I’ve been trying to stay on focus with my blog. Then I figured that since the blog is about my thoughts, interests, and family, I’d include this.

My wife woke up Saturday morning to an extreme pain in her stomach. I’m not talking a tummy ache. No, we’re talking “doubled over in pain” type of pain. So we rush her to the emergency room at the local hospital. We both are counting on that its a kidney stone. You see, we’ve gone through this before. With our first son, Michael, roughly 8 to 9 months after he was born, she developed a kidney stone. For you guys out there, my wife says that a kidney stone hurts one hundred times more than having a baby. There you go, for those fathers you worry about missing out on the birth of their child, have a kidney stone.

Anyway, I spend the next two and a half hours in the emergency room waiting area with two screaming boys. I love them to death, but Michael can undo his stroller belt and tried to run out the hospital door. I held him in my lap the next hour. Matthew (our 8 month old) was screaming because he was sleepy; while holding on to Michael, I was able to rock Matthew to sleep.

They finally let us back to see her. She had some pain meds, but was still in her head, so it wasn’t bad. They found 2 kidney stones! The doctor had mentioned that she could go home and come back on Tuesday to have them removed, or she could be admitted and stay until Tuesday. She didn’t want to stay, and I didn’t want her to. The plan was changed to trying to pump enough iv fluids in to flush the stones out.

I take the boys home to eat and for a nap. At 3:45, she calls saying the doctor is going to take the stones out in 30 minutes and I needed to get there and sign consent forms because she’s not in the right state of mind due to stronger pain meds. I get the boys up, change them, rush to the hospital, then wait an hour before they come to get her to surgery. We wait about 2 more hours in the surgery waiting room for the doctor to come in. Every thing’s fine, she can go home tonight. Get her some pain meds, and let her rest.

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