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The Move Part 2
1:24 PM, Sep. 18, 2008
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Once D accepted his new job, we quietly started making plans. We let our landlord know that we would be moving and began packing some.
On Thursday, June 12th, we had planned on taking the kids to the Livermore Rodeo. D got home from work and was in quite a bit of discomfort. He wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong, but he thought he was having back spasms. We attributed it to stress and I rubbed his back for a bit while he tried to relax. Eventually the pain subsided enough for us to take the kids to the rodeo as we planned and we had a fun evening out. D was still uncomfortable all night. He was OK on Friday but Saturday he wasn’t feeling well and was nauseous all day.
We went to church on Sunday and as soon as we came back he had another attack, this one much more painful than the Thursday night episode. Fortunately, we’d invited his sister and brother-in-law over for lunch so they watched the kids for us while I took him to the urgent care center. He was pacing and stretching and bending constantly, I told him he looked like a meth addict. We both thought it acted like a gall bladder attack, however D had his removed in 2003. Urgent care diagnosed kidney stones and sent us home with some big time pain medication.
On Monday, we tried to get in to see our primary care doctor, but had to settle for another doctor in his office. This guy decided that it wasn’t kidney stones at all because D didn’t have all of the symptoms. Dr. Smug decided that D had indigestion. We were both a bit incredulous at that and pushed hard enough that we at least got him to order some blood work.
On Tuesday the pain came back. We didn’t mess around and went straight to the ER this time. After many tests, they still didn’t know what was going on and we heard everything from kidney stones again to appendicitis. He was admitted overnight and on Wednesday (June 18th) our primary care doctor came to see him and he immediately said that it was gall stones. Even though D had his gall bladder removed, it’s still possible for him to get gall stones. Who knew? The plan of action was for D to have an endoscopy to remove the stones. So, on Wednesday, D was in the hospital waiting for the endoscopy and I was scheduled to go into the hospital to be induced. His surgeon scheduled his procedure on Wednesday at 7:30 pm so that he could be recovered before I went into labor. They were even going to wheel his bed into my maternity room. it would have been great except… I left for the hospital at about 8:30 Wednesday night and when I got there to check in, labor and delivery was booked, there was no room. I tried to be to be all mad about it, but really, what can you do?
D’s procedure went smoothly, they removed an 8mm stone. Since he was in recovery, I went home and hung out with him the next day, calling L&D every few hours to see if they were going to fit me in… no luck. I talked to my doctor finally and we discussed options. The problem was that she was leaving for a week on Sunday and didn’t see any way that I was going to get in for an induction before then. I opted to have her partner deliver me, but her partner wanted to have an appointment with me first, so we set that up for Monday. the appointment went fine and I was once again set up to be induced.
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