The "De-Stoning Of LDub & Carol" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Looking at the dozen or more bottle of pills sitting on the snack tray next to me.  Trying to figure out which one I should be taking for the shaking, which one to take for the nausea and which one to take for the antibiotic.  It was over a month ago that both myself and my wife developed pains; my in my left side and Carol's in her right side.  Carol became ill a few time on a recent trip to Puerto Rico.  Caused pain in her side and nausea.  When we returned she went to our family doctor who sent her to a surgeon.  The surgeon suspected it was her gall bladder based on how she described her symptoms.  He decided on a few tests to help in his diagnosis.  One test was an endoscopy which ran a camera/scope done her throat to take photos of the areas around the gall bladder.  The surgeon noticed her bile duct was enlarged and ordered another test.  That test showed a gall stone lodged in it so another procedure using a tube about the size of a small garden hose was inserted in her mouth and down her throat was done to remove the stone.  The procedure went well, but the anesthesia caused severe nausea.  She is finally recovered, but must visit her surgeon to make arrangements to have her gall bladder removed.  As for me, about a month ago I had a severe pain in my left side which after a visit to the ER proved to be two kidney stones.  A few days ago I had them removed so we are now both minus our stones.  

My procedure involved using a ureteroscope which is inserted in the penis and into the bladder.  When in the bladder he found the stones, attached together, and removed them.  He then placed a stent in the abdomen to reduce the risk of complications.  The stent remains in my body until a follow up visit when it, along with the catheter that is still in place, will be removed.  The stent goes from the bladder, through the Ureter, to the Kidney.  I had a slight complication when the scope scratched me and caused bleeding.  I don't take recovery very well!  I have made over a half dozen calls to the doctor's office already asking about my nausea, how to stop from shaking, my pain from the catheter, my pain I have in my kidney, my pain in this .... and that.  I have the doctor's number programmed in my phone nauturally.  Right now Carol is making yet another trip to the pharmacy to pick up pills to stop my pain in my kidney and to help stop the bladder contractions.  Oh, for good health once again!  At least we have both been de-stoned.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.