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A wild UE appears :O
Anyway… As some of the blog readers may have known, my side’s been bothering me since the beginning of December. I waited a couple weeks and it still didn’t go away, so I figured I would make a doctors appointment after New Years, mainly because I had plans on New Years Eve for the first time in my life and didn’t want to miss them. So, Long Story Short, on New Years day, the host of the party I went to had to drive me to the ER because my side began to hurt unbearably. In the ER I was forced to roll around on a stretcher for at least three hours before I got any type of painkiller, finally being given morphine.

After that I had to drink the drink that you have to drink for a CT scan (editor: barium sulfate? That’s a lot of “drink”, btw, just to make sure no one missed the emphasis on drinking it versus any other route. enema. ::giggles::) and they also drew blood/took a urine sample to see what it could possibly be.
I had a theory that it may have been a kidney stone but of course with my luck, the CT scan came up clean, the blood test looked fine and the urine test was also clean. So I was prescribed 12 vicodin to get me through the weekend just in case the pain came back.
I was told to make an appointment with my primary as a followup as well, so I did.

Later that week I went to my primary, and he was under the impression also that it could be a kidney stone. However he told me to just drink a lot of water and didn’t prescribe me any painkillers in case it was because “You’ll get addicted to them” (idiot). He also had me take another urine test, which ended up once again being clear.
He also suggested a kidney doctor to make an appointment with, he highly recommended him even. So an appointment was made with said doctor. Mind you this is still the beginning of January; I was unable to get an appointment until February 11th, three days ago.

So I’ve been pretty much going to work and living life as normal with the occasional annoyance of my side twinging here and there, but I did notice one change: there began to be little black specks in my urine. Now this completely confirmed it for me; it had to be a kidney stone. I started overdosing on cranberry juice trying to dissolve the “stone” that was inside me, making sure I’d be able to pass it asap since the only painkiller I had left on me was 2 vicodin from the ER visit. The night before the eleventh I even passed a slightly larger, crescent shaped red speck.
So I went to bed that night, or rather, I should’ve been able to go to bed.

That week I had come down with a cold. My nose was sniffly, but that was the worst of it. I had actually thought my cold was improving but nope, that night I kept getting a fever and the chills and was pretty much tossing and turning. I was up all night and unable to sleep, though I did have one nice dream about Kevin and I being at a Burger King and cuddling after ordering food. (don’t ask) (editor: but I wanna.)
Anyway, enough of that. Finally I get to my appointment which was for 10:30 in the morning, around 9:50. My body’s weak, I’m sick as a dog and barely able to walk. I check in and get called back and asked for another urine sample. I give it, however this one was small because I was so sick I forgot not go to the bathroom before I left.
The nurse puts me in a room around 10:25 to wait for the doctor. That doctor didn’t get into the room until 11:20… my appointment was for 10:30, that’s almost an hour and in my opinion completely unacceptable. So he gets in, pushes on my sides (“does this hurt?”), goes through the “turn your head and cough” thing and says “I don’t think it’s a kidney stone, we HAVE found some red blood cells in the urine sample you gave us however that’s normal with a cold” (uh, since when?) He also had the nurse take my temperature (it was 100.9) and tried to write off the pain in my side on that.
I quickly informed him that it has been bothering me for MONTHS, and that I would like an ultrasound, to which he replied “if the ct scan didn’t find anything the ultrasound isn’t going to find anything” and tried to rush me out of the room again. I replied to him “I’m sorry, but part of this appointment’s description included an ultrasound and I want one to know for a fact. I don’t want to have to go to the ER again.”
So I was given an ultrasound, which was, sadly, clean.
After that horrendously awful kidney doctor appointment (what a douchebag), they gave me a cup and told me to give them another urine sample in two weeks. I’ll do it but I really hope they find something, because this is ridiculous.

So that’s the story of my life for the past two and a half months; incompetent doctors and not knowing what the hell is wrong with me. Since then I’ve been pretty sick and at home.
Had to call into work this weekend but did have a doctors note. Unfortunately my supervisor called me today and informed me that nobody told him I had called in for the entire weekend and thought my call in was just for Saturday. I had to tell him the entire story all over again about how I told the morning supervisor on Saturday that I had a doctor’s note for the weekend. So if I somehow get in trouble for that I will raise hell, otherwise I honestly don’t care.

A few pretty good things have happened recently though. I finally got my new debit card in after I had to cancel my old one due to a Hungarian trying to order a plane ticket with my old card’s information… somehow. Goddamn identity theft. I ordered the Kevvy-cat (editor: did you just call me “kevvy” in public? -.-;;) some valentines gifts and have been chatting with him all day this Valentine’s Day. I love him so much :) <3 Happy Valentines Day baby, and I hope everyone else is having a good one as well.

Thank you to all who had the patience to read this rather long post.
Until next time! -UE-