{pain} 5 with waves of 7 every now and again. {sleep} 6h 22m of decent sleep. (I kept my door closed so Lady Diana 🐈⬛ could not wake me at 3a & 5a). Speaking of, a Thriend posted that Cats seemed to have taken over Saturday, so his doggo will get Fursday! (Move over Thor, you have competition). Today is Mason Jar Day, Personal Space Day, & Stay Home Because You’re Well Day, among others. You can listen to the National Day Calendar for today here.
👉🏻We went to Springfield on Tuesday to attend my consultation with the Urologist. [Quick catchup: On 9.Nov I had a procedure in the local hospital after spending a horrific, tortuous night fighting a (10 x 11 x 20)mm kidney stone that remains lodged inside me. No one wanted to prescribe pain medication, however my personal physician was kind enough to help with that.] Springfield is two hours from our house, a 2.5 hour drive with the stops I must make for my back & bladder, & perhaps a 3 hour drive with construction (6-hour+/- round trip).
💁🏻♀️We left the house about 11:30a, arrived in Springfield an hour ahead of my appointment time, which was 3p. I’ve never been to Springfield on purpose, so I wanted to have plenty of time to get my bearings. Roegn and I had time to get coffee & a great parking space, which with Zeus (Dodge 2500) is a priority. There was not much walking involved, though Roe did not bring a heavy coat as instructed… “I prefer looking cute.” 🙄 My daughter, who wears a hoodie in 90° & a light military jacket in 30°.
👩🏻⚕️ The nurses were relatively polite, with one of the assistants beginning with, “that’s a big stone. Not the biggest we’ve seen, but big.” Then she did that thing where she tried to tell me that I should not be feeling the pain I was feeling, or more to the point that the kidney stone & stint were not responsible for the pain down my right leg.
🤔 Let me get this straight: The pain that begins in my lower right abdomen, reaches around my hip to the back side & lower back area, and then radiates down my leg, which was not there prior to the stone becoming lodged & the procedure to insert a foreign object into my body, does not have anything to do with said stone or foreign object?
🙋🏻♀️ Forgive me if I just straight up call bullsh*t. I know my body better than anyone on this earth & I know when I feel pain, where it is located, and over the past fifteen years I have become expert at explaining it. I continue to feel the pain in my hip, lower back, and down my leg – even though they said the medicine they gave me (THREE new scripts) would take care of that.
⚠️Oh, they gave me THREE new prescriptions because I will not have surgery until January 25th‼️
JANUARY F^CKING TWENTY FIFTH
-Me, just now.
🤷🏻♀️ Apparently, because I have the stint & the THREE new medications (that have been prescribed for THREE MONTHS) I am supposed to just deal with the pain (that remains) & not be able to function in my everyday life. ((I am so angry about this I couldn’t write about it for two days, yet I am banging on the keys right now… “angry typing” as Roe would say. She always knows when I’m really in a groove about an issue; she says she can hear the change in the way I punch the keys… but I digress)).
~They did say they have a cancellation list (in direct opposition to what they said over the phone). If I had another option, I would take it, I think.~
🥺 I do not know what to do. Physically I cannot accomplish everything that needs doing… financially we are in deep doo, and bc of the physical limitations I cannot do a dang thing about it. Okay, I’m crying now, I need to go.
I hope your Fursday, Thor’s Day, is going well… it’s halfway over.
🗣️Talk Soon,
Cecelia ✌🏻🌊☕️
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