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