I got to spend Sunday night and Monday in Avera McKennan
having a kidney stone removed. We had a great weekend - lots of things
accomplished - family over, and got some really cool haircuts. I had laid down
for my afternoon half hour nap - I hate that part - and woke up with what I
have come to know as a kidney stone attack. I have had and will have kidney
stones my entire adult life. Not a huge deal, although this one was, so I just
do what I have to do. I knew this was a good one immediately, as I was kneeling
over the stool calling dinosaurs almost immediately, a sure sign of the old
stone.
Matt and Jen hauled me in to the ER for treatment, which
was timely. I wanted to nip this right away and get it out so I can start
treatments this week. They ran a CT scan, confirmed my belief it was a stone,
an 8 mm beauty, and admitted me to a room. I spent the night at the hospital on
morphine hoping to get in on a removal in the morning. I had morphine as needed
every hour – so I developed a pattern of morphine, sleep for about 15 minutes,
wake up with pain, pray a rosary, morphine, sleep for 15 minutes, etc.
I prayed to the Holy Family for strength throughout the
night. It was actually not too bad, I just settled into the pattern. I have had
this stone surgery before. I was scheduled for surgery on Monday, and got to
move there around 09:30 AM. I was not the first patient that day, so one has
some delays. As I lay on the gurney waiting to get put to sleep, I prayed
especially hard to have this stone episode behind me right away. Option number
two would have been to blast the stone in a tub with ultra-sound waves if this
surgery did not get it out. I did not want to go through that yet too.
To make a short story long, when I came too out of the
surgery, they told me they got the big stone out. That was truly a touched by
God moment for me. I have become far less focused on what I actually want and
trying to go with God’s plan, but I cheated a bit here and wanted this big
stone gone. They hurt. God answered that pray, and I was touched. Thank you for
that, God.
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