Time to vent...

Overall things are great, but I've been pretty frustrated the last couple of weeks. I have had a kidney stone just hanging out in my left kidney for 6 years. It developed during chemo and has just become my little dormant side kick. Well... It's decided to move and shake things up a bit.

People get kidney stones all the time and they vary as far as pain and intensity. Last week I had one night and day that it hurt like a son of a gun. No sleeping, no breaks in the pain... All sorts of fun. Finally it moved or something and I had times of no pain and times of little pain. It's been kind of alternating between it hurts and I forget its there. 

My stress relief is exercise. A kidney stone does not like exercise. This time of year is hectic at school with seniors trying to graduate and kids bouncing off the walls with the sun out, and it's just always stressful for me. I apparently have not been managing my stress well because I had a breakdown yesterday and last night. I feel better sanity wise today, but now there's a headache and some throwing up. I don't think of myself as sickly, but twice in the last 2 weeks I've had to be gone from school which means everybody else has to rework their schedes to bail me out. Irritating. I'm guessing today's sick is my body telling me I need a break. I'm annoyed and saying the f word a lot...

I have bloodwork today at 3 to make sure all the cancer stuff is cruising along. My kidneys don't hurt today. I haven't thrown up in a few hours. Hopefully we've hit the bottom and we're working our way back up.