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Last night I was having one of those "I might have a UTI" moments, with frequent but paltry peeing and a little bit of stinging when I pee. This morning, my body woke me up at 7 am in raging, left-side, kidney-area pain, which numbed to a dull roar then cycled back into massive ow in which I almost vomited. It tamed itself down shortly after 8 at which point I dozed off a while, then was up again around 9 for another round of massive pain, at which time I did vomit clear stuff. It reminded me too damn much of my kidney stone in 1997, so I called the doc.

Pee was clear, but the doc handed me a seive to piss through and a scrip for hydrocodone in the event that more pain cycles rev up. I also have a Wed. appointment for a CT-IVP to see if there is indeed a stone in there.

The weird part is that once I left the house things settled out into just minor pain. It hasn't cycled back up again yet. Part of me is wondering if I had one damn convincing psychosoma going on, thanks to the Leo stuff. But I have a lingering soreness around the area of my left kidney to remind me that the feelings are real enough regardless of the cause.

Leo's home. In the midst of my craptastic morning, I made the phone call to ARDDA to check in and make an exit appointment. 3:40, which would have been all well and good if I could drive today, but with the potential for more cycles of curl-up-in-a-corner-and-scream and a bottle of loopy pills should said cycles occur I did not want to be responsible for automobile operation. Thankfully mechanchaos's team lead suggested taking a personal day. I don't know how we would have gotten Leo home otherwise.

For now, Leo has antibiotics, just-in-case muscle relaxants, and prescription food. Dr. Kutrybala agrees that this time we should keep Leo on the special food for good. That way we can "stack the decks in our favor" as much as possible. He wouldn't suggest surgery unless Leo had a few more incidents of this yearly or bi-yearly. That makes me feel happy in that I don't want to be invasive unnecessarily, but leary that we may still encounter the same problem a few times in the future. Though, he's still generally a healthy kitty.

Yay for having the kitty home! Boo for being in limbo about my own health.