Kidney stones - Round 2

After two days of the pain getting worse, I had a very painful, sleepless night.  I once again visited labor and delivery, and I was admitted for a few days.  I tried to be tough, and the pain quickly got out of hand.  My baby girl is completely fine and this must be a little girl drama.

Labor & Delivery Triage

What a day!  I signed the boys in at school, dropped off a bunch of birthday goodies for Reed's teacher (since I volunteered to be room mom), immediately went to a curriculum meeting for Ryland, ran out to my truck to return a phone call, ran back in the church for MOPS, two hours later, I sped to MiChula's to pick up teacher lunch, and headed back to church to deliver the food.  At this point, I am running crazy, but the pain I have been having over the past two weeks had gotten to a debilitating state. 

Well, without going into details, a potty break uncovered an issue that had to be addressed immediately.  After a conversation with my doctor's nurse, I was told to go to the hospital.  I spent the afternoon, night, and next day at Baylor in labor & delivery.  I had kidney stones.  I could not believe that I suffered through the pain and didn't realize it was something bigger. 

Renal scan

Ryland had the renal scan his pediatrician ordered last week. I looked up renal scan online to see what exactly the process would be.
First, tie off his arm.
Second, rub a numbing cream on his lower arm.
Third, inject a radioactive liquid in his lower arm.
Fourth, untie arm to allow the liquid to move to the rest of his body.
Fifth, take a scan while he lays completely still.
The radioactive liquid sounded pretty scary to me. I continued to read the article about side effects. Drink lots of fluids to cleanse the liquid out of the body. Duh!

When we were called back for the test, I found out it was just a sonogram. Hooray! Ryland isn't going to be radioactive after all! Needless to say, Ryland thought the sonogram was terrible. All he had to do was lie still while she rubbed the wand on his belly. He screamed bloody murder. He screamed, kicked, arched his back, and threw a fit. The technician had to call another nurse in to help me hold him down. After about 10 minutes that seemed like an hour, it was over.

We will have the results tomorrow when we see the pediatrician for Ryland's 12 month well visit.