This morning I had my appointment with my new urologist. My first
impression is that I like him. My last one was a nice guy but I was
never fully comfortable with him. And his suggestions were a change
in diet and exercise, which I did and just made more kidney stones.
So I have moved onto a second opinion. To deal with the current
kidney stone I am having a lithotripsy on Friday, and I have to be at
the hospital at 5:30AM which sucks. Lithotripsy is when they
identify where the stone is and then blast it with a shock wave to
break it up. I will have to be knocked out for this and according to
what I've read, this is to prevent any discomfort and because it
takes awhile and they don't want me moving around. My throat is
still a little sore and I've been a bit coughy tonight so I am hoping
that doesn't become an actual sickness by Friday because I would
prefer not to push this back anymore. I want to get it over with and
move onto figuring out why my body is way too good at making stones
in the first place.
I was still feeling fairly good after my appointment so I ended up
going to work. All day I felt tired and hungry and somewhat
uncomfortable, but it never evolved into actual pain. Which allowed
me to have a fairly productive day. I cut out the test tickets for
state assessments, organized them into classes and specific tests,
and got a start on organizing them further based on the seating chart
for each class. Not a bad start. I also had second grade reading
groups and a few classes in the lab.
After school I went and got the stuff I have to to drink tomorrow to
clean me out before surgery. It says it is lemon flavored but I
think I am going to buy some Gatorade or something to mix it with.
Had I been thinking I would have bought that today when I was getting
my Powerball tickets but I can do it tomorrow when I am buying my
tickets for Saturday. Normally I would do that on Friday but that
obviously won't work out this week.
Because my diet will be restricted tomorrow, and possibly the next
day, and because I was feeling relatively alright today, I finally
had the second half of my Chipotle burrito for dinner tonight. It
was nice having real food for once.
After dinner I had the yearbook meeting. Which ended up being a
pointless waste of thirty minutes. It ended up only being me and the
mom I have been working with. The two people who didn't need the
meeting since we already know what we're doing. We needed the other
parents who expressed interest in helping to actually be there but
not even one of them showed up. So we talked about a few things and
then called it quits.
I am hoping I am still feeling decent tomorrow so I can get some more
work done before Spring Break. Normally I wouldn't necessarily be
looking forward to a week off but this kidney stone has been kicking
my butt and I could really use a little vacation. Preferably one
free from pain. I'll feel better about it though if I can tie up
some loose state assessment ends at work beforehand though.
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