Monday, September 8, 2008
The kidney stone experience we don't want to repeat.
This turned out to be a little more than your "run of the mill" kidney stone experience. By Saturday night Brian spiked a fever, which was still there Sunday night after 24 hours of antibiotics. After talking to the Doctor, it was decided to get him to the hospital. By the time they got him to a room and hooked up to morphine he was in excruciating pain. It took an hour for the morphine to start working. Finally, sleep came. The next day the Doctor did a procedure to remove the kidney stone for him. After seeing it, the Doctor said he would not have passed it on his own anyway. He is now home and recovering. What an ordeal!! This is one of those experiences that you can't help but question God and say, "Why, why does he have to experience all this pain?" This is the kind of question that we may never know the answer to. But we can rest in God for the strength we need to endure. I am reminded of the word picture I heard one time that says our lives are like a beautiful tapestry that God is weaving...the only problem is we can only see the underside...God can see the beautiful tapestry being created from the top. He knows what is best and it is times like this that our faith is being strengthened.
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Ouch. Lord willing, that was your only stone between now and heaven. Glad it's out and you're on the mend. No more medical blogs this year!
Good grief!
I am sorry to say, I am among the small club of women to have had a kidney stone. I greatly empathize with Brian, and I'm sorry to also say to all you women who think it equals labor, my kidney stones we're WAY WAY worse than labor. Though I did not have the pleasure of morphine - I would have gladly accepted if they had offered. And because I'm sick, I'm very interested in the size of the actual stone and if they know what caused his. OUCH!
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