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Kidney stone update

posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 06:43pm on 27/06/2006 under , ,
Firstly, thanks to everyone for their sympathy and good wishes. Secondly, the stone passed, and I'm back home now, with a big stack of analgesics to handle any after effects. The pain subsided sometime in the midmorning.

I don't like pain, particularly not pain that takes away my ability to talk, makes me vomit, and consumes my every ounce of attention. I can dimly imagine how someone suffering from chronic pain feels and it's terrifying.
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posted by [identity profile] viktor-haag.livejournal.com at 11:09pm on 27/06/2006
Myles,

My condolences on your recent health troubles. I sympathize greatly.
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posted by [identity profile] doc-mystery.livejournal.com at 02:33am on 28/06/2006
I'm glad you are home and relatively pain free now.

Sorry to hear about the renal calculi; as I recall, having various organs and tubes of the body 'stretched' when they aren't supposed to be (or even when they are, in the case of child-birth) can be the most wrenching and terrible of discomfort.

I'm still impressed that you blogged from the emergency department on a hospital stretcher...

::B::
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 09:13am on 28/06/2006
Blogger on the front lines, that's me. In fact the blogging and e-mail from my Blackberry helped me feel less isolated. Sam wasn't able to be there in the middle of the night because Rowan was at home and needed looking after. A little electronic contact with friends helped.

Admittedly I only posted during the lulls in the pain. I'm not that hard.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 06:47am on 28/06/2006
Good luck with finding effective preventatives!
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posted by [identity profile] natural20.livejournal.com at 08:43am on 28/06/2006
Ugh and double ugh. May it all go away soon.
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posted by [identity profile] fatal-logic.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 30/06/2006
Ow. Ow ow ow.

Glad to hear you're home and good luck with finding an effective painkiller...
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 08:31am on 01/07/2006
I'm much better now. I'm still taking the painkillers but I think that things are almost back to normal and I'll try doing without them tomorrow. Glad to have it behind me.

I've got an appointment with a urologist early in August and I hope I'll see then if there's anything else I can do to minimise the chances of this happening again. I thought I'd been pretty good about cutting down on risk factors in my diet and drinking lots of water each day but maybe I could be doing more.
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