Listen to your wife

[JPWH 6,251]

Some of you know or met my son James. He was having trouble passing a kidney stone while we were at the big show. Sunday evening he started feeling bad and running a fever. Monday and Tuesday he was not improving so when he seemed to be getting worse on Wednesday his wife drug him to the hospital.

He had evidently passed an infected Kidney stone that caused a septic condition. After all the tests were done he had kidney infection, sepsis, pneumonia, and e coli. His white blood count was up to 36000, oxygen level in the 80s without oxygen. He was on iv and oxygen for three days. He finally got out of the hospital yesterday but will be on antibiotics for a minimum of twe weeks.

[rjg854 11,879]

Glad to hear that it sounds like the worst has passed.  Praying for a full recovery.

[Ed Kennell 40,470]

So sorry , those kidney stones can be rough enough without infection.        Thanks to Mrs. P for getting James the help he needed.     Glad he's on the road to recovery.

[Pullstart 64,531]

Wow, I’d have never known of his troubles at the show..  Sounds like rough stuff going on and he kept on trucking!

[CCW 1,333]

Never, ever, tease anyone who has had to deal with a kidney stone.  I feel for him.  Worse pain I ever experienced.  Nurse in the hospital told me she has done both childbirth and a kidney stone.  Said she would do childbirth again. 

[Darb1964 1,093]

I've had many kidney stones over the years, one this past winter,  they suck. Two years ago while tedding hay in a very uneven field I started getting terrible kidney pain. I tried working through it because the friends I do hay with count on me doing the tractor work while they are at work. I have MS and can't do manual labour. I finally called my wife to come get me, she had to drive into the field to get me I got so I couldn't even drive the tractor, luckily one of my friends got out early and is strong. Wouldn't been able to get in the car with out him. Infected kidney stone I had many UTI leading up to that day. I was in the hospital for ten days on antibiotics. I've been on antibiotic since then. Infectious disease doctor was called in that saved my life. Infected kidney stone is very dangerous and life threatening.

[Darb1964 1,093]

21 minutes ago, CCW said:

Never, ever, tease anyone who has had to deal with a kidney stone.  I feel for him.  Worse pain I ever experienced.  Nurse in the hospital told me she has done both childbirth and a kidney stone.  Said she would do childbirth again. 

That's the same thing a nurse told me when I was in the hospital with an infected kidney stone.

[Wheel-N-It 2,971]

4 hours ago, rjg854 said:

Glad to hear that it sounds like the worst has passed.  Praying for a full recovery.

 

Yes jay, definitely lifting your son up in prayer 

[Ed Kennell 40,470]

2 hours ago, CCW said:

Worse pain I ever experienced.

 

   Same here.   I had to wait two weeks to get a slot on the lithotripsy machine to bust up my 5/8X1/2 inch boulder.    

I avoid taking pain meds, but if I wouldn't have had the oxi., I would have taken the .357 mag.

[lynnmor 7,559]

20 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

   Same here.   I had to wait two weeks to get a slot on the lithotripsy machine to bust up my 5/8X1/2 inch boulder.    

I avoid taking pain meds, but if I wouldn't have had the oxi., I would have taken the .357 mag.

 

I took some oxi for my knee replacements and kidney stones.  The stone breakup machine failed so they manually did it thru the plumbing, fortunately they put me under for that.

[wallfish 17,492]

Glad to hear James is OK. Really enjoy talking with you guys at the show. The young'ns really seemed to enjoy themselves there too.

As far as listening to the wife, OK for this type of stuff. Anything about not buying tractors and stuff like that, NO WAY!

[squonk 42,522]