Subj : Health Update
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sun Mar 26 2017 12:42:57

  I haven't been in the FIDONet echoes in awhile, but am back now...
and I wanted to give a health update.

  First, my 90 year old Mom was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation
and congestive heart failure earlier this year...and she had a
pacemaker implanted in early February. They finally stabilized her
on the Lasix, where it didn't "dry her out", or "not enough", which
meant breathing problems when she laid down, due to fluid building
up in her trachea.

  Second, after a 4 1/2 year hiatus, I'm producing kidney stones
again. I took myself to the Emergency Room, due to pulsating,
moderate to severe testicular pain. They first checked to see if
it was torsio of the testicle, which is a medical emergency. I
noted to them that I was going to have a CT Scan done at Arkansas
Urology in the coming days, so they did one there.

  They discovered 2 stones, 1 in each ureter, just above the urinary
bladder. They have since dropped into the bladder, and have grown in
size to at least 16 millimeters each (they likely are larger now).
These are NOT passable, and have to be removed by emergency surgery.

  At the moment, I'm not in that much pain, and can still urinate. I
don't want it to get to where I do get into pain, nausea, vomiting,
and where I can't urinate...that means an ambulance run to the
hospital, and surgery.

  I have yet to hear from the scheduler at the urologists office, but
I hope it can be done outpatient. Apparently, they'll first put me to
sleep (I sure hope so!!), then insert a catheter into the penis,
urethra, and bladder, then the cystoscope. With that, they can see
into the bladder, where they can break up the stones, then irrigate
the bladder to wash out the debris, and remove both the catheter and
cystoscope.

  If it's outpatient, I can spend one night at my elderly Mom's place,
before driving home the next day...unless they decide to put me in the
hospital overnight for observation.

  I'll post an update when I know something else.

Daryl

.... If you're consonated, maybe you need a vowel movement.
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