"Rocking" My Kidneys, Not the Gym

As you knew from my last post, I had big plans to step it up and not allow anything to get in the way of my fitness and health goals! Well, life can have a morbid sense of humor at times, and decided that I had to wait to start my journey again - against my will!  I went to the ER yesterday when a small back pain grew into the most excruciating feeling all over my midsection, from under my hip bone up to my lungs!  Within 30 minutes of the pain starting, I was curled up on the bed and unable to move or speak.  I have never felt anything remotely close to that type of pain!

My husband rushed me to the hospital, where they quickly checked me in and proceeded to play musical chairs on my arm with the IV needle.  Finally they started pumping some pain meds into me and after a cat scan and some blood tests, they determined that I had kidney stones - ONE IN EACH KIDNEY! I didn't win the mega-millions lottery, so my body thought it'd make it up to me by granting me double the stones, double the pain.

One of the three marks made by the med student fishing for my vein...

I've since read online that the pain of kidney stones is worse than child birth, and this was confirmed by a facebook friend who has had both...so I guess I'm now ready for anything life can throw at me!  I'm currently towards the end of a cycle of percocet, so while the pain is pretty bad right now, my mind is clear enough to actually write an update post!  I won't be so lucky in about an hour...

So now my main goal is to drink as much water as I can until the pain on both sides goes away.  While I do have some fruit that I've been snacking on, it's not really a balanced diet that I'm on, and don't even mention doing something like running to me right now!  I think that if I could ignore the pain enough to do that, I'd probably get lost and disoriented with the meds that I'm on...

So, as soon as these stones pass, I'll get back into the healthy lifestyle again - hopefully it'll be sooner rather than later!