I thought that I would get a chance to relax for a couple of days and over the weekend before starting back at work along with cranking up my physical therapy.  HA,HA,HA….FOOLISH MORTAL!

Instead, my wife wakes up on Saturday morning with excruciating pain in her left side and back.  I have my son take her to the hospital emergency room since the Urgent Cares are not open yet.  They decide to keep her overnight for observation and a CAT scan.  This shows that she has 7-8 kidney stones with one as big as 6.6 mm.  This was much too big to pass by itself.  She is scheduled for surgery on Monday and there goes the whole week.  Fortunately, with family helping out, I was able to make sure she was comfortable while they helped me at home with my knee replacement.

She was very worried on Monday when she went into surgery but she came out without issue.  The doctor was able to break up the stones and remove some along with placing a stint in her ureter to more easily pass the remaining stones.  She passed some pieces about the size of coarse sand and all went smoothly.  I was able to get to my first session of physical therapy before she went into surgery and was able to be with her the rest of that time.  She came home about 8 that night and was able to sleep in her own bed.  That seemed to make her feel so much better than staying in the hospital did.

Here we are now on Wednesday and she had the stint removed.  She is feeling so much better and like her normal self.   She is heading back to work tomorrow afternoon and I am going back to work tomorrow morning.  This will be a good test of how much both of us have recuperated.

I need to thank all of my family and friends for their help and sacrifice.