Promotions, Kidney Stones, and Surgery

Sorry I've been MIA for a while. Things have been nutty busy around here.

My husband got a promotion at work to a much better job that he will really enjoy - and he no longer has to take "on call" duty, which is awesome. So congratulations to him! I hope he really has fun with the new job!

That's it for the good news though. I've been struggling with kidney stones mightily for the last 3 weeks. After WAY too much radiation [a CT scan, an X-ray, and an "IVP" procedure], it has been determined that I have two kidney stones in my left kidney [which I knew - and these are particularly painful, more so than the ones I've had in the past] and they are partially obstructing my kidney and aren't passing on their own.

I am going to have to have surgery next week to remove them. They are low in my pelvis so the "sound wave" treatment thing won't work well enough most likely, so we are just going to do the surgery. It is outpatient, but I do have to be put under General Anesthesia to do it, so I don't like that part. It doesn't sound too bad otherwise, as far as surgeries go. LOL!

Anyway, hopefully I will be back soon and thinking of fun or interesting things to share in this blog, but not right now... ;)

I would appreciate any prayers you might be willing to offer for a successful surgery and safe recovery, and also for my kids. They are pretty freaked out about me going in to surgery [the last time their mama went into the hospital she was gone for 3 weeks and almost died and came home all brain damaged...] Also, the Baby Monkey could use some prayers because she's still nursing and I think I won't be able to nurse her after the surgery for some amount of time...I have to research that more though!