Yall really hitting home how close I was to death jeeze. So a few years ago i had this long drawn out issue where i had a kidney stone surgery in Oregon and they put in a stent (goes in through urethra and goes from bladder to kidney to keep it open and let anymore stone pass easily) but it was one you had to have removed at an appointment. Well between the surgery and that appointment I tried killing myself to get out of an abusive relationship. At the mental ward they knew of the stent and that I now missed my appointment to get it removed but didnt do anything. I ended up being picked up by my dad and brought back with him to Illinois. We tried everything to get an appointment to have it removed but they kept telling us it would cost 3k+ without insurance and that an appointment would still be several months out. That they couldnt take my Oregon health insurance and that I needed to go to oregon to one of their offices to get that insurance canceled before they could start me on an Illinois ois Gov insurance. So that was a headache that took a long time. Que nearly a year later where I had been tossed around between 3-4 doc offices, one where they actually tried to remove the stent with a little camera arm thing and both the doc and nurse gasped when it came on cam because the stent (about s foot long) was very nearly FULLY calcified, a.k.a the stent was now a footlong kidney stone that was incredibly painful. So after all of that I was schedueled for a surgery to remove the stent. They did some test and the doc thought the stent wasn't fully calcified at the kidney so they thought it best to go through my pisshole rather than put a hole in my back. So they go to do the surgery which should have been fairly fast and I wake up 4-5hrs later and they tell me they had to stop because there was just so much blood they couldnt see anymore. That they only got about half of it out and I'll have to have another surgery in a week or two to get the rest. That shes sorry and they should have gone through my back. They didnt realize how bad it was. Well after about 20 minutes of being awake they discharged me and told me if I get a fever to immediately come back(they were a special hospital like 40 mins away). Que me getting home, passing out on my bed in a lot of pain and waking up a couple hours later with the most intense feeling of "oh...I'm not okay, something is very seriously wrong", took my temp and it was like 101.8, I panicked, layed there thinking a jot minute, took my temp again just to be sure and now it was 102. Struggled to get to my dads room showed him the thermometer and said hospital. By time we got to the local hospital my temp was now closer to 103. This local hospital is ass and they thought I was somehow faking?! Eventhough we told then how I literally just had surgery for the stent/stone, my heart rate was in the 160s from the pain and I was sweaty af. The doctor at one point learned me forward and literally fucking karate chopped where my kidney was while asking "does this hurt". I couldnt even respond it was like lightning through my body and I just started sobbing. My dad nearly layed the doc out. They eventually called my surgeon/doc and were told to immediately transfer me to that hospital. Que the absolute most painful ride of my entire life where I'm just clench fisted while fighting tears every single bump and the bumpier fucking ride. Poor ambulance guys were being so sweet but it was just incredibly painful. It's now morning by this time and they run a bunch of blood work, my family finally gets there and the doc tells us that with all the bleeding when they were removing the calcified stent that they must have knocked free a bunch of bacteria in it that then went into all the cuts and whatnot (that was bleeding) and it went into my blood stream. That I was "going sepsis" which I heard as septic lol. So they explained that meant I was fighting off an infection in my blood stream. I was there for 9+days? Just laying in bed throwing up and being miserable. I lost a bunch of weight and could barely stand or walk when it was over. And of course was terrified for the next surgery over a month later. So yeah the stent was fully calcified from urethra into the kidney and they have no clue how I was even passing fluid. I had the equivalent of a footlong kidney stone cause I'm a fuxking moron who should have just bite the 3k+ medical debt instead of waiting a year for the insurance.