Today started off quiet and pretty standard. The only thing of interest was that my in-laws decided they were going to come up for a surprise visit that even had Wife a little nervous because her mom called late on Saturday and just said they were going to come up for a little while to visit but gave no reason why. Wife was so taken by this that she started texting her sisters trying to figure out what she had done that had her folks wanting to come up to see her. Turns out they had bought Wife a wreath for Christmas with the Nightmare Before Christmas theme to it. It was very pretty, made of black and white ribbons and bows with a big Jack dressed as Santa Claus sitting in the middle. My mother in law was so proud of the gift she decided she wanted to bring it early before Christmas so Wife could hang it up to display.
While this was going on, Boy came down to say hi to everyone and even managed to serve everyone a sample of the apple cider he spent about three hours making from scratch the night before. He seemed fine, talked to everyone, and was sitting on the stairs playing with DD's dog. A few minutes later while Wife was telling some story, Sweetie came down from upstairs and said Boy was on the floor writhing in pain. We went up to see him and he said he had just gone to the bathroom and while pooping he started feeling a pain in the left side of his abdomen that was excruciating. We gave him a minute to see if it would subside and when it seemed to calm down a bit, he got up and hurried to the car. Sweetie tried taking him to Austin Regional Clinic but it was closed. They ended up at St. David's, which is the closest major hospital to us. He was admitted fairly quickly, they did some tests and determined he had a 3mm kidney stone. He was given Fentanyl after morphine was not enough to stop the pain of whatever they did to run the tests. Sweetie said she was about four rooms away and could clearly hear him screaming down the hall.
He came home a little loopy and went straight up and to sleep for the next 4-5 hours. We were a little worried but considering he had been fine before as far as we knew, we didn't have much time to up and worry it might be something worse. We didn't even bother trying to go since we live in Covid-19 times and hospitals are a big no-no. Sweetie did great, she took him and even went into the room with him since he was in so much pain, they allowed her. She got him back home, with his prescription medicines already with them and then they went up to nap. He came down finally around 11:30pm saying he was feeling okay at the moment. He also said he had finally pissed twice, something he had not been able to do all day long. I am not sure if at this point he has already passed the stone, but the doctors said it is more than halfway through and all we can do is wait for it to make its journey which should happen within 36 hours. I would hope it moved out with his two pissing events but maybe the worst is yet to come. He was told to expect some blood and pain as it makes its way out. I feel bad for Mijo, but there isn't much we can do for him. Hopefully, it is a one time thing and it goes away.
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