Design Wall and a Day in the Life....of my idiot husband

My design wall had the Paperweights and it is growing slowly.  I took out my vases hanging to look at for a while.  You know how that goes.

Paperweights

The Vases

The Vases was a Round Robin project with my CyberSisters group.  There were 8 of us and I designed a wall hanging since they did not want a quilt UFO.  I had everyone make a vase for their center.  The center was to guide the rest of the work.

Then I worked out an elaborate way the pieces criss crossed Texas, LA, MO, AR and MS to have sections added.  They were all different and they were all beautiful.  I wanted to make mine into a lap quilt but at least one of them finished hers in a hanging.

I wanted to work on The Vases and Paperweights today as well as put another quilt on the frame.  I have completed the quilting on three quilts this week during hurricane Isaac (Plaid Bargello has ecru binding, The Dogs have a black/white/red facing and The River City Mystery Quilt has a self binding).  So the frame is empty, and looking for another victim.

The dogs - needs binding sewn

It was not to be.  I spent 2 1/2 hours with Frank at the Doc in the Box and 5 hours at the ER where he was having severe pains in his waist area.  He never is in pain, even a headache so I was not sure that he really was just not having a flu episode.  But no vomiting and no diarrhea.  Doc in the Box was puzzled, gave him an antispasmodic and sent us home saying if he was still in pain by 4 or 5 PM to head to the ER.

So at 4:30 we head to the ER.   Three doctors, two nurses and 4 tests later, it is determined that he has a kidney stone.  No one thought of it because he was not presenting in the normal way.

AND because he is an idiot.  They ask him to rate his pain 1 to 10 and he says 12.  Doc says, there is no way because you would be doubled over on to the floor.

AND because he is an idiot.  They ask him to describe his pain as: stabbing, hot, cold, waves, clamping, etc.  He says constant.....not a word they have offered him and not describing the type of pain.

Plaid Bargello needs binding sewn

AND because he is an idiot.  They ask him to point to where the pain is located and he says it is in his stomach and he rubs under his rib cage.  Stomach.  Kidney stone pain is generally in the lower abdomen and can be in the back or toward the man parts.  Not the stomach.

But he is pacing and 5 hours later the nurse says to the third doctor........he won't take pain medication and he is pacing, what can I do for him.  The doc says.....pacing?  Let's look for kidney stones.

 And Voila!  We have kidney stones.  And I ordered him to take a pain med and he was amazed that his pain eased.  Idiot.  He is so afraid of being addicted because his mother told him he shouldn't take an aspirin because he could become addicted.

So the doc had a heart to heart talk with him.  He needs to take the pain med BEFORE the pain gets worse over the next 48 hours.  If you wait till the pain gets bad it will not work.  Take it  BEFORE.

So now he sits with it in his hand.  He is, in his mind, debating what is pain.

I think I need one of those pills, I should just sleep through it all.

glen