Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Brian and the Kidney Stone

At around 9 am, Brian was feeling some pain in his stomach.  He was in a meeting, so he just tried to ignore it, but it got worse and worse.  He called me at 10:10 from work and said that he was having severe back pain and he was headed to the ER.  His co-worker drove him and I meet him there.  The ER was not busy, so they were able to get him right in and see him.  It took about 30 minutes for them to give him some pain medicine to calm it down.  They took him to CAT scan to see if the stone was in his Kidney's or not.  After that, they didn't see the stone and said since the pain medicine made him relaxed, that it passed through to the bladder.  We were only at the ER for less than 2 hours.  That is a first!!!  They sent us home and we stopped for lunch and then I took him home to sleep.  He still had to strain for the stone, so the picture below is the size of the stone that caused so much pain.