Materia Medica

[arisbe]

Thanks to all for your thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

And to the divine poppy.

And a new pain med called something very much like taradiddle.

And two bags of saline drip.

Under the influence of which I made an off color remark. The color in question being a very dark red.

"Oh, they pricked your finger."
"At least they didn't finger my prick."

And Barsanuphius, a stuffed animal of indeterminate species which Srsti (yes the r is a vowel, deal with it) brought back to the emergency room from her late dinner break. I should have called him Peter for two reasons, but that would have been pompously Papistical.

The offending particle, when I pissed it out attempting to produce sufficient urine to insert a dipstick into, was insultingly small, at least compared to some of the things I have passed in the past, especially after the lithotripsy.

Home by midnight.

Comments

[arichi.livejournal.com]

I am very glad to hear that you are well. Your remark while on medication is far more ?interesting? than the one I made under similar circumstances the first time I was taken to a hospital for stones. I remember asking, "would these be four needles in Rome?"

It has been about a year since I last had a kidney stone show up. My kidneys haven't even given me trouble in that time period. I hope you go at least as long - preferably, much longer - without any trouble.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I, on the contrary, find your four needles more interesting, as I have no idea what they might be.

[arichi.livejournal.com]

Well, in Roman Numerals, IV is four. So, IV needles become four needles.

[it took my roommate a while to understand what I was saying when I first told the joke]

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Duh. Gotcha. Like the student who asks, Who was this Pope Malcolm the Tenth?

[arichi.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Or at least the same idea.

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

well that is good news...
mentioned your experience to
Andrey and it seems he has twice
had problems resolved by medication.

uh if any of that there
taradiddle medication
is left over maybe you would share
a bit? it sounds like a delightfully
illicit substance.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Very licit, at least for wome abdominal pain.

[bael.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

As my friend Karl put it: "After all that pain, what felt like the moon turned out to be just a little 'plink'"

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I didn't even hear it go plink. The nurse noticed it when she came to collect my specimen.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Did they let you keep it?

Welcome home. :)

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

No. And too small. Barely a speck.

Thanks.

[londontheory.livejournal.com]

hello! i don't believe i've ever commented, but - happy to hear all went well, & happier still that you didn't neglect to mention yr offcolour remark. in stitches, appropriately!

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you.
Don't know about the stitches, though.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i was given toradol for my gallstone attack, in hospital. good stuff. glad you're already home and recovering!

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

That's it, Torodol. Like in Carmen.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

ha! :D

Home by midnight

[mizannie.livejournal.com]

You and Cinderella! Glad that the ordeal is over. Annie

Re: Home by midnight

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Glad my left kidney didn't turn into a pumpkin. (My right one had a stone almost that big, though.)

[rengal.livejournal.com]

I want some taradiddle, too, especially if it will make me loopy _and_ able to still amke witty remarks.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I think you could be loopy without it. And your present symptoms might point to years of loopiness ahead.

[rengal.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

[baranoouji.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that you're recovering. :)

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You heard about my new job in the upholdstery shop.

[contentlove.livejournal.com]

Taradiddle, eh? Glad you're home so fast!

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Me too, and with an new stuffed toy.

[loresinger.livejournal.com]

Glad you made it. As a fellow kidney stone sufferer and lithotripsy patient I feel your pain. Enjoy your "taradiddle"!

:-)

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You no doubt discovered that there are some advantages to being a woman.

[loresinger.livejournal.com]

While there are some, they don't help when the stone is the size of a tic-tac :-)

I average about 1 a year. Thankfully, I have only had one serious one. The others just make me miserable until they worked themselves out.

Hang in there!

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

oi - recover well. I do not look forward to my first.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I shall do my best. Maybe if you drink enough water you won't get them. Or beer. A relative of mine flushed his out with a sixpack or two the night before they were going to operate.

[lilburne.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that worked out! You seem remarkably cheerful under the circumstances, which is impressive.

This is not the type of Livejournal entry I usually encounter. It's usually along the lines of "I have to study for my physics exam." Give them a few more years.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Cheerful? Well I gotta tell you, they say renal colic is the worst pain known to medical science, and when it stops, you sure feel like cheering!

I guess I have an older crowd on my friends list. Lots of illness, grieving, worry.

Wouldn't mind a physics test or two. Sixteen feet per second per second. That's one of the answers, right? And eff equals emm eh.

[priscamor.livejournal.com]

Wow, I am glad you are doing well now. :)