Me

Well here is a little update on myself, which I have never done before. I have not really told very many people about what has been going on with me the last few months, I was kind of hoping that things would just subside on their own. Unfortunately that will not be happening any time soon. So here goes, in the last 8 weeks I have been diagnosed with 7 UTI's (bladder infections), have been on 11 different antibiotics and by about 5pm I am pretty much out of commission for the rest of the day. I know I probably sound dramatic, but I can't begin to describe how worthless I have felt since January. Poor Jeff is picking up all of the slack for what I am not managing to do. So anyway, I went in for a CAT scan yesterday and found out that I have a pretty large kidney stone in my left kidney, I guess this has been the cause of my misery. I am still not feeling that confident that this is my only problem, I guess we will see. So I am going in on the 10th for Cystoscopy and from there I will have a Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy .  What a Lithotripsy does is blast the stone into small enough pieces that they will come though on their own, in hopes that no surgery will be needed. I have heard of people who have had kidney stones and the pain they are in when they pass them. I had not heard of the situations where a kidney stone is too large to pass and the pain that causes and potential harm to your kidney.  So that is what I have been dealing with lately, if anything changes I will post about it. Thank you everyone for your concern for me. I feel lucky to have so many wonderful friends!