I woke up with a mild back ache. By the time I had made coffee, I was having intense pain on the left side of my lower back. We were planning to go to the Baltimore Aquarium at 1100 but Dora called Barry to see if he could take me to the doctor. We went to an emergency clinic nearby. After a painful wait, they gave me a shot for the pain, took an X-ray, a blood sample and a urine sample. The doctor said that X-rays don’t always detect kidney stones but she requested one anyway and of course it didn’t show anything, I did have blood in my urine. Se told us we needed to go to the emergency room, which we probably should have done in the first place.
At the hospital, they did a CAT scan and found a 5mm stone just above my bladder. They gave a prescription for the pain and anti-nausea pills and told me to go home and wait for the stone to pass. If nothing happens in a couple of days the doctor told me to se a urologist. I was fairly comfortable through the night after taking two Percocet.
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