What a week!

I meant to get back to the blog before now, but it's been such a tiring week for us. As we were traveling back to Georgia on Monday, Michael started feeling bad. I started driving somewhere in Mississippi. At first, we thought he just had an upset stomach but then he started experiencing a lot of abdominal pain. The closer we got to home, the worse it got. He originally wanted to just get home so he could lay down, but then the pain got much worse and he actually asked me to take him to the hospital.

I had my suspicions and they were confirmed after he had a CT scan at the hospital. Kidney stone! They got him on pain meds and laying down so he was soon feeling a lot better. Armed with prescriptions, we got out of the hospital about 10:30 that evening.

He insisted on going to work the next day so I had to drive him there and pick him up, since the doctor told him not to drive while taking the pain meds (Percoset).

The rest of the week passed with him feeling not too bad but not great either. By Thursday afternoon he was feeling feverish and having chills. After talking to our "family doctor" (my SIL's boyfriend/significant other, who is an ER doctor), I called Michael's urologist and finally got a call back about 10:15 that night. When he found out what was going on, he told me to take Michael to the hospital immediately. We got there and they finally got him into a room and did urine/blood tests. The urine test showed a UTI but the blood test came back clean - a very good thing. No kidney infection! If there had been a kidney infection, he would have been admitted and would have been facing some kind of procedure the next day to clear out the kidney.