----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:22 AM Subject: Sick Nick
> Spent from 1:20 yesterday afternoon to about 8 p.m. in the E.R. with an > acute abdomen that hit me like a freight train just as a meeting was > starting. They not sure what it was, but I still feel really lousy. > Supposed to see my primary care doc today. Luckily, the ER and my doc are > only a few blocks away. Was a pretty scary day, continuous pain of 6-7 on > scale of 1-10, with two or three waves a minute that were up to 9. Thank > God for morphine - first time I've had it. Never so much pain for so long. > Never anything even close. Never found the inside of an ambulance so > reassuing to *me* -- it brought back good memories of all the people I had > reassured from the other side of the stretcher. > > Would really, really like to know what's going on, but I guess half of these > situations never are diagnosed, they just go away. Leading candidates were > appendicitis and kidney stone, but not clear enough symptoms to open me up. > > So, I'll be mostly MIA for a while. Julia has the helm, knows the backup > person (though he's been with me through most of this). > > Resolve all petty conflicts while I'm away, please, and discuss the > important stuff with patience and wisdom. Nothing like wondering if you're > gonna surive to put things in perspective. > > Sick Nick > OUCH!!!! I had a kidney stone 14 months ago or so. It hit me in 2 waves about 2 months apart. The first episode started about the time I would normally have gone to bed and kept me up the entire night. I could feel that sucker as it took its sweet time travelling from my kidney to my bladder, all sharp pains and burning. It was pretty bad and left me feeling weak for days. A couple of months later at about 4 am one saturday morning I decided to pass that sucker. It was 8 hours of the most intense pain I have ever experienced completed by hours of dry heaves and fever. I slept in an emergency room with IVs in my arm. The most expensive nap I have ever taken. When I finally passed the stone, it was tiny. Hard to believe something so small could bring you down so easily. xponent I Gave Birth To A Rock Maru rob ________________________________ You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
