NakedEye Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 5 hours ago, KVG_DC said: Hah. As someone who had kidney stone surgery involving a cystoscopy this summer (nothing as serious as hostrauser's journey) You haven’t truly lived until you’ve done that while on tour with a drum corps. Definitely not my favorite moment of the tour. 😂🤦♀️ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KVG_DC Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) 58 minutes ago, NakedEye said: You haven’t truly lived until you’ve done that while on tour with a drum corps. Definitely not my favorite moment of the tour. 😂🤦♀️ TW: old man medical stuff. Yeah I've passed a number of stones before, this one didn't wanna go out. Got all active on the Tuesday before Memorial Day weekend and I'm due to leave the country for Zimbabwe in literally 13 days. I called my usual urologist.. "I'm leaving this practice so my schedule is locked...try these folks." 'These folks' are all "sure we can see you in late august!" That Friday it got nasty...right before the three day weekend of course. So...yeah I'm going to the ER, how big, where, etc. I wanna know before I'm on a 22 hours in the air trip to a nation where I'm not sure the health care I'd get would be all that great if I needed it. 6mm...and it looks stuck. Lovely. I explain the trip and such, the ER doc says, yeah we need the urologist on call to see things. Urologist on call "yeah, that needs to come out by surgery." Schedulers are gone for the weekend...we've put a message in for them to call you on Tuesday to schedule to see a urologist who is a stone specialist, if they don't call, start calling them Wednesday morning. Yeah, no. I know how that game works. Tuesday at 8 AM I start the calling festival and sit through menu and answering machine hell for 3 hours before FINALLY getting to someone who can set up a virtual appointment for "right now" at 12:30 PM. I've answered this from my cell phone on the way back from the laundromat "gimme 5 min to dash home" which I do, with a stone stuck...ow. Doc never sends the link. More phone menu and answering machine hell... "Do you have another email address?" Sure I give them my work address and they say the doc will try at 4:45 at the end of the day. This time I get a link. Doc apologizes for having been pulled away to an emergency, so the scheduler's story about the email being sent was entirely made up to cover him... but he was honest at least. He looks at everything in the ER chart and the timing of the trip. "yeah you're needing that out before you go." Dude...it's Tuesday...I'm to leave monday. If I have to cancel this I need to know pretty much NOW to let others going the alternate plans for the stuff I'm supposed to do over there. "I'm going to try to get you in on Friday, you'll be fine for flying on Monday" {insert Fry "not sure if serious meme here"}. Then he calls back and "I just found an opening at another hospital location we can do this tomorrow at noon." SCHNAP! Let's do it. Scheduler calls back, "We can't do Friday but the following week on Wednesday we could." That would pretty much leave me some recovery then like 4 days of flying for 3 days of being in Zimbabwe...yeah...that kills the trip. I'm like "Doc called me back after that call and said he'd booked me for tomorrow at noon at this location." She looks into it..."Oh yeah, there it is." I show up there at noon for check in and processing and get sent around to three different places within the hospital because I'm not in their system....I'm pretty much freaking out. Then "oh, there's an outpatient surgery center over there." And lo and behold that's where I'm to be. [a few hours later] I'm at home under drugs peein blood for a couple days with a stent in my ureter. It's not great but after the blood stuff calms down by Friday evening, I actually feel better than I have in what..months? Everything's tender though and the stent is...annoying. But I got two days before flying and feel like I can. Trip goes off without a hitch although the stent was ... ugh. I"m living on ibuprofen and some relaxers/dilators to keep the music flowing though too. But the trip was fabulous for all that needed to be done. Even got to celebrate my birthday with a trip up a pilgrimage mountain and have a massive group of Zimbabwen women serenade me with happy birthday. Good times. I come back and had to delay going out to visit my dad by a week because...this stent has to come out. I had been told "follow up" but was under the impression the follow up was just a 'check up' cause the doc had said the stent could stay until I got back from visiting dad. Then when confirming it I noticed "cystoscopy room". Uh...is this the stent removal? Because I scheduled my flight to visit my dad for that afternoon after the 10 AM appointment, I was going to go from the office to the airport. Scheduler, "Oh that's fine, you'll be fine to fly." {insert Fry 'not sure if serious' meme again}. I'm thinking LADY....I know y'all have children come out of your lower areas and such so men are by comparison pretty much wusses, and we are. But you're talking about having a tube pulled out of me with nothing but a local and I go right to the airport to fly? Nah...I reschedule my flight for two days later. The worst of it was waiting the week to get to the stent removal appointment. I swear the stent was more annoying when I was back stateside than when I was in Zimbabwe...but that was probably cause I was trying to wean myself off the Ibuprofen. I said "screw it" the day before the removal and went back to 800mg doses and chilled out. Stent came out...it was every bit as disgusting as I expected. I COULD have gone right to the airport and flown without too much physical discomfort, but I was glad to have had the extra days so I didn't have to stress out getting there. So...having had the colonoscopy/endoscopy double at age 51 followed by a follow up endoscopy to ensure the stomach sphincter stuff was settled, then this...I've had all the --scopy holes done. Woo. But again, it's not like beating cancer. Hostrauser is ######! Edited July 17, 2023 by KVG_DC 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwellian Wiress Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 @KVG_DC I hope you're alright. You're a great member that contributes a lot to this forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KVG_DC Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Just now, Orwellian Wiress said: @KVG_DC I hope you're alright. You're a great member that contributes a lot to this forum. Oh I'm fine. I just pee rocks. It's not great. This time I had to have it pulled out of me after some pew pew pew laser work. which was even less great. