Craig is back in the hospital again. He started complaing of pain in his left abdominal area, flank Monday night, but thought it was tummy upset. Pain kept getting worse so Tuesday morning I dropped him off at the ER while I drove to Miami on a business related errand. Turns out he has 3 kidney stones, a 3 mm stone in his bladder, an 11 mm stone still in his kidney, and an obstructing 8 mm stone in the lower third of his left ureter, that's the tube that goes from the kidneys to the bladder for those that don't know. I went and sat in the ER with him after I went to Miami and made the delivery, but left about 6 p.m. last night because I had to pick up a couple of things at grocery that I had forgotten to put on the list, and then had to do a couple of things at the house because we are going to get hit with some pretty nasty weather from this late season hurricane. Yes, it has reached hurricane status, category 1 only thank goodness, but still is putting out some bad weather conditions. The grocery was slammed with people panic buying because of the hurricane, so it took me almost an hour to pick up toilet paper, our usual 12 pack of San Pellegrino water, and some deli fried chicken for my dinner last night.
Craig has had kidney stones several times previously, but it has been at least 6 to 7 years since the last one. The urologist still hasn't been in to see him but, at the size they are, he is probably going to need a laser procedure to break up the 2 big stones, and a stent in his ureter to make sure he passes the remainder of the fragments they aren't able to grab easily. He's going to be a bear when he comes home because the stent itself causes pain. They will give him narcotics for the pain, but he still complained about pain last time even with the fairly high doses they gave him.
I came home after he ate his lunch today because the weather is supposed to start deteriorating fairly quickly now until midday tomorrow.
