Recently, my husband Ray had a health problem.
Through this experience, I really realized that if we are having Healthy bodies right now, it's the happiest thing in life.
It may sound obvious but if we can live in the moment, without pain and struggle , and keep having a healthy body , this is one of the greatest things in life.
Every time when health problems arise, we can realize more about it.
Emergency
It happened early in the morning around 2 am on May 29.
He looked fine in the morning on May 28, and also after came back from his work at night.
We usually stay up late in our daily life, but in that day, he went to bed earlier.
He said he felt sleepy and tired.
So he went to bed.
Then after 2 hours, suddenly I heard a noise from our bedroom's bathroom , so I rushed to our bedroom to see what happened.
It reminded me of when he got stomach flu a few years ago.
The symptoms looked like nausea and pain around abdomen.
He said it's getting extremely pain, and can not handle it ,
so he needs to call to 911 !!!
OMG, OMG, !!!
I got really panic !
Because we have never called 911 in the past and even hospital.
Last time I went to a hospital was about 10 years ago when I got chicken pox .
So we called 911 and within 30 minutes an ambulance came over here
and Ray was carried by the ambulance early in the morning, about 4 am.
I got panic at that time so I forgot to ask them which hospital he will be taken to.
So I checked the closest hospital near our place in internet.
and found there is a hospital which takes only 10 minutes drive from here, so I rushed to the hospital.
When I arrived at the hospital, it was about 5:30 am ,
and Ray was standing with very painful look in the lobby, waiting for them preparing the room and the check-up for him.
The waiting time we felt was long , so I asked them how long will it take?
and they answered it will take about a couple of minutes.
After around 20 minutes past, finally we could get to a room.
and waited there a long time until Ray could finally get the pain killer shot after he got another check -up.
He also had IV.
Ray could not even lay down on a bed because of the pain !!!
Finally, a doctor came up and told us it's kidney stone.
OMG..... it's Kidney Stone !!!
Really !
We both were surprised to hear about that.
The doctor didn't explained much and after told us what it was , he had gone.
They gave us an instruction paper after that , and finally the pain killer started working and his pain had gone.
and he felt much better after he came back from the bathroom,
so he was discharged from the hospital.
Side effects
On the way home from the hospital, we went to a Pharmacy to get prescription medicine which was instructed by the hospital.
The pain killer he was put on in the hospital worked until that night.
and Ray was sleeping well until evening.
In that night he got another pain again, so he took the prescription medicine, one is an alpha-blocker used for treating enlarged prostate, and another is a mild pain killer, and another for severe pain.
However the mild pain killer didn't work, so he only took strong pain killer every 4 hours , twice, however the strong one also worked only first 15 minutes and soon he got bad pain again.
He followed the instruction so he only took one pill every 4 hours.
But it also worked very short time, so I started checking some home remedy in internet.
and I found mixture of lemon juice plus olive oil plus apple cider vinegar and mineral water are good for kidney stone.
So I went to an organic super market and got all the ingredients and made it and gave it him.
Within 30 minutes, Ray said maybe it’s working, and his pain had gone.
and he started sleeping well until around midnight on Monday.
However, after that he got a bad pain again.
They instructed him to drink a lot of water so that the stone may pass.
So I was giving a lot of water but he could not drink much.
He said his urine has not been out since he got back from hospital.
so we thought it's something wrong with it.
So we went to the emergency hospital again.
Ray said he was checked many things.
and the doctor told him his kidneys is not working !!!!
In the beginning, the doctor said only his right kidney is not working, and left kidney is fine.
But even after two IV, he was not able to pass urine.
So they said they need to check more so told him to stay in the hospital overnight.
So he stayed in the hospital and didn't come home.
It was our first time, we separately spent night since our 13 years marriage life.
I was really worried about him and missed him so much.
also realized how much he is meaning to me in my life.
