Stopped by a medical snag

dazren · Guru

Stopped by a medical snag

kandagal · Guru

We were all set to move off from here (Atherton NQ) this morning but instead at 5am I had to rush my chauffeur to the hospital. He was in agony. Diagnosis is a kidney stone. He's staying there over night. See what tomorrow brings.

Boroma577 · Guru

Ouch....not pleasant at all. Good luck.

kandagal · Guru

Thanks Boroma. he was feeling ok when I left the hospital 15 mins ago. Morphine is a wonderful stuff hey

neilnruth · Guru

Hope you're soon back on the way and glad you were near a hospital.

pauline · Guru

A kidney stone is the only thing I have seen floor my husband, he was rolling on the floor in agony.........took him to hospital and nurse said straight away what it was, she had seen it many times before,unfortunately she made the mistake of saying it in front of Doctor......he said oh no definately a bout of gastro and sent him home with a script for antibiotics, luckily he passed it when home.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I had the same thing happen last September while at the Lake Nagambie CV Park Vic. I was on my own and I was fine the first night there but was woken by pain that progressed rapidly to the point where I rang an ambulance, they arrived and raced me to the Shepparton Hospital and I spent the next 24 hours there on Morphine. When they let me go I had to get a taxi back to the CV park $120.00 (taxi cost) later I arrived back and no problems since.

The pain was indescribable.

AmandaJayne · Guru

oh what a terrible thing to happen, hope he is doing ok now... they are certainly very painful :(

golivers travels · Guru

Hope he recovers quickly, have heard they are very painful. At least you were close to a hospital and Atherton is a lovely place to be recouping. Glenda

Beth54 · Guru

If it's anything like the pain of Gallstones, I can totally empathise with him.

Hope he passes it soon and you're on your way again. smile

Delta18 · Guru

Kidney stones are the worst pain by far known to man (and woman).

On our 'big trip round' in 2007 I had my first episode with one at Daintree and also rang an ambulance to meet us as we drove toward Mossman. The pain was terrible. After a couple hours on morphine the pain subsided.

It wasn't until we got to Broome, after a couple more painful episodes that the problem was diagnosed and confirmed with a Cat-scan.

It wasn't until we got back to Bunbury that it could be removed. Thankfully I was out to it when that happened as it was removed by the same path it could have passed naturally.

I am convinced the pain is worse than childbirth because you often hear a woman say she'd like another baby but you never hear a man say he wouldn't mind another kidney stone do you? disbelief

Cheers Neil

Gerty Dancer · Guru

How's he feeling today Kandagal? hope its all over and you can get going again.

Rip and Rosie · Guru

They reckon its like labour pain. The thing with labour is that the process releases endorphines but renal colic does not.

Would need some one who has had a baby AND a kidney stone to make the comparision.

Also- you get to keep a cute baby who smiles at you, but no one wants to keep a kidney stone that just sits there!

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Delta18 wrote:

I am convinced the pain is worse than childbirth because you often hear a woman say she'd like another baby but you never hear a man say he wouldn't mind another kidney stone do you?
Cheers Neil

if the male reaction to the flu is anything to go by, your whole argument is blown out the wondow.

Happywanderer · The Master

Well, I have had all, 3 babies, gall stones and a suspected kidney stone which left me rolling around the A&E of Bundaberg Hosp in the middle of the night. The next morning they were still unsure what it was but I was ok to go after a night in a hosp bed on heavy pain killers.
I wouldn't want to try any of them again thank you very much. One was as bad as the other.

dazren · Guru

confuse Awww !! C'mon HW, you went back for 2 more babies ? but No more gall stones or kidney stones ?? so they must be worse than childbirth biggrin biggrin

Happywanderer · The Master

Regardless of which one, they all got stuck in there and had to come out!!

Delta18 · Guru

At least they CAN blow up a kidney or gall stone if necessary.

Cheers Neil

pauline · Guru

LOL...............

Rip and Rosie · Guru

lol

Happywanderer · The Master

You wonder why they can't with all 3 at times lol

neilnruth · Guru

With our fourth baby, I had a kidney infection - I was overdue by then but I knew I didn't want to experience both kidney infection and labour at the same time!