Kidney Stone Removal Surgery- donations!
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Wow! I can't believe you let them break up my souveneir kidney stone! I had already picked out a setting for the necklace I was going to make with it. Since you're recuperating from a "procedure" (never cared for that word in that context) I'll cut you some slack and won't inform you of just what a selfish person you are until you're feeling a bit better. The visual of the doctor blasting kidney stones on a screen like the old Asteroid game makes up for any misgivings. Pew pew pew. Be well. 
Thanks everyone! I'm glad for it to be done. Today I can barely move but that's normal for the day after surgery! I think things should be back to normal within a few days. Well at least I hope they will since I have to return to school Monday and work Tuesday!
AS for you, Civil. I am still saving the stones for you. Doc wants me to urinate into a strainer and keep the stones so he can research them and maybe put me on a diet or meds. So maybe you can make a pretty necklace out of the fragments after he's done with them! hahah.
I don't remember who said this but someone had mentioned they had heard about a pill you can take to dissolve kidney stones. So I asked my surgeon yesterday and he said that only work for uric acid stones, not calcium oxlate, which is about 95% of the kinds of stones people get. Of course it could never be that simple for me!! hehehe
Wow! I can't believe you let them break up my souveneir kidney stone! I had already picked out a setting for the necklace I was going to make with it. Since you're recuperating from a "procedure" (never cared for that word in that context) I'll cut you some slack and won't inform you of just what a selfish person you are until you're feeling a bit better. The visual of the doctor blasting kidney stones on a screen like the old Asteroid game makes up for any misgivings. Pew pew pew. Be well.
AS for you, Civil. I am still saving the stones for you. Doc wants me to urinate into a strainer and keep the stones so he can research them and maybe put me on a diet or meds. So maybe you can make a pretty necklace out of the fragments after he's done with them! hahah.
I don't remember who said this but someone had mentioned they had heard about a pill you can take to dissolve kidney stones. So I asked my surgeon yesterday and he said that only work for uric acid stones, not calcium oxlate, which is about 95% of the kinds of stones people get. Of course it could never be that simple for me!! hehehe
Awww....see, you make it sound so sordid. You wouldn't complain if someone gave you some ambergris...well, probably. Fun is fun, but I'm glad everything went well for you. What kinda procedure did they do? Was/is there an incision? Did they use a shockwave device? Was there a jackhammer involved? Calcium Oxilate eh? Of course you know that the same calcium compound is what largely makes up beerstone. Beerstone forms on containers used brewing beer. So, what exactly have you been using your kidneys for since you were 16? You may be the perfect woman in the eyes of men with a penchant for the frothy beverage. "My wife? Yeah, she bakes AND she brews. Gosh I love that woman!" I'll....uhhh...stop with the jokes right there before they get out of hand.
Your recuperation period is a great time to do what your doctor told you to do and what NOT to do. Actually the only times in my life when I've followed my physician's advice, has been post-operative. This is not to be bragged about.Take care.
Your recuperation period is a great time to do what your doctor told you to do and what NOT to do. Actually the only times in my life when I've followed my physician's advice, has been post-operative. This is not to be bragged about.Take care.
Good to hear it went well and you're home recuperating. Even though the procedure is fairly brutal to go through, the heal time was always pretty quick for me. By the two day mark I was back to feeling mostly normal with just a large bruise on my back and the pipeworks feeling mostly normal. By the second surgery I figured out buying mass quantities of Gatorade and literally drinking as much as I could consume each day meant I would have mass quantities to help flush the system out. Pretty crazy to see that much grit in the discharge and realize it once was a rock in my body.
Well, good to know I am in that larger bracket of folks producing calcium based stones. Who wants to be in the minority, right? I know at some point I will wake up one morning and have the tell-tale sign of lower back pain and will get my ass to the emergency room ASAP. My stones tend to be monsters and produce full blockage pain which is always pretty brutal. Too bad the things can't be destroyed with a simple pill, life is never that easy is it?
To folks who do not know what this procedure is, picture a fairly large operating room with a 2,500 gallon stainless tank in the middle. Suspended above the tank is a stainless steel contraption they mount you into. You are brought in with simple hospital gown and given an iv and several monitoring probes. They then put you into a deep slumber and mount your nekid ass to that stainless steel rack and lower you into a dip tank of body temp water. I asked for a video and was denied, guess they talk shit or worry about a lawsuite cause I got a big "NO". Since sound waves travel better through water than air it is the best means for them to get them sound waves to break up the stone, your body is mostly water too. Inside the tank is this head that looks similiar to a moveable x-ray head looking thing and once you are out and in the water they place it right up against you back to whichever side has the stoned up kidney. At this point they start pumping mass sound waves through your entire body to break up the stone, the cone of the sound emitter is fairly tight but having to get the stone fairly well pulverized they moved that sucker all around and at different angles. My last surgery I had a basketball sized bruise on my back for weeks, that stone was big and hard and it took them forever to get it to breakdown small enough to pass through the system. So, not only does your kidney and the stone inside get blasted, damn near everything in your lower torso does too.
Fasttrak
Haha I love how you went into detail about the surgery. That sounds about right to me minus being dipped into a water tank. They just took a "ballon" filled with water and put it against the spot where my stones were then sent shock waves through that. They told me they had up to 3000 shocks they could deliver to the kidney until you just start gushing so much blood. 90-100 shocks per minute is what they are allowed to do. Studies show that usually around 2500 - 3000 shocks to the kidney just make the blood spew instead of gradually bleeding. Also, I didn't/don't have any marks or bruises on my back. Only around my rib cage. Picture at the bottom.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my surgeon was late!! My surgery was supposed to be at 2:30 but he called and said he would be late. So instead of 2:30 I didn't even get rolled into the operating room until 4:30 and was in the recovery room by 5:15.
When I got into the recovery room my nurse said how are you feeling? I said I'm in quite a bit of pain, about a 6 on a scale of 10. She gave me more drugs through my I.V then also had me swallow a pill. She said "Do you remember saying your name was April?" and of course I didn't. She said "yeah you woke up and I said hi Amber how are you feeling? and you replied my name is not Amber, it's April!" hahahaha. Got to love drugs!
Doesn't look bad but that shit hurts bad!
I appreciate it as well Fasttrak. Desire, I was never April but once I awoke post-op thinking for a bit that I was Jesus until I realized that I'd forgotten to ascend. Mostly true story. Take it easy young Lady. here, this is your April song:
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By the time you've listened to this all the way through you will be healed and ready to leave the quarry. I Promise.
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By the time you've listened to this all the way through you will be healed and ready to leave the quarry. I Promise.
