So, Wednesday I had my 2nd ever ESWL and my 8th stent. This time, the ESWL went perfectly! I woke up pain free in regard to my kidney and renal pelvis. This stent, however, is as bad as that one other bad one I had a couple years ago.

I'm not sure if I had this blog up or not at the time of that one stent gone wrong. Basically, stents suck no matter how you look at it, and there will always be some pain involved, but this pain makes me think the stent shifted some.

I have to pee every half hour, and as of this morning, as soon as my bladder is emptied, I get this 8-9/10 pain for 10-15 seconds, and it feels like someone is ripping my kidneys right out of my body. More specifically, once it's emptied, it feels like my kidney is being pulled down, and my bladder is being pulled up, but I feel this pain sort of in my front - not in the flank. Ugh. Hard to describe.

So this morning my Mother-in-law drove me all the way down to Stanford for an X-ray and I'm still waiting to hear back from the doctor, who probably thinks I'm crazy by the way he's dismissing my pain.

Thank gawd for pyridium though... Without it I'd still be on vicodin for the constant pain and burning caused by the stent in my bladder and urethra. Battery is dying - more later.