My Surgery

At 2 am on Sunday morning Dallin took me to the emergency room because i was in extreme pain and I was really sick I couldn't keep anything down! They were giving me a ton of morphine and zofran through my iv but I still couldn't keep half of a saltine cracker down. So they decided to keep me in the hospital. The doctor decided that something needed to change because I was too sick. So at 12:30 yesterday I went into surgery they were able to remove the kidney stone but my kidneys were very infected and my left ureter (the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder) was swollen shut so they had to put a stint in to keep that tube open so that the kidneys can clear out the infection. which means I am on bed rest for TWO WEEKS!! they originally said 5 days but that has now changed to two weeks! I am half way through the first day and I am already going crazy! I am still in a lot of pain but it is a different kind of pain. If anyone has any movie or book suggestions let me know! I am seriously open to suggestions! I am bored!!

Update

I have a Kidney Stone And so I have been in a lot of pain It started on October 10th and then I was feeling a lot better so on Tuesday of this week Pam, Dutch, Dane and I went out to lunch at a really yummy restaurant and I was still feeling fine until about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning I woke up in extreme pain I thought it was food poisoning or something like that but when it kept getting worse and worse I realized it was the same thing I had been experiencing a week earlier. So I knew it was a kidney stone. The pain got so bad that I was throwing up because I hurt so bad!! I have a really high pain tolerance so that is really unusual for me. I called my doctor at 9 that morning and they asked if I could get there by 9:15 I said yes and I jumped in my car and drove there (I had wanted to find someone to drive me but I didn't have time and they had to rearrange the doctors schedule to fit me in because I was an emergency so i didn't want to miss that appointment) When I got there my doctor asked if I had driven myself he was surprised when I said yes and he told me that I either needed to find someone to come and take me to the emergency room or they were going to call an ambulance. I called mommy because she was in town that day. Dr. Clark gave me a shot for pain and some nausea medicine. I was finally able to relax a bit and mommy came to get me. Dr. Clark had already called the Emergency Room to let them know I was coming so when I got there they were waiting for me so I got to go right back. They started me on an IV because I was really dehydrated. And they did a CT scan which was actually pretty fun because at that point the Morphine that the hospital gave me had kicked in so I was feeling pretty good! I still hurt but nothing like I had been earlier. The urologist who was on call came to see me. and he set up an appointment for me. I am required to take a Medical Leave of Absence so that is what I am doing just trying to rest and feel better. I have been told so many times that this is worse than Labor and I believe it I am in so much pain I can't stand it! I would hope Labor is not this bad I have never described my pain as a 10 on the pain scale but on Wednesday I was so far past a ten! SO that is about the only thing happening in my life right now!!

Life has had its ups and downs lately! I am now certified as a Tele Tech so basically I sit in a room and watch 3 moniters with 18 patients heart rates on each one and when I see a problem I pull it up on the fourth computer screen and measure out the rhythm to see whats going on and I alert the nurses of any significant changes! I like it so far! I still work an the floor as a cna but now I do both so my shifts are split between tele tech and cna! It is a nice break and I get paid more to do it which is nice! and my boss called today to tell me she is going to put me on tele tomorrow so I don't have to work on the floor on my birthday! And she wanted to know if I would be willing to give up most of my weekend shifts which I would be ok with!

I woke up this morning to snow here is the view out my window right now!! it has stopped

snowing here now it is only in the mountains!

It is my birthday tomorrow Dallin and I are going out to dinner tonight I am so excited I love going out to eat!

On monday I finally got around to decorating my bathroom it is so cute! I found on pinterest (I love pinterest) an idea to cover a magnet board with fabric and then stck magnets on the back of your makeup and it makes a good storage place so I did that and it turned out SO cute then I had leftover fabric so i made curtains to match! Here are pictures! It turned out so cute and I finally have a good organized place to store my makeup!