KIdney Stones

                                                                           Kidney Stones
           

         A part of life I will never forget is when I had my kidney stones. It started in 2nd grade. I felt sick all the time and I missed a lot of school. I stayed home most of the time and my mom didn’t really know what was going on but she kind of ignored it. She just wanted me to go to school and she never really thought I was sick enough to stay home because I wasn’t really sick. I just felt like I was so it was kind of a waste of time to stay home but I thought was going to get sick. In 3rd grade, I went to school all year and never felt sick and same with 4th grade. It is now 5th grade and I went to school all year and at the beginning of the summer I was having really bad pain in my left side.
     So I went into the doctor and they had done x-rays on my side and they didn’t find anything. They sent me home and I just layed on the couch in pain and I didn’t eat at all. I went in again and they did an ultrasound and I had to drink a lot of water to see if they could see anything but they didn’t. I knew there had to be something wrong so they had to send the test in to the Cities. It was about 3 days later and my mom and I were playing a game. I heard the phone ring and I knew something was wrong. My mom wasn't saying anything and she came back quiet. She said the doctor from the cities was on the phone and I panicked and started crying. I just wanted to stay home and not have pain anymore. The doctor said we had to get to the Cities as soon as possible so I left Saturday morning with my mom and dad. I was really, really scared when I left with my parents. I just wanted to stay where I was and not have to leave.
    We headed to the cities and we got checked in and I didn’t want to be there so I was really upset. I had to go into this room and I was watching “Finding Nemo” and they called me to go. I was really sad that my parents had to stay behind and I had to leave them. I remember this guy was telling me a joke about a cow and then I was out. I had to go through this tunnel and the Children’s Hospital. They had to do a shock wave thithotripsy to blast my kidney stone.
    I came back and I was glad to see that my parents were there. I had to go back to this room I started in and they wanted to watch me for a little while to see if I would react to anything.
    I was persistent that we go home that night so we left the  hospital at around 11 that night. We got home around 1 and my sisters were still up waiting for me! They wanted to make sure we made it home that night. They had to put a stint in me to make sure the kidney stone would come out of me. I had that in me for about 2 weeks I think and then I went back there and had it taken out.
    That was the scariest surgery I have ever been with and I hope I never have to go through that pain again. I am glad my parents were there with me and stayed positive that this was gonna work and I would not have anymore pain. My sisters sometimes want me to be the quiet little girl I was when I had my kidney stones, but they are glad I am the girl I am today! I bug my sisters and they really want me to have my kidney stones back but they want me to stay the girl I am.



                            By: Dori Hillers