Clyde's Trials

We had a busy week - Tuesday Temple, Wed a shower and a ward party, Thursday the BYU Spectacular.
Wed evening I waited for Clyde to return from his night class before I left for the baby shower and he was to attend the ward party. At 6:50 pm he walks in and tells me his lower back really hurts and he thinks he has another kidney stone!
He has had two before, usually the pain begins in the middle of the night and we end up at the ER getting pain shots by IV. This time, he took some pain relievers he had left over from gall bladder surgery last summer. I went to the shower in Cedar Hills for Jill Jackson Smith. At 8:15 he called and said he had talked to his doctor and he told him to take more pain relievers. 7 minutes later Clyde calls and wants to go to Urgent care. I was 25 minutes away! Clyde called Tom Draper, who kindly took him to a nearby urgent care and I met Clyde there. Two pain shots later, he was home and in bed by 10 pm. We were hoping for pain relief through the night. It was kind of a rough night with Clyde getting up a lot since he had been drinking so much water and the pain was back about 4 pm. More pain pills and about 6 am Clyde passed a very small stone.
He feels ok to go teach his Thursday 8 am class, came home for a three hour nap, and then back to teach a 3 pm class. Kind of achy still in the back, handled by Advil. We met Grant and Mary for dinner and the BYU spectacular and got home at 10 pm. Friday Clyde had more back pan in the am so he took the heavy duty pain pills - found out his urologist is out of the office for a month! Friday was a really bad day, pain and such. He did not eat much and spent the evening nauseated -- got to sleep about 2:30 am.
Saturday the back pain is getting sharp again so it seems another kidney stone is present. We finally went to the ER since we knew we would get blood and urine tests and probably a CT scan. The general doctor on Friday was booked and only offered to call in more pan pills! After 2 1/2 hours, we learned that Clyde still had a kidney stone about 2mm in size and about to pass to the bladder, and on. We are Still waiting for it to pass -- still drinking tons of water, still taking Advil and not too much of the heavy duty pain pills. Got to watch the BYU game at home on the TV -- this was ok because it RAINED! Looking forward to going to bed early tonight, hoping the stone will pass soon and this trial will be over!!! One thing we learned at the ER: the Advil bottle says no more than six pills in 24 hours, but in the hospital they regularly prescribe 16 pills ( 4 every 4 hours) over a 24 hour period. Good to know for severe pain.