Kidney Stones
Sung to the tune, “Cover of the Rolling Stone”
Well, I'm a big tough guy,
But thought that i would die,
When I got sick the other night,
I thought, "I'm in trouble!",
I was bent over double,
And my wife was sick with fright.
She threw me in the car,
Sped right to the E.R.,
And they did every test that is known,
Oh, I cried like a baby,
Cause there ain't no maybe,
The doc said I have a kidney stone!
Chorus:
Kidney stone,
Oh man, it's a pain like no other,
Stone,
Geez Louise! It's hurtin' like a mother!
Stone,
Gonna go right out of my mind,
If I don't pass this kidney stone!!
Now I do like kisses, and I love my missus,
But right now I don't need hugs,
Just pour me glasses of water,
And pass me that vial of drugs.
Now I never thought,
I could be this distraught,
This sure is no way to live!
I sit here drugged and loopy,
With eyes red and droopy,
And they got me pissing through a sieve!
Chorus
Normal urination,
Would bring such elation,
If I could get this damned thing to pass,
Being sick is such a bummer,
To hurt like this is a pain in the ass.
I've got a busy life, with the kids and the wife,
But right now it all must be postponed,
This pain in my gut,
Really kicked my butt,
So, for now, I'm just gonna stay stoned.
Chorus
© Donna Daugherty 2004
Well by now most of you have heard about how I ended my trip to Minneapolis. So I won't belabor that point. As to how this week went, that brings us to the other meaning of today's edition of MF.
I've spent most of the week in various stages of altered functionality. I was given two different prescriptions of percocet (5mg and 7.5mg). I used these alternately to reach a level of comfort from the pain I was experiencing without becoming a total zombie.
At the beginning of the week I would take two 5mg to get a decent night's sleep. This had some moderate success. However, when I took a single 7.5mg dosage it made me loopier than the two 5mg (just ask llbear, he witnessed this transition over the phone). My goal was/is to go longer and longer periods of no medication. In this I think I've reached some level of balance.
Some people have wondered how I got thru last week. Simple, two Aleve and two percocet every night. And I did discuss my stones, I just didn't want to bore anyone with repeating it over and over. So, I wasn't as stoic as it appeared, I just didn't tell everybody.
Going from here let me lay out what happens next. Of all the methods available to handle removing kidney stones the best option for me is lithotripsy.
Some of you may wonder why other options are not being used. Due to the position of the problematic stone and clustering of surrounding stones, this is the best and safest method for me.
As to why, I have had to wait, that has to do with my taking of coumadin/warfarin an anti-coagulant. I have to be off of it for at least five days so it can clear my system. Otherwise we don't want to think about what could happen to anything else that may be in the way of the shock-waves created by the lithotripsy.
So, by next Friday hopefully I'll be passing the debris.
On with the games!!
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