Tuesday, March 24th -
I find myself back at VMMC this morning. Last night around dinner time, the pain I was having in kidney area started getting worse. Lots of pain ending up in a bout of shivers and emptying my stomach. After hurried calls to my urologist, we loaded up and headed to Virginia Mason.
A quick assessment, blood levels, x rays showed that I was dehydrated, my fluid drains were not working properly for a time, and fluids had been backing up to my kidneys (cause of pain). Back on IV fluids overnight. I woke up pain free, feeling good, with Dr's assessment that everything looks good & they would discharge me this morning!
Lesson learned. I need to learn to dance with my new bladder. It still wants to behave like a piece of intestine - absorbing water and removing waste. So the trick is to drink lots & keep the fluid flowing! I'm trying to think of a good analogy ... kind of like having a water system that needs to be constantly running because if it stops, the pump will loose it's prime.
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