35 weeks and a Kidney Stone

On Tuesday night I went to bed rather early. I woke up for a normal bathroom break at 1:00 and had really low back pain. I went back to bed and couldn't get comfortable, so I waited and after I couldn't go back to sleep I called the on call nurse and told her that I thought I had a kidney infection or a UTI she said that all she could do would be to call in an antibiotic. So she did but we didn't go pick it up because she said it would take a few days to make me feel better. Instead Darrell went to Wal-Mart and picked up some Tylenol to see if it would numb the pain a little. After the Tylenol, I tried a heating pad and a hot shower and nothing worked. By 4:00 I couldn't take it anymore. I called the nurse again and she said there was nothing else she could do for me and that we would just have to go to the hospital. So we did. They didn't give me anything for the pain because they had to wait on my lab results, therefore I had to wait in pain until about 6:30 but when they did finally get me an IV it was euphoric!! The nurse said, "this might make you a little drunk ..." and she wasn't kidding. The minute she pushed it into the IV I couldn't see straight. My labs revealed that there were 2 possible diagnosis'. One was a raging UTI and the other was a kidney stone. Around 9 they took me down to imaging where they did some sort of x-ray and determined it was a 6 mm kidney stone. 6 mm is the size of a black eye pea, which sounds small until you think about the size of the tube it has to pass through. So I have a black eye pea stuck somewhere between my right kidney and my bladder. At the moment it is lodged somewhere so it's not hurting and it won't cause any problem unless it decides to move again. The urologist said that the chances of passing it are slim and none because of the size. He said as long as it didn't cause any problems we'd carry to term, deliver and address it afterwards. If in fact it does cause problems between now and delivery, possibly causing some sort of bacterial infection, we'd then go ahead and induce and take care of the stone at the same time. So that's where we've been this week. Everything seems to be back to normal now and on Friday the 11th we'll go in for our 36 week check up. Then we'll start our weekly visits. Let the countdown begin!