Yesterday was one of those days…where everything that can go wrong does.  It started normally enough.  My husband had showings in the morning so I hung out with the little kids.  It was a very typical morning, except for the fact that I had a Benadryl hangover and “hanging out” consisted of me dozing on [...]

Filed under: Faith/Religion, Health, House/Home, Kidney Stones, Me Stuff, Money/Finances

I was at blogher looking at some things and ran across this post.  I had seen the reports several weeks ago about the recommendation to ban Percocet, Vicodin, and other narcotic pain relievers that contain acetaminophen and planned to post about it then but life got in the way and I never got around to [...]

Filed under: Health, Kidney Stones, News/Current Events

Today is the last day of what may go down as my worst year EVER.  I feel terrible for saying that, as I sit here less than 3 weeks from having a baby…clearly I got pregnant this year and I know that is no small thing.  It feels like something of a miracle considering our [...]

Filed under: Faith/Religion, Family, Health, Kidney Stones, Me Stuff, Parenting, Pregnancy, Sanford

It really started Friday morning when I woke up to the symptoms of hydronephrosis.  This is (basically) a backup of urine in the kidney.  It is painful and can be dangerous if untreated.  This is not the first time I’ve had it, and probably won’t be the last…so I got up determined to tough it [...]

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Count yourself lucky if you can say no.  I am not one of those people!  I have had 4 lithotripsies, (a surgery where they bust them up via shock waves, it’s non invasive and not particularly terrible unless they don’t break up well and you have to pass large fragments) a cystoscopy under general anesthesia [...]

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