cone of shame.

we picked up little midger yesterday from the vet after her BIG surgery.

she did really well and seemed to be recovering well.

she also acted completely terrified and will probably hate the vet for the rest of forever.

we took her home and she was acting like her normal self.

running around, chasing our ankles, pouncing, etc.

then she started licking her incision.

big no no.

so i called the vet... AGAIN.

and they said i could come pick up an e-collar... aka cone of shame.

we got it on her the first time and she kind of walked around for a second like a drunk cat.

i think it threw of her balance.

she didn't like that so much so she rolled over on her side and kicked that thing off.

we attempted to put it on her a couple more times.

and each time was so hilarious, that i had to record our last attempt.

i couldn't get the video to post here, so here's the link.

click, click, click

i promise it's worth it.

poor girl.

GOOD NEWS!!!  lincoln just passed mr. kidney stone, like three minutes ago.  hallelujah!  that thing is small!  so crazy.

the funny thing is we JUST got home from his urology appointment and he had to go to bathroom while he was there, but he decided to wait until we got home.

oh goodness, this week.

i have a dentist appointment today and if he tells me i need something crazy done, like a root canal, i might have a melt down.  i guess our whole goal this week is to completely empty our savings account and pay every doctor in utah.

AND... guess what else?  lincoln is seeing an ear, nose, and throat doctor today too because he can't breathe through his nose, like ever.  so we have to go see what going on up there.

fun week.  ;)

oh, what a day.

where do i even begin?

remember how lincoln said his goal for 2011 was to have a baby.

well, that kind of happened.

sunday morning.

7:00 a.m.

lincoln wakes me up and he's saying,

"it hurts! it hurts!!!!!"

over and over.

i'm saying, 

"what hurts? what hurts?"

over and over.

lincoln had been up most of the night because his nose is always clogged.

allergies.

so i kept thinking something was wrong with his nose.

finally he says,

"my back, my side, my stomach!!!"

he was doubled over on the floor and clearly in pain.

i ask the usual questions,

"well, did you poop?  throw up?  what kind of pain is it?  sharp or dull?"

then i'm grabbing my laptop to webmd his symptoms, but he's screaming we have to go.  NOW.

i don't even remember grabbing my shoes.

i called my parents, "what do i do?  what do i do??"

my initial thought was appendicitis.

my parents also suggested kidney stone or gallbladder.

i'm of course crying and FREAKING out.

we get lincoln in the car and start driving to the nearest hospital.

i call his mom in oklahoma and ask her what to do.

she also thinks kidney stone, appendicitis, or gallbladder.

and also says kidney stones run in the family.

then she tells me to calm down so i can be strong for lincoln.

i compose myself and somehow get to the ER.

i don't even remember the drive.

it was probably a good thing it was a sunday morning and no one was on the roads.

lincoln is shaking severly and he's breathing so rapidly that his face and hands are tingling.

he's pale and doubled over as we walk in.

i couldn't even find anyone.

don't you think an ER should have someone sitting there at all times waiting for emergencies to walk through the door?

finally, someone.

"we need some help,"

i manage to squeak out with a look of terror on my face.

"oh, yes you do,"

she says looking at lincoln doubled over.

"looks like a kidney stone," she says.

and begins to tell us about the time she had one and also about another guy who walked through door before us in the same doubled-over state.

i spit out all his info and we finally get him in a wheel chair and back to a room.

IVs, oxygen, pulse monitor, blood pressure.

all hooked up.

then the morphine.

they ask us questions and say they will need to do a CT scan.

morphine isn't working.

lincoln is still at a pain level of 9.

seriously thought he was dying.

so they give him two more viles of morphine.

and then the CT scan.

he could barely stand and move from bed to bed and came back from the 5 minute CT scan screaming in pain.

so then they gave him another pain killer that was like ten times stronger than morphine... or something.

i can't even remember.

that did the trick.  no more pain.

we sat there for what seemed like forever.

poor guy couldn't drink anything before they had the results incase he had to go to surgery.

his mouth was as dry as a desert floor.

then the doc came in with the news.

5mm kidney stone.

the good news is, the stone had moved 99% of the way from the kidney to the bladder through the ureter.

now i know why passing a kidney stone is so painful.
have you ever seen a ureter?

it's like really small.  really really small. 

"generally kidney stones this size will pass on their own within two days, but it can take up to 2 weeks.  5mm is about the size of an eraser on the end of a pencil.

6mm kidney stones are when we operate,"

she says.

comforting... the largest stone they will let pass.

then we wait and wait some more.

needed to make sure there was no infection.

a whole bunch of pain killers and 2 bags of fluid later, he is released.

definitely not the most fun 5 hours of my life and definitely the most pain lincoln has ever been in his life.

i've heard that passing a kidney stone is worse than child birth.

i hope that's the case, because if that's how painful child birth is, i might die.

i have never witnessed someone being in so much pain.

lincoln is doing well now, but he still hasn't passed mr. kidney stone.

wish him happy (and soon) passing, okay?

drinking lots and lots of water.

we need that little guy outta there!

we also dropped little midger off for her big surgery today. :(

she was FREAKED.

we just can't seem to stay away from the doc this week.