Stubborn

We have had a crazy last week in our home. Towards the end of last week Taylor had some back pain from getting hit while playing basketball. Saturday morning he woke up in a lot of pain and realized he had a kidney stone. He has had several of them and knows what the symptoms are and the horrific pain. He went to the doctor and got checked out and some pain meds. He was feeling better without having to take them and even played in his basketball game Saturday evening. However, in the middle of the night he woke up in great pain and took some medicine. The medicine made him so sick and he was so dehydrated and couldn't keep anything down. Tony came over and gave him a blessing and took him to the ER. Thank goodness for good neighbors/friends that watched Sage for me so I could go be with him at the hospital. They got him hydrated, took some xrays and a scan and sent him home with some more pain meds, medicine for the nausea and a referral for a urologist.The xrays showed he has 4mm stone, which is not good. They also compared the scan with a scan they took in 2008 and there has not been any changes to his PKD. Monday he went to the urologist and they said he had a 50% chance of passing it on his own. He set an appointment up to have it blasted Tuesday, which he ended up canceling because he is not feeling any more pain. He is still not feeling great, but the pain is gone. We're hoping he passed it on his own and there is no more pain waiting ahead. Taylor has such a good attitude and sense of humor- even when he is in pain. He said he should start naming his kidney stones and that if he did this one would be named "Stubborn". He has lots of stones up there, so it is just a matter of time. I'm grateful this is his first one since we have been married and hope we don't have to experience them often. It is awful watching someone you love in pain.

This is Taylor pretending he is dead. Someone asked how he was doing and he said he just finished writing his obituary. Poor boy felt like he was really going to die.