another post? already?
Aug. 18th, 2025 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
BUT. When one spends three hours in the ER, one has much time to ponder.
I didn't really ponder that much, because I was in pain, but y'know. It ended up not being anything super serious; I woke up earlier than usual on Sunday with some lower-right-side abdominal pain. It was annoying, but whatever. But it didn't go away, and it kept getting worse, and started shifting around to my side and back. Nothing I did helped, and by late afternoon it was probably a good 7 on a 1-10 scale. Mom was like, Try Tylenol (did that in the morning), and Dad was all, Let's get you to the ER. Soooo off to the ER we went, just in case it was appendicitis.
Surprisingly, the visit wasn't too awful? Like, everyone was nice, the wait wasn't too long. The longest wait was for the results of the CT scan, I think. Everything else happened within what I would consider reasonable periods of time. Obviously, if I had been higher on the pain scale, I may have had a different view on things, or if I were bleeding all over, but y'know. The staff were all very polite and relatively chatty which was a nice distraction.
Long story short, not appendicitis, but a kidney stone. Not had one of those before, or a CT scan before, so that was... fun? They gave me the good drugs for the pain, IV fluids, antibiotics because my body is weird (the CT scan was like, you might have an infection in your kidney? and I came in with a fever, but the blood/urine tests were negative, so they were being careful), and something that helps dilate the urethra to make it easier to pass the stone.
Which seems to have happened overnight/early morning? I was up a lot in the night, but by morning is when I finally was able to sleep comfortably (cuz they didn't give me any overnight painkillers? why?). So thankfully, the pain is basically gone, just a little sore, and very tired. Which saves me a little in med money, cuz now I don't have to take the painkillers, anti-nausea meds, or the dilation meds, just the antibiotics.
Is it sad that I'm mostly annoyed that this is throwing off my "work this week and reassess on Friday" plan? And that I'm more likely to stick it out at the job for a while longer because of how much I had to pay for the ER visit copay? Sigh.
Anywho. Dad and I finished Legend of Zang Hai and have started in on Beyond Evil. So far it's very intriguing; we're about halfway through and I am very much uncertain as to where we're gonna end up.
No work again tomorrow, yay? But mom wants us to do stuff for her business and I'm like... can I please stop. I have never WANTED to do this work, and I still really don't want to. She'll make these comments about "that's why you get paid the big bucks," and I'm like... no, I really don't.
Anyway. Back to sleep, because wow this whole event kicked my butt. Oh, wait, first I must take my once every twelve hours antibiotic, cuz I sure wasn't gonna do it at 1:30 when it arrived at the house, because I am not waking up or taking pills in the middle of the night, thanks.