This morning and throughout the day I felt uncomfortable. Most of it
was the kind of burning feeling that comes with either being really
dehydrated or peeing blood. Neither of those were the case but it
was definitely a kidney stone kind of feeling. Yesterday I think
another dust-sized piece of kidney stone came out but I didn't think
too much of it. Until this morning. My goal was to just drink a lot
of water and hope for the best. But nothing happened while I was at
work. I was able to ignore my uncomfortableness for the most part.
Today there was make-up test time to start the day, followed by a
State Assessment, and then a MAP test in the afternoon. It wasn't
nearly as bad as yesterday or the day before or the day before.
There were only a few kids during the make-up time and I was able to
sit on one of the back tables rather than stand. The two full-class
tests were uneventful. One kid on the MAP test only had part of a
question load so I got to hit a couple buttons and fix it, but that
was about it.
After the last test one of the second grade teachers had some stuff
for me to do to help with the statue museum. Cutting some stuff and
typing up a list of the famous people and which kids were playing
them. We apparently had an assembly today but I didn't find out
about that until I was prepared to do the statue museum stuff, so I
did that instead. I'll catch the next assembly.
With the rest of my downtime throughout the day, I scanned and edited
pictures for the sixth grade slideshow. I got a baby picture for the
other sixth grade teacher along with pictures for five more kids. I
only got one slide made but I made progress at editing other
pictures.
Shortly after I got home I passed another big chunk of kidney stone.
I'm assuming it is part of the recent stone because it looked kind of
broken, but it was still the size of a normal kidney stone. At least
normal for me. Thankfully it was lacking any sharp crystals. I
don't know if those were shattered during the lithotripsy or if this
stone just didn't have any to begin with. I'm wondering if maybe the
sharp crystals are calcium and having taken calcium almost entirely
out of my diet for awhile caused me to form stones minus the
crystals. Although the crystals could also be the oxalate, so I
don't know. I do know that even though I thought I had passed all
the pieces, it turns out I hadn't, making the stone even bigger than
I thought. And, my uncomfortableness passed along with that chunk of
stone. I'm glad it happened in between school and the theater.
Tonight at the theater I knitted, read most of the latest issue of
National Geographic and an old book of poetry (The New Kid
On The Block by Jack Prelutsky)
I got at school because the library was getting rid of it. Most of
the poems are bad but there are a handful of good ones, and I like
the old illustrations. Once again, I hit a wall shortly after eleven
o'clock but somehow managed to make it to one o'clock. I spent quite
a bit of time on the other side of the upstairs sitting on the desk
that is in the dark. The dark was easier on my tired eyes.
Tomorrow I don't have to be to work until 11:00ish. I would prefer
noonish but it is certainly better than nine o'clock.
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