I’m planning a caffeine detox. I can’t decide when to do it though. Maybe when Christmas break starts. I need a good three days to get over the headaches. Anyone want to join me? We can all be pissed together.

We are leaving on a jet plane. I’ve got my “airborne” and my Nano…I’m set. We are gonna have fun. Pray for my kids to be good. We’ll post pictures as we get them.

From Wikipedia:
Some thinkers have theorized that guilt is used as a tool of social control. Since guilty people feel they are undeserving, they are less likely to assert their rights and prerogatives. Thus, those in power seek to cultivate a sense of guilt among the populace, in order to make them more tractable. This was a theme in Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer.

I hate that people use guilt as a way to get you to do things. I think it is really crappy and I am really working on not allowing that to happen in my life. I feel as though I have been controlled into thinking I need certain approval, and therefore performed out of guilt. No more! I am no longer performong out of guilt!

We are home. Christian has two stents now. The hope is that they will keep things open enough to allow any other stones that were missed or may turn up to pass relatively pain free. I use that term loosely since I really have no idea what it is like to pass a kidney stone, especially through a male part. In 10 days we return for more x-rays and hopefully find out a course of action to combat kidney stones. My only response now is “drink more water”.

Back to Cedars today. This time Jared went and it is killing me. I’ll try to state it simply:
1:30 am
Christian”Mom, I’m hurting on my right side.”
Me: “Ok, I’ll get the Tylenol.”
Him: “OK”

6:30 AM
Me: “Are you ok?” (He’s still asleep)
Him “No, I’m still hurting.”
Me: “How much.”
Him: “A 6-7.”
Me: “More Tylenol?”
Him: “Ok.”
Me: “Do you want me to call the doctor?”
Him: “Yes.”

8:30 am
Puking and in pain…on the way to the doctor.

10:00am
Ultrasound shows obstruction on right kidney. A Cat scan is scheduled but not until 1:30.

1:30
Cat scan

2:30
Cat Scat shows another kidney stone on the right. This time low, almost to the bladder.

3:30 Admitted to hospital. On IV fluids and Morphine…hoping for the stone to pass on it’s own.

And we wait…

Sorry that wasn’t so brief. Is anyone else sick of this yet? My poor baby.

After another long day of waiting, (thanks to the DWP worker who cut the power cable and then tried to jam it back together) we got in and Christian got those darn stones out. Yes, multiple stones and one imbedded in his kidney. I declare, it is never simple with the ‘kidney from hell’, as I have lovingly decided to call it. Another stupid stent and another trip down in a couple of weeks. But, I must say my worries are few compared to the family next to me whose daughter’s spine was severed by a hit and run drunk driver -and will never walk again. God always places someone like that next to me when I am at the hospital to remind me that there is so much more than me and my little world. Her name is Jade.

It appears that kidney stones are related to a) diet or b) kidney malfunction issues. I am guessing that Chrsitian would fit into the second category. We will find out for sure in the next day or so. I am hoping that the doctors will have mercy on him and just scoop the darn thing out rather than making him pass it. We’ll see.