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For those who have been following the saga, my kidney stone surgery is finally here. Tomorrow, at 7-730 am central time I will be having my uretoscopy. It will be a 2 hour surgery, since they have to go after stones in both kidneys and the one that has been trying to push free. Hopefully it won't be too bad. By noon I should be leaving the hospital and on my way home, where I will be drugged up and lounging around. So fun fun fun.
Afterwards I will be doing a bit more lounging, for maybe a week and then I can actually get back to doing things, which is exciting. This makes me very happy and you have no idea how thrilled I am about the prospect of being able to move more than the little bit I have been. I can start exercising and doing things around the house again, finally feeling less like a lump than I have been. This is all to the good.
It might also help my writing, as the pain meds have made it a bit hard to focus. I have done some work but not as much as I had hoped, since pain has made me want to avoid thinking and such. So it goes.
Well, in less than 24 hours I should hopefully be stone free. This is a good thing in my mind and I highly approve.
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I hope
All goes well and you aren't out of things for too long following the surgery, Heather.
Maggie
Best wishes Heather
You'll be in my prayers and I'm sure in the prayers of your other friends and fans!
Ole
We are each exactly as God made us. God does not make mistakes!
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Thank God for Modern Surgery
I know you're going to be uncomfortable for a while, but hopefully this will take care of things. Many say that the pain caused by kidney stones is as close to child birth pain as it comes. I think that gall stone attacks may be close. Get well, and no more stones, understand.
Portia
Good Luck
Good luck.
Mark
A Kidney stone veteran.
Good luck
Sadly you had to have the stones for this kind of surgery :(
I mean, ultrasonics could not get rid of them and so it goes.
I hate general anesthesia and have had 5 surgeries in my life (yes 3 were of my own choosing but the 2 that were not .... )
May the Tao empower and guide you :)
Kim
Good luck and a have a fast
Good luck and a have a fast recovery. Took my nephew 4 days, but they just went after one.
CaroL
Good luck, hope you feel
Good luck, hope you feel better soon.
If they start making motions towards a bathtub full of ice - RUN.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
The ultrasonic stuff -- lithotripter? --or snip snip?
The less invasive the better.
Best of luck.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
It's amazing...
...how things smaller than grains of rice can generate so much pain. I've passed stones several times in my lifetime, and I know just how debilitating that pain can be. Hurry to health and slow for everything else, aye? Much love and prayers to you, dear one.
Love, Andrea Lena
So hard to write when your um stoned.
I just really do hope that you feel much better when you are un-stoned.
Gwendolyn
Surgery Tomorrow
OUCH! Best of LUCK
May Your Light Forever Shine
Best Wishes
Best wishes and I hope all goes well.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Good... er... Best... um...
...Break a leg? Maybe one of the doctors', if they mess up?
Seriously, though, I hope it goes well for you! ^^;
-Liz
Successor to the LToC
Formerly known as "momonoimoto"
I thought you meant
The op! Good luck anyway - perhaps if you spoke nicely to the surgeon he could...
Angharad
I'm not sure I would trust VA
I'm not sure I would trust VA surgeons to do that operation. I think I would prefer someone who had some modicum of skill.
Heather
We are the change that will save the world.
One of Many
I am one of many hoping and praying all goes well as planned.
JessieC
Jessica E. Connors
Jessica Connors
Keeping you
in thought and prayer, Heather.
It's a low risk operation, but you're too important around here to take chances!
Take time to recover; we'll be here.
Nicole (a.k.a. Itinerant)
--
Veni, Vidi, Velcro:
I came, I saw, I stuck around.
good luck, hon
praying all goes well.
Kidney stones veteran.
Here's a good luck wish from another kidney stone veteran.
I had ultra sound in my uretas. It's a fairly simple op with a thingie up my cudwidgie. But before that, passing them was the most debillitating pain imaginable. The lady urologist in Cork University Hospital Ireland told me that she'd had four babies and two kidney stones and the stones were infinitely more painful.
I could well believe her!!!
Good luck and live long.
Bev.
XXZX
I will pray for your speedy
I will pray for your speedy recovery.
Get Better soon
Get better soon.
Rami
RAMI