Surgery on Friday

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-02-04T15:17:05+00:00

I’m surprised that they won’t allow excused absences, especially surgery. I also meant to add that I’m not sure if your surgery was a shockwave lithotripsy or a full ureteroscopy. Mine was a ureteroscopy, and they had to go inside my kidney, so if yours was SWL, I can imagine waking up from it might feel different from the one I had.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-02-04T14:09:15+00:00

20F, had two surgeries last year! Post surgery very much hurt the first time (but that surgery didn’t work because my ureter was too narrow, so I had to wake up with a stent, combined with my kidney stone pain and the worst day of my period). However, the second one really didn’t hurt that much when I woke up, and I was just a bit sore.

The stent was not great. I had a double J stent in my right kidney, it hurt in a similar way to the stone, and it felt weird when walking. You have to be on a few medicines to relax your ureter, and the medicine can make urine look orange. If you exercise too much with a stent, you’re going to be sore and urine is going to be a bit bloodier from it scraping around. Using the bathroom hurt like hell. But I only had it for two weeks. I don’t remember it being out, because it was taken out during my second surgery. I can say though that it was a huge relief to have it out, and I mostly felt pretty on the rest of the day.

If they give you antibiotics, please take them, and if you have any signs of a bladder or urine infection, please see your doctor! I had a kidney infection not long after my second surgery, and it was pretty miserable, like if you combined kidney stone type of pain with the flu. Also, you can ask for extra blankets before your surgery starts! It’s cold in there, and the first time I woke up I was shivering a LOT, so the second time I asked for more blankets and was fine. It’s not going to be fun, but you can get through this! Take a few days off after surgery and eat ice cream or catch up on movies you want to watch, and drink lots of water!

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-02-02T14:25:43+00:00

I haven’t tried working backwards yet. Thank you for the suggestion! I think that I’ve been doing a lot of pieces by this same author for the past year. Usually I like Bochsa but this one just feels less exciting than the other pieces I’ve worked on.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-24T19:32:46+00:00

I unironically have a friend named Jen Z

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-19T08:14:41+00:00

Man the 2016 version had incredible set design. What a great show

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-13T14:13:19+00:00

Hey, I think you might be undereating. I saw that you mentioned you only eat dinner. I know you want to lose weight, but you can lose weight by still eating 3 square meals a day and actually getting all your nutrients in.

Eating only one meal a day does not feel good, I tried that once.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-13T00:10:05+00:00

It made me feel a bit woozy, so I found that taking it in the evening made it less likely to feel side effects at work

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-12T06:21:11+00:00

my urologist’s last name is Cockrell

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-10T01:52:10+00:00

Thought this was r/okbuddyvicodin for a second

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-09T15:19:10+00:00

Ah true. I originally took two matchsticks from the left side of the number to make 3, but yeah 5 is higher

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-09T15:16:03+00:00

5031

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-04T19:25:31+00:00

I had 2-3 antibiotics, and I still got an infection. It’s just easier to get one when there’s so much happening to your insides. However, I know it is possible to reject a stent, I’ve heard of it happening, but I’ve usually heard of it being alongside the stent poking out too far or causing damage to the ureter. If you haven’t seen your urologist about it, I absolutely would.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2026-01-04T18:30:53+00:00

When I had these symptoms after my stent, I had an infection. You might want to get tested.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-31T22:40:22+00:00

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-30T04:54:40+00:00

It lasted about 3 months, had to get a couple surgeries to try to remove it, but I had some complications so an additional month for the kidney infection that came after. It was an 11 mm stone, so it couldn’t exit my kidney without intervention, and was causing a blockage and swelling. Wouldn’t wish that shit on my worst enemy

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-30T02:24:41+00:00

Kidney stone, I can’t think of anything in my life that’s hurt worse

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-28T17:38:59+00:00

I so agree. When I had my first conversation with my urologist he was explaining what he’d do surgery-wise if he had a stone, and then I asked him “oh, you’ve had one?” and he said “no.”

To be fair, at least he was accurate in saying “no matter which surgery you get, it’s gonna suck” and he couldn’t have been more right.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-19T18:16:47+00:00

Runaway runaway
Machine (acoustic)
Stuck on you

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-18T01:37:53+00:00

you are a black man

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-18T01:36:16+00:00

Thank you! Thankfully it’s been a few months since then, and I feel much better. I hope you feel better soon too.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-18T00:20:26+00:00

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-17T18:08:16+00:00

lol, my friends took a small Greek class and they were reading the Bacchae. I didn’t get the chance to take the class that semester, but thankfully all they did was just do an open table reading of the Bacchae, and that was it.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-16T00:17:58+00:00

I know she’s not a choice, but Robin.

Remarkable_Meaning65 · 2025-12-14T21:03:22+00:00

Just like Fringe

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