My Husband

Last Sunday my husband informed he was having back pain and so he thought that he had kidney stone again! He gets these at least once or twice a year. The pain in awful for him. Now usually he goes to the doctor after getting an x-ray and he tells him it will just have to pass. Than he tells me he has been having the pain since Friday. What and you are just telling me now two days later!! So I said he better make an appointment on Monday to go see him. Monday morning comes along and he says well I am felling better so I think the stone has passed through my kidney and is on its way. I say well you still should go to the doctor. Of course he didn't and that evening he was having the pain again. You need to go to the doctor tomorrow than I told him. So on Tuesday he called work and let his boss know what was going on and if he could take one of his floaters for the day. His boss said no problem. Well he went got his x-ray done and went to the doctor and he has two pretty good sized kidney stones so now he has to have lithotripsy. So I told him when the scheduler calls to make it on one of my days off. Does he do this, no she called said how about Monday he said that would be fine. He said I just want to get it over with, I am I understand that but I work Sunday night and Monday night so I am going to have to rush home from work take him over to the hospital run back home get my kids off to school come back take a shower and wait for him to call me to pick him up. I am not going to get any sleep that day. I understand he wants to get it over with and maybe I am being selfish, but it is hard to work nights without getting any sleep. That is why I wanted him to make it for one of my days off. Well he also has taken all this week off of work being that he is in pain and felt he couldn't do his job well. It is easy for him because he has so much time. He has five weeks a year of vacation so it was no problem for him to call his boss and ask him if he could this week as a vacation week. It isn't so simple for me to get the night off. I hate that he gets these stones all the time and I wish there was something they could give him so he doesn't. This will be the second time he has had to have lithotripsy. It isn't an invaided procedure, but still they have to put you under and what not. It takes an hour than another hour to recover. He can't drive of course. I am just not sure what I will do. I guess I can see if maybe we don't have enough patients at work and they won't need me. I want to be with my husband, but there are other things like taking my kids to school than picking them up later. If only he would have listened to me!!