I was in a class titled Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals yesterday. About 4:10 PM, I suddenly felt very, very unwell, and in enormous pain. I left early, and as the pain kept increasing, I drove myself to the St. Luke's Emergency Room. The pain was in my lower right abdomen, and I was fiercely nauseated. It is the first time that I have been in an E/R for me since the mid-1980s.
My guess was appendicitis. The E/R physician ordered a CAT scan, because he suspected a kidney stone. This was a very good guess, and he did not even know that my daughter (who is so genetically similar to me that my wife says my genes just stomped her genes) has recently had kidney stones, too.
Anyway, it turned out to be a 7mm kidney stone. (The CAT scan also found gall stones in my gall bladder, but those are not causing any problems right now.) I now understand why my wife says that a kidney stone is definitely worse than giving birth. Wow.
It has not yet passed. I am supposed to go into a urologist today.
UPDATE: Reading the paperwork from the E/R gets worse. They also say that there is "mass" in my left kidney that needs to be examined, and that I should have my gall bladder removed.
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