It's just after midnight, and I think I'm passing a kidney stone. This one doesn't feel exactly like some others I've passed, but what else could it be. The pain is really low, so it can't be long now. Nothing to do but drink water and pray. I would add "walk around" to that list of possible remedies, but this one must be causing something to swell and put pressure on a nerve or something - my left leg is killing me. Walking is not an option. And so I blog.
I had a stone about two years ago, and I was up all night with it. Finally, about 4 AM, I couldn't take it anymore and got Mark to take me to the ER. They gave me a morphine drip almost as soon as I walked in the door. I remember lying there, looking up at nurse when that morphine kicked in and I said "Oh my gosh...I'm going to faint!" She looked at me and smiled and said "You're lying on table. Go ahead and faint."
I think about that a lot, as one of those metaphor-for-life moments. We get so focused on holding on to all of our baskets - we forget sometimes we can go ahead and faint.
People are fond of saying that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. Too bad that isn't scriptural. What the Bible actually says is God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to resist. Not at all the same thing.
I personally think God gives people more than they can handle all the time. But I find great comfort in knowing that God can't give me more than He can handle. So I can go ahead and faint when I need to. Like now.
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oh man- so sorry to hear this! i so vividly remember driving you to columbia to meet your mom in college when you had a kidney stone. maybe you should try lying in the back of the car moaning for a while and then sit up. it seemed to work back then!
do you still drink mountain dew? one of our admins here drinks it like crazy and has kidney stones all the time.
hope it passes quickly without the need for a morphine drip!
Here's hoping you feel better soon. I have never had a kidney stone, but I understand they are extremely painful. YUCK! I said a prayer last night that God would take care of you (of course he will!) and I hope to read very soon that you're all better. Go ahead and faint if you need to. God will catch you. Or send an angel to do so (like morphine - liquid angel!).
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