Hail Stones - Kidney Stones - Happy Spring!

Today is the first day of Spring and it has been a nutty weekend.  The weather has just been messed up.  This past weekend I had to keep telling myself that I was in San Diego and not Scotland or something like that.  This winter has been so wet and chilly - I am just sick of saying, "But we need the rain".  The video is hail on my deck but check it out.   Crazy or what?  I must say though that even on a rainy day with hail - my deck looks pretty.  Today however was not so pretty.  I woke up at about 7am and at about 7:15am I had some intense pain.  It was craziness and so painful that I threw up and it made me cry.  It killed me to call in sick because I want to do so well with my new job but I knew it was not going to pass.  Actually about 15 years ago I has a kidney stone so I had a strong feeling what was going on.  I was after 20 minutes of intense pain I was tired so I slept a bit more.  I woke up at 11am to more pain so I knew I had to get to the Urgent Care center.  I lucky that if this was going to happen that it happened now as I have health insurance again.  It is a new health system I have insurance with so I was nervous in addition to being in pain.

At Urgent Care they were able to get my pain under control and then do a cat scan which confirmed - yes I have another kidney stone.  I so hope that I can pass it.  The pain comes in waves and is awful then subsides for an hour and then is awful again.  Everyone was nice at Urgent Care and it really made the best of a bad situation.  I really don't like being sick and times like this I get super scared.  It reminds me of the challenges of being alone.  I have friends but they all work and so I really have to depend upon myself a lot.  Plus whenever I am sick I get super needy - I always have.  I texted a little bit and that made me feel comfortable having friends wish their support to me.  I spoke a short time to my mother.  I don't like her to worry about me but just needed some comfort.  I chatted about 15 minutes with Oscar and his voice was very comforting to me.  He feels awful that he cannot come help me which made me feel good.

So today is the first day of Spring and also it is Rick's birthday.  I am happy Spring is here but I gotta pass this stone.  I am sure I will.  I know I will.  2012 is still way better than 2011.  If this happened last year, I don't know what I would have done.  The medicine has made me relaxed and drowsy so for now I hope I go to sleep and dream of water falls, rainy days, and ocean waves so that when I wake up I will piss this damn thing outta me.  Wish me luck!