So I had an interesting Tuesday night.. I woke up at about 3am with incredible side pain. Had eaten some bad stuff the night before, being Valentines Day (chocolate cupcake, truffles, crackers, cheese - you know, all a good mix) so I though that maybe it was just indigestion. Tried to go back to sleep, didn't work out so well. At about 5:30 I called my friend Ali, who is a nurse, and as I woke her up, she gently told me I should go and get it checked out. When it hadn't gotten any better by 7, I called the 24 hour nurse line on my health card. The woman who answered, told me to call 911 immediately and that she was calling back in 10 minutes to make sure that they were on the way. I called in sick to work, got REALLY scared and had my roommate call 911 for me (when I thanked him later he told me "no problem. I hadn't called 911 for awhile, it was fun!" *hmm*) The EMT
's where on the way. Now in real time it was only about 10 minutes before they showed up, to me, it seemed like 10 hours, The pain had gotten so bad that I couldn't sit, lay or stand without it hurting. The EMT's showed up and checked me out (one was SUPER HOT) and decided that I needed to go to the ER. The ride was horrible, we only went about 20 blocks, but man, it was BUMPY! The hot emt sat in the back with me and told me he thought it was kidney stones.. Now my dad had kidney stones when I was growing up, and my sister Anna got one in December, so I was like PLEASE NO! I know how painful they are. I got checked into the emergency room and of course wasn't seen for an hour and a half.. I know that there are more pressing injuries that what I had, but it had gotten so painful that I couldn't even cry anymore. :(
Finally the wonderful Dr. Chan came to see me, asked me exactly where it hurt etc, and told me she thought it was probably a kidney stone. She then got me hooked up on an IV and a morphine drip.. They pain went away REALLY fast, in fact the world did. I feel asleep for about 2 hours. Woke up to get a CT scan done, which confirmed the kidney stone, was released by 2pm. Now, when I was released I was feeling no pain, I decided that I would walk from the hospital (on 168th St) to the drug store (on 181st St) get my prescriptions filled and head home, It was beautiful, about 60 outside and sunny. I had a great walk in my drug induced haze, walking around, laughing at everything. HA!

Well - that only lasted for the afternoon, now I am trying to pass the stone, drinking lots of fluids, taking the pain killers only when there isn't another choice, *sigh* FYI, if you ever get intense side pain GO TO THE DOCTOR! DO NOT PUT IT OFF! I had side pain about 3 weeks before this for about 5 days in a row... If I'd only gone then, maybe just maybe, I wouldn't be in the pain I am now, or at least I would have been able to avoid the fun adventure of Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning.

Now I am healing in Paoli (suburb of Philly) with my dearest friend in the world... Preparing for a night of the best drink EVER.. Run Skips.. but that's a different entry entirely.