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flugelswerebugels Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 So great to see you back, Hostrauer. I hope you are able to be around until all the corps are animatronic and levitating constantly. Your commentary will elevate to the same level, as it always has in the past. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllianaLancerContra Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 2 hours ago, KVG_DC said: TW: old man medical stuff. Yeah I've passed a number of stones before, this one didn't wanna go out. Got all active on the Tuesday before Memorial Day weekend and I'm due to leave the country for Zimbabwe in literally 13 days. I called my usual urologist.. "I'm leaving this practice so my schedule is locked...try these folks." 'These folks' are all "sure we can see you in late august!" That Friday it got nasty...right before the three day weekend of course. So...yeah I'm going to the ER, how big, where, etc. I wanna know before I'm on a 22 hours in the air trip to a nation where I'm not sure the health care I'd get would be all that great if I needed it. 6mm...and it looks stuck. Lovely. I explain the trip and such, the ER doc says, yeah we need the urologist on call to see things. Urologist on call "yeah, that needs to come out by surgery." Schedulers are gone for the weekend...we've put a message in for them to call you on Tuesday to schedule to see a urologist who is a stone specialist, if they don't call, start calling them Wednesday morning. Yeah, no. I know how that game works. Tuesday at 8 AM I start the calling festival and sit through menu and answering machine hell for 3 hours before FINALLY getting to someone who can set up a virtual appointment for "right now" at 12:30 PM. I've answered this from my cell phone on the way back from the laundromat "gimme 5 min to dash home" which I do, with a stone stuck...ow. Doc never sends the link. More phone menu and answering machine hell... "Do you have another email address?" Sure I give them my work address and they say the doc will try at 4:45 at the end of the day. This time I get a link. Doc apologizes for having been pulled away to an emergency, so the scheduler's story about the email being sent was entirely made up to cover him... but he was honest at least. He looks at everything in the ER chart and the timing of the trip. "yeah you're needing that out before you go." Dude...it's Tuesday...I'm to leave monday. If I have to cancel this I need to know pretty much NOW to let others going the alternate plans for the stuff I'm supposed to do over there. "I'm going to try to get you in on Friday, you'll be fine for flying on Monday" {insert Fry "not sure if serious meme here"}. Then he calls back and "I just found an opening at another hospital location we can do this tomorrow at noon." SCHNAP! Let's do it. Scheduler calls back, "We can't do Friday but the following week on Wednesday we could." That would pretty much leave me some recovery then like 4 days of flying for 3 days of being in Zimbabwe...yeah...that kills the trip. I'm like "Doc called me back after that call and said he'd booked me for tomorrow at noon at this location." She looks into it..."Oh yeah, there it is." I show up there at noon for check in and processing and get sent around to three different places within the hospital because I'm not in their system....I'm pretty much freaking out. Then "oh, there's an outpatient surgery center over there." And lo and behold that's where I'm to be. [a few hours later] I'm at home under drugs peein blood for a couple days with a stent in my ureter. It's not great but after the blood stuff calms down by Friday evening, I actually feel better than I have in what..months? Everything's tender though and the stent is...annoying. But I got two days before flying and feel like I can. Trip goes off without a hitch although the stent was ... ugh. I"m living on ibuprofen and some relaxers/dilators to keep the music flowing though too. But the trip was fabulous for all that needed to be done. Even got to celebrate my birthday with a trip up a pilgrimage mountain and have a massive group of Zimbabwen women serenade me with happy birthday. Good times. I come back and had to delay going out to visit my dad by a week because...this stent has to come out. I had been told "follow up" but was under the impression the follow up was just a 'check up' cause the doc had said the stent could stay until I got back from visiting dad. Then when confirming it I noticed "cystoscopy room". Uh...is this the stent removal? Because I scheduled my flight to visit my dad for that afternoon after the 10 AM appointment, I was going to go from the office to the airport. Scheduler, "Oh that's fine, you'll be fine to fly." {insert Fry 'not sure if serious' meme again}. I'm thinking LADY....I know y'all have children come out of your lower areas and such so men are by comparison pretty much wusses, and we are. But you're talking about having a tube pulled out of me with nothing but a local and I go right to the airport to fly? Nah...I reschedule my flight for two days later. The worst of it was waiting the week to get to the stent removal appointment. I swear the stent was more annoying when I was back stateside than when I was in Zimbabwe...but that was probably cause I was trying to wean myself off the Ibuprofen. I said "screw it" the day before the removal and went back to 800mg doses and chilled out. Stent came out...it was every bit as disgusting as I expected. I COULD have gone right to the airport and flown without too much physical discomfort, but I was glad to have had the extra days so I didn't have to stress out getting there. So...having had the colonoscopy/endoscopy double at age 51 followed by a follow up endoscopy to ensure the stomach sphincter stuff was settled, then this...I've had all the --scopy holes done. Woo. But again, it's not like beating cancer. Hostrauser is ######! Golly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KVG_DC Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said: Golly. Peein' rocks is nasty business, Mr. Potter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Welcome back! You were missed, and we wish you continued health! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContraFart Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 God Bless you sir! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummergirl Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Hof, I need to send you a private message one day. Your story is eerily similar to mine. Same cancer - colon, same stage - stage 4, same spread a liver (also lymph nodes and lungs), same diagnosis date - Aug 2022, almost same age at diagnosis - 44 (turned 45 in Oct). and we both love the 1993 drum corps season! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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