Last Monday night, Tracy and the kids went to the Outer Banks for an unplanned vacation. The beach house that we borrowed two weeks ago was available and school was out so off they went. She was accompanied by her friend Dawn Johnson and her kids. The next day, Tracy had extreme pain in her left side and collapsed at the house. Dawn called 911 and Tracy had an ambulance ride to a local urgent care center. The x-rays showed a kidney stone of some size (~9 mm).
When I found out, I took off for the beach and arrived later that night. On the way down I was able to talk to her and discovered that the urgent care center recommended that she go the The Outer Banks Hospital first thing in the morning. They also told her that she would most likely require laproscopic surgey to remove the stone.
We got to the hospital the next morning only to find out that hospital did not have a Urologist on staff and really couldn't handle her situation. Lesson: Don't get sick in the Outer Banks. They did do a CATscan and told us that she was in no immediate danger and recommended that she return home to her usual medical facilities. The CATscan showed that the kidney stone was actually 7mm in diameter which is probably too big to pass on its own. They also told us that surgery was very unlikely and that a sonic procedure was the likely solution. I only hope that when we get to our doctors in VA we don't get a third opinion.
After several prescriptions for painkillers were filled we went home for the day. Tracy was able to stay off the painkillers on Thursday for the ride back home and although it took much longer than planned we made it safely. As of this writing we are still tryin to get her in to see a doctor but plan to get all this done on Monday.
Back in North Carolina, Grandpa Pete has returned home but I don't know how he is doing at the moment.
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