Santa brought me a nice robe and pair of socks very early Christmas morning! It was the breezy, open-in-the-back kind that hospitals give you when you go to the ER.
I spent most of December 24th and Christmas morning at Hermann Memorial Hospital because my old Kidney Stone. The pain started showing up on Wednesday and gradually got worse by Thursday (24th) morning. Around 1 p.m. I finally decided to go to the ER and see if I could get some pain meds. After a CAT scan and blood tests, the doctor said this kidney stone was too big to pass so I’d have to have surgery. What?!
So I get a fun ride in an Ambulance to another Methodist Hospital (610 & Ella) and spend a night of misery in a hospital room (no visitors due to Covid19). Surgery which was scheduled at 8:30 a.m. on Christmas morning, but I was awake at 5 a.m. and trying on this new robe…
All went well. They put me out for about 1 hour even though it literally only seemed like 2 or 3 seconds to me. I woke up to some blood and pain, but fixed up (for now) and ready to check out of the hospital. I must say, the staff at the hospital did a GREAT job throughout my entire ordeal. Everyone was very attentive and jovial and seemed to be happy to be there. I thanked them for working on Christmas eve and morning.
Holly comes to pick me up, and back to the house we go for some Christmas dinner. Jane comes over as well, and the ladies cook up a 13 lb. turkey and lots of stuff(ing) to go with it. We also opened our presents and enjoy eating by an open-fire outside in the back yard (great weather today with temps at 70 and blue skies on Christmas day!). I didn’t take many pictures because, frankly, I was exhausted from this Kidney Stone ordeal and a bit loopy on pain meds.
Twas the night before surgery 
Our tree! Yes, we decorated the house this year.
It was certainly a different Christmas experience this year…. for me, anyway. One I’ll certainly never forgot.
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Update 12/31/2020:
Okay, they sent me home with some medications and an appointment to return Dec. 31st So I did. Surgery happened on a rainy new year’s eve about noon. They prepped me and laid me on a bed and gave me anesthesia … that’s all that I remember.
Woke up without kidney stones! Oh, thank God!
What a fitting ending to such a weird year that is 2020. I spent both Christmas eve and day in the hospital, as well as New Year’s eve.
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