Next morning, when I went to the hospital, there was another doctor in Ray's room and told me that both of Ray's kidneys had shut off and have not been working.
and the doctor said he doesn’t think its’ only the kidney stone ‘s problem , he said it’s very dangerous, so they need to surgery to find out the problem and fix it some time in that day.
That doctor is a specialist for kidney and seems to have wide scale of knowledge.
Ray's condition looked still in bad pain so he also wanted to take the surgery to fix it as soon as possible.
They were not sure when Ray's surgery will be started at that time , so I cheered him up and told him, I will be back to the hospital around 3 pm.
When I came back to the hospital around 3pm, Ray was not in the room.
Looked like he was already in the surgery.
So I waited for him back.
While I was waiting for him, I did the method of Pierre Franckh's successful wishing.
I wrote the words that he is already fine now.
and pictured he is already fine and is smiling with relaxed comfortable face.
At 4 pm, I went to a nurse station and asked them when his surgery started.
and a nurse told me his surgery started around noon and the surgery went great. He will be back to his room soon.
It made me feel much better!
Then I saw he was on a bed moved by a nurse to his room on the hallway.
So I went to him.
He was already conscious and his face looked better.
I asked him how is he feeling.
He said he feels much better.
His face skin looked better color as well.
I was a little surprised that he really looked good just after the surgery.
Because when I had a surgery in the past, I had terrible sore throat when my conscious came back from the anesthesia and was not so fine condition for a while.
But I was so happy to see him feel much better, and his kidneys are working !
He was told that his kidneys had shut down probably from a combination the kidney stone, the prescription medicine and side effects of of one of the scanners which was used when he first time visited the hospital by emergency, to check what was wrong with his body.
They said they use the CT scanner because it is the most clear to see the problem in the body.
The doctor told him that he may have had a reaction to the dye that's used for the scanner, and this was causing to make his kidney problem worse.
We were shocked to hear about that.
That doctor was honest, so he told us about it.
We very appreciate the doctor and all the people who attended his surgery and all the nurses who took care of Ray in the hospital.
But these hospital machines and medicines can potentially be very dangerous.
We haven't been taking prescription medicine for a long time, more than 10 years because we know in general it's not good for our body.
But it was new for us to hear about the CT scan's possible side effect.
Ray went to the hospital by emergency to get better but it got even more dangerous situation after that.
They said Ray's kidney stone was small, so if he didn't get the side effect from the other medicines and scanner, the stone might have pass it naturally by drinking a lot of water or lemon & apple cider vinegar juice, he might not have to have the surgery.
I wonder why it happened ?
I've read about that Health problem is a warning sign of something is not balanced in our bodies.
Ray's food life is different from me even we live together.
He didn't drink water much in his daily life.
Also he doesn't do enough exercise and doesn't walk much.
He loves tomato sauce for pasta, drinks a lot of coffee, puts a lot of salt in meals, loves sweets, and bubble soda drinks.
Anyway, balance is the most important. and I suppose this experience was warning sign to Ray to fix his food and exercise life.
After that , Ray was discharged on June 4th, so he was staying in the hospital for 4 days.
Now his condition is getting better and better , day by day.
For a while he can only eat foods which has less potassium for his kidney.
No tomato & tomato sauce & ketchup, no fries, no coffee, and for awhile, no milk & ice cream, no cheese, no chocolate.
Later, will try decaf coffee.
Now he drinks natural squeeze lemon water, natural mineral water, organic pure blueberry juice.
And eat apples, peach, strawberry, blueberries, red grapes for breakfast, also foods which are turkey, chicken breast, fishes, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, onions, green onions, green beans, asparagus, lettuce, french bread, pasta, rice, olive oil.
He may be able to go to work from next week.
His symptom of the kidney stone made me scared so I will also careful for our daily foods even more than ever.
No one in my family and relative got kidney stone so it was new to me.
But I learned many things through this experience.
When all the storm had gone, I finally fell asleep deeply.
I realized that when I got mentally stress from fear, I could not eat much, could not sleep much.
It's so wonderful and I'm grateful that I can eat and sleep well now when my husband's health is getting better and better.