As though the whole "I can't pee!" phenomenon wasn't bad enough, last night it got better. Tom was in bed, Connor was asleep, and I was finishing up a few chores before bed for myself. I was just finishing with the dishes and when I bent over to put the detergent in I started to get a cramp in my back just under my ribs. I've felt similar pains before so I moved along putting the dogs out and checking Connor one last time for the night. It didn't let up though, and started getting worse. So finally I thought I should go sit on the toilet (still with the catheter in place.)
In minutes the pain got worse and worse to the point where I was crying out for Tom to help me. He slept through it until I crawled from the bathroom to the bed and woke him up. At first he just sat there on the edge of the bed half asleep saying he was sorry the catheter was bothering me so much. I couldn't seem to get through to him that this WAS NOT the catheter, but something new. I think finally seeing the amount of bloody urine in the bag helped get that across.
After calling L&D and waking up our neighbor Rick to come sleep on the couch while we went to the hospital we finally started heading in. The pain was on par if not worse then the back labor I had experienced with Connor. I felt like I was going to pass out, I had a trash can in my lap in case I puked. The whole time I could feel the pain moving lower and then more quickly that it came, it was gone. We were JUST crossing the bridge with the hospital in sight. The whole process took about 90 minutes.
The best they can guess is that I passed a kidney stone. By the time I got there I was simply embarrassed and there wasn't anything to be done. They checked the baby, did an exam on me and blessedly took the stupid catheter out. It turns out the bulb holding it in wasn't completely inflated and even Tom thinks that is why I was having so many problems. Of course there was a lot of talk about "proving" my bladder and what to do if I hadn't peed by morning. No need to worry there. I barely made it home and had time to get my filter (to look for the stone) set up.
I think that is enough excitement for one pregnancy.
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