My son....

[speedsix]

...praying for rest from the pain and passing it soon...got a friend who's gone through it and morphine didn't stop the pain...that much pain and I'd have to name the little sucker when I passed it!!!

[The Annoyed Man]

Thank you everyone for your kind words. My son is (or was, when I left) resting more comfortably now. He took a LOT of dilaudid and some other "additives" before getting some relief starting in the late afternoon. The stone hadn't passed yet when we left. His urologist says that it is in all likelihood somewhat larger than it showed on the CAT scan.

....pair of plyers....

Yup.............I thought he was going to climb the walls.

Anyway, thanks again everyone. I'll post tomorrow when I know more.

[Oldgringo]

Thank you everyone for your kind words. My son is (or was, when I left) resting more comfortably now. He took a LOT of dilaudid and some other "additives" before getting some relief starting in the late afternoon. The stone hadn't passed yet when we left. His urologist says that it is in all likelihood somewhat larger than it showed on the CAT scan.

....pair of plyers....

Yup.............I thought he was going to climb the walls.

Anyway, thanks again everyone. I'll post tomorrow when I know more.

Beer is not allowed in that hospital?

[Keith B]

Thank you everyone for your kind words. My son is (or was, when I left) resting more comfortably now. He took a LOT of dilaudid and some other "additives" before getting some relief starting in the late afternoon. The stone hadn't passed yet when we left. His urologist says that it is in all likelihood somewhat larger than it showed on the CAT scan.

....pair of plyers....

Yup.............I thought he was going to climb the walls.

Anyway, thanks again everyone. I'll post tomorrow when I know more.

Beer is not allowed in that hospital?

Hospitals have stuff that is WAY better than beer, and legal too. Only problem is they want WAY too much money for it!!!!

Chris, glad he was resting well and as they say, this too will pass.

[Charles L. Cotton]

I was out of town yesterday Chris and I just saw this post. I'm glad you son is doing better and we're praying for him also.

Chas.

[n5wd]

... My son is (or was, when I left) resting more comfortably now. He took a LOT of dilaudid and some other "additives" before getting some relief starting in the late afternoon.

Hitting that button every 10 seconds doesn't help, but it sure makes you feel better! Had an ER doc tell me it would probably be the male equivalent of the pain of childbirth - Nah.. I've carried enough folks with stones in the MICU to know that it's gotta be worse!

Best wishes for your son's rapid recovery, TAM.

[texanron]

Glad to hear your son is doing better TAM!

[The Annoyed Man]

Well we dropped in on him this morning, and my son is looking quite a bit more chipper than when we last saw him. On his bedside table there is a little plastic cup containing a wee stone (no pun intended) about 3mm or so across. He was alternately smiling because he feels a lot better, and raging at the urologist for not dropping whatever he's doing so he can come to my son's room and write the discharge orders. Last night, he thought the urologist was God because the doctor was very accommodating with orders for pain meds. Not so today. I guess that, urologically, my son is a foxhole believer. Ahhh the intemperance of youth.

Thanks again to everyone for your prayers.

[puma guy]

Well we dropped in on him this morning, and my son is looking quite a bit more chipper than when we last saw him. On his bedside table there is a little plastic cup containing a wee stone (no pun intended) about 3mm or so across. He was alternately smiling because he feels a lot better, and raging at the urologist for not dropping whatever he's doing so he can come to my son's room and write the discharge orders. Last night, he thought the urologist was God because the doctor was very accommodating with orders for pain meds. Not so today. I guess that, urologically, my son is a foxhole believer. Ahhh the intemperance of youth.

Thanks again to everyone for your prayers.

Praises that he's better. Great sign he's recovered.

[jimlongley]

... My son is (or was, when I left) resting more comfortably now. He took a LOT of dilaudid and some other "additives" before getting some relief starting in the late afternoon.

