I’m Stoned!
Monday
Apr 2, 2007
I had the scare of my life last Saturday morning. I woke up with a very acute pain in my right abdomen. I immediately thought it might be appendicitis. I just rested it out and the pain went away after about three hours. (Yes, that’s why I wasn’t able to go to the Blog Awards night).
Yesterday during dinnertime, the pain came back so I decided to go to the emergency room already. I was able to drive myself to St. Luke’s (though not without the usual impatience associated with being in extreme pain) along with my mom (financier, ehem, ehem) and brother BA (backup driver, in case I wanted to die of a heart attack instead).
Doctors initially thought I had gallstones, and thank God they ruled out appendicitis. But they then concluded from tests that I had kidney stones–either they’ve already passed through, they’re still passing through, or they can’t pass through. The next few days I’ll get some more tests done so we can pinpoint exactly where the little critters are, and how to go about with treatment. As far as I’m concerned getting cut open is a last resort.
So I’m stoned, so to speak. Actually, this is the same condition my wife, Caren, had a couple of years ago. Now I know how bad it feels.
If you’ve been missing me the past few days, you now know why I’ve been away from the action. I’m stoned.
J. Angelo Racoma is a technology journalist and blogger. See more of his blog posts here at racoma.com.ph, commentaries at racoma.net, and Twitter feed at @jangelo.
Comments
Alex
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Hey, get well soon, man. Wishing you well.
jhay
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Whoah! Hope you have a speedy recovery.
ade
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
That sucks. Get well soon.
Corsarius
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:48 am
Kidney stones? Aren’t they more…onerous to cope with compared to appendicitis?
My mom had them way way back then. Good ol’ ultrasound removed them fast, though.
Get well soon, J!
vance
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:37 pm
hope you get well soon. I thought you did some thing illegal… hehe..
ba
April 4th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Almost died from boredom. 9 hours?? Hahahaha. Good thing you brought your iPod. And good thing Kim Possible was in there. :p
J. Angelo Racoma
April 4th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.
Yes, it sucks, but it made me find the need to make some changes in my life (like no more binge eating, and taking in more water).
Corsarius, I think appendicitis is worse because it’s usually an emergency case (i.e., you need surgery ASAP or else your appendix will inevitably burst and kill you by shock or blood poisoning!).
Vance, if I were doing something illegal, I would keep it to myself.
BA, I have the latest (season 4) episodes but I haven’t copied them to the iPod yet.
mr nice ash
April 4th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
get well soon. i think i’m getting stoned too in the next days…
haven’t had a checkup yet…
benj
April 6th, 2007 at 10:02 am
What’s with stones and bloggers? I know of three bloggers who has had stones in the past few weeks. This makes for an interesting medical article.
Get well soon, man.