If you’ve been paying attention and are up to date, you should know I am pursuing an open water scuba certification (scroll down for post 😉 ). This past weekend I completed 3/4 required open water dives. There was a lot of stuff to see underwater at the rock quarry in Kentucky; lots of fish (at a $500 per pound fine), a helicopter, a yacht, a motorcycle, playground equipment, a school bus, and more! Not only did we get to site see underwater, but we did some skills and learned what it mean to be a PADI certified diver.

Sunday was suppose to be my fourth dive and a fun one after we got certified, but unfortunately I did not make any dives that day. Around 3 o’clock in the morning, I woke up with a slight pain in my abdomen on the right side. I went to the bathroom and tried to fall asleep, but the pain was getting progressively worse. I went upstairs to try and diagnose my problem on the internet… Not really finding anything and hearing the dog start to stir, I decided I would take him out for a walk. That didn’t really help my pain much, but at least Waldo was happy to get his legs stretched. Around 6 am, I woke Susan up and said I need to go see a doctor and that I was in a lot of pain.

She was pretty groggy and was trying to figure out what it could be. I had eaten some cereal bars and drank some water, but I was still hurting pretty good and finally convinced her we should go… On the way there, I could not get comfortable and we had to stop every so often so I could get out and walk around a bit (seemed to help with the pain). The last stop, I ended up vomiting and felt a little better after that.

We get to the ER and there is on older man talking to the ONLY receptionist about getting directions to some where else in the hospital. When we get to the window I tell her I’m in a lot of pain… she hands me a clipboard to fill out… While I’m filling out the clipboard (wasn’t much to it), another person had come up to the window. I’m not sure what they were talking about but I did here MBA mentioned… and I thought this was the ER, you know where people need to get looked at ASAP!

Seeing as how I was the only one that actually needed to be looked at, once they had my clipboard it wasn’t long before a nurse took my blood pressure and took some information. I finally get into a room and I can’t find a comfortable position, walking around was all I could do to keep my mind off the pain. After a CT scan it was determined… drum roll please… that I had a kidney stone… yup painful little bugger. After awhile later they gave me some drugs and I was actually feeling pretty good. I pretty much relaxed the rest of the day and my boss let me work from home on Monday. By Tuesday I was feeling much better and returned to work… little did I know news spreads fast there… I have a kit that I’m suppose to collect a urine sample for 24 hours and they’ll analyze it and tell me how I can prevent more kidney stones from forming… hope so cause they’re not much fun!