Hitting that button every 10 seconds doesn't help, but it sure makes you feel better! Had an ER doc tell me it would probably be the male equivalent of the pain of childbirth - Nah.. I've carried enough folks with stones in the MICU to know that it's gotta be worse!

Best wishes for your son's rapid recovery, TAM.

I ended up in the hospital with a stone that COULD NOT pass, and had to be removed (don't ask how) and my nurse was a young lady who had experienced a stone that occluded the ureter, and had also delivered her own child on her kitchen floor. She assured me that the kidney stone was much more painful.

[Dave2]

Glad to hear nothing serious, even though the pain associated can sometimes make you think you may not live. My brother-in-law actually passed out from the intense pain when he tried to pass one years ago.

Not to be too graphic, but after they got him to the hospital and were able to get him to pass it, it looked like a small cockelbur!

AAAHHHH!!! OOOOHH! OOÖWWW!

That hurts my brain... deep down inside... where there aren't even any pain receptors...

<shudder>

[A-R]

TAM, glad to hear your son is doing better and the situation was not more dire (and nice to hear he is now "annoyed" again - that's a sure sign of a speedy recovery when the patient turns IMpatient waiting for the discharge orders )

As for the rest of you describing the pain of a kidney stone, I hope your mothers and the mothers of your children aren't reading this and listening to you all whine and moan about passing a little stone after most of them have passed 8 pounds of screaming, kicking baby at least once





I have no experience with either (thankfully) - just sayin' ... the women in my life love to remind me of this anytime I discuss old baseball injuries (blocking hard-hit ground balls with the the wrong part of my anatomy )

[mamabearCali]

So glad he us doing better!

As for childbirth vs kidney stone. I have given birth naturally twice (fourchildren total), the last time was eight weeks ago,so my memory is still real sharp. The reason a woman can do that and live to tell the tale is that a woman's body produces natural opiates during the process. You don't have that benefit with a kidney stone. Does childbirth still hurt beyond all get out--holy cow YES, but if your doctor permits it you can usually work with the pain. With a kidney stone I am guessing there is precious little to do but sit there and suffer. That is awful and why you should get pain meds as much as needed and not feel bad about it for one minute.

[The Annoyed Man]

Update: My son was released from the hospital as scheduled and is doing much better. He told me on Saturday that he's still getting a twinge here and there, but he's been warned that is normal and will fade over time. The receptionist at his urologist's office told me that she's had two kidney stones and given birth twice........and the kidney stones were worse by several orders of magnitude.

Not to take away from anybody's childbirth experience—I'm sure it is darn hard and painful—but you women are actually biologically designed to deliver babies. Neither men nor women are designed to pass a spiky mineral cocklebur down their ureters. As any good test pilot can tell you, when you go beyond the design parameters of the platform, bad things happen.

I've had a number of urinary tract issues over the years, mostly related to the prostate or secondary to it, but watching my son was enough to convince me that I'd rather have a raging bladder infection any day of the week than have to pass a kidney stone. You can have 'em.

[Oldgringo]

Update: My son was released from the hospital as scheduled and is doing much better. He told me on Saturday that he's still getting a twinge here and there, but he's been warned that is normal and will fade over time. The receptionist at his urologist's office told me that she's had two kidney stones and given birth twice........and the kidney stones were worse by several orders of magnitude.

Not to take away from anybody's childbirth experience—I'm sure it is darn hard and painful—but you women are actually biologically designed to deliver babies. Neither men nor women are designed to pass a spiky mineral cocklebur down their ureters. As any good test pilot can tell you, when you go beyond the design parameters of the platform, bad things happen.

I've had a number of urinary tract issues over the years, mostly related to the prostate or secondary to it, but watching my son was enough to convince me that I'd rather have a raging bladder infection any day of the week than have to pass a kidney stone. You can have 'em.

We're all happy to hear your son is better. My plan of k-stone prevention is to consume much, and regular, liquids and then perhaps the stones won't have a chance to form. IANAD & ymmv.