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So I definitely have had better weeks then the one I had last week, that’s for sure.

Monday June 6 started off like any other normal day. We had some big wigs in the company come in so I was dressed a bit nicer than the normal outfits.

Everything started around 4pm. I was at my desk and had this terrible pain in my back. In college I had herniated my L4 and L5 vertebrae, so I have had back pain for some time. However, this pain was completely different. This pain was too left of my spine around the kidney area. I could feel the color drain out of my face I became uncomfortable and wanted to pass out. I became extremely hot, and just wanted to sit in front of an air conditioning unit. I went into the bathroom and threw water on my face and that did nothing. So I grabbed my things and told one of the AE’s I work with that I was not leaving I just needed to sit in my car. They could see me in excruciating pain and immediately became worried. I was trying to walk to my car and god love my co workers, everyone was so concerned but they kept preventing from getting to the car because they were so worried about me. They tried to get me to drink water but everything and every smell made me want to throw up.

I finally made it to my car and the air condition could not get cold enough quick enough. I tried calling Lisa several times but I did not get an answer on her cell phone or the house line. At this point I was in so much pain I was almost in tears. It was around 4:30pm now and I knew my In-Laws were on their way to drop of Lex and Jack. I called my mother-in-law and told her what was going on. She told me Lisa was home because she had a horrible migraine and could not see straight (Yes I know we did well on the parenting that night). I told my in laws I wanted to go to the hospital so my father in law took me to GBMC. About a 5 minute drive from my work but it was the longest drive ever. He dropped me off at the emergency room and then went to park the car. I got myself checked in and saw a nurse within 20 minutes of arriving. She immediately thought it was a kidney stone. So they took blood and a urine sample. She also gave me medicine to help me from my nausea and a Percocet for the pain. They booked me for a CT scan and they confirmed blood was in my urine but they did not find the stone. So they assumed it already passed. I was sent home around 7:30 that night. The boys ended up spending the night at my in laws house and Lisa and I went home and rested.

On Tuesday, I woke up feeling pretty good. I still had some pain in my back but it was not as bad as Monday. That changed quickly. I was part of a political meeting that morning, and during the meeting I could feel the color drain from my face. I wanted to pass out, and I must have sounded horrible to the person sitting next to me. I was trying to catch my breath and be tough in all of this. Finally my boss saw me from across the way and asked to see me in the hallway. I went out there and he just told me to go. So my co workers saw me again in poor shape and I just walked to the car and ended up falling asleep. At 12:30 I woke up to two of my coworkers checking to see if I was dead. Obviously, and thankfully, I was not. They did not have to do much but the convinced me to drive home and get some rest. I was having the most wonderful nap of all time when around 3pm Lisa got home and was not happy with me that I did not pick up the phone when she called (ironic since the day before she did not pick up the phone for me when I called). She had made me a doctor’s appointment to my personal physician that I have not seen in a few years. When we got there again I had some more problems with feeling dizzy and light headed. They put me in a room and just let me sleep for the two hours we waited to be seen.

In a funny side note Lisa tried to pull out the part of the chair that when a patient lies down they can put their feet up. She pulled a little too hard and broke it, and the best is part she just hid the broken piece in the doctor’s office.

My doctor disagreed with the Kidney Stone diagnosis. He felt the problem was more of a pulled muscle because with the kidney stone the pain would move and this pain did not move. He felt all the other symptoms were my body reacting to the pain.

So here I am a week later and I feel pretty good. By Friday of last week I was in no pain at all. Here I am hoping that it does not happen again because it really sucked. But I am so grateful for my family and my coworkers because it’s nice to know people care about you.