Heaven and Hell got together on Tuesday

Tuesday - Insane Day for Morrison Family
Heaven/Hell'ometer rating scale
0 - Hell......10 - Heaven

6:30 a.m. Day starts - too early but OK. Score 5
8:00 a.m. Drop off Blake at Gran's. Blake is very happy to be starting his day there. Score 8
8:05 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. Kelly and Joanie drive to Bedford for Joanie's follow up mammogram because there were suspicious places on 1st mammogram - A.M. driving in Mid-Cities. Score 4, Stress over mammogram problems. Score 2
9:00 a.m. Joanie goes to back room to wait for mammogram. Score 4
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Joanie decides to break the waiting room silence and attempts comic relief while room full of stressed-out women sit in their mammogram capes waiting to be called back. Score 6
9:30 a.m. 2nd mammogram done. And I thought the regular one was painful! Score .5 but a short-lived .5.
9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Waiting Room - continued comic relief with new group of women - can run old jokes around a 2nd time. Score 6
10:20 a.m. Talk to radiologist who gives a pretty good report - not a perfect report - but a pretty good one. Score 8
10:30 - 11:00 Drive back to Fort Worth in good spirits. Score 8
11:00 a.m. Go to Harris Hospital downtown to visit young girl from Christian Homes who is giving her baby up for adoption - but is in Fort Worth due to pregnancy complications. First part of visit is good. Score 8 Nurse comes in during our visit to tell her that she will not be delivering on Friday as they had thought due to immaturity of baby. Pregnant girl falls apart. Score 4. Continue visit for a few more minutes feeling helpless as to what to say to young lady. Score 4.
11:30 a.m. Leave girl's room and talk to nurse in hall. I fall apart in tears when I find that I'm the only person she has seen visiting the girl for the last 3 weeks she has been in the hospital. I cry like a baby to the nurse - feel so sad for young girl. Score 2
11:45 a.m. Head for church. Regaining composure. Getting perspective. Score 5
12:10 p.m. Stopped by motorcycle cop on McCart/Walton. Score 1.5
12:15 p.m. Talk myself OUT OF A TICKET (he had already told me he was going to write one) by dropping a few officer names and mentioning that I had actually done a ride-along with the traffic LT (thanks, Lt. Burgess) once and he'd let a guy off for doing 80 mph in a 60 mph zone. The ticket would have been for an expired inspection sticker. I promised to go and get it done right up the street. Can't believe I got out of a ticket! Score 9.5
12:20 - 12:50 Get inspection done and return to find same officer giving ticket. Wait until he's done and then point to my new sticker to prove I did what I said I was going to do. Score 8
1:00 p.m. Go up to church and meet up with Mom and Blake. Score 8
1:00 - 3:30 Shop at Kohl's with all the senior citizens (an extra 15% off for seniors) and buy rest of needed Christmas gifts for Kansas family Christmas this weekend. Score 8
3:45 p.m. Home for quick recovery. Tired. Score 6
5:30 p.m. Meet Crowells, Williams, and Gillilands at Rosa's for dinner. Kids' having fun but lots of screaming and running into each other. Tears here and there. Crazy! Begin to feel discomfort in stomach around 6:00 p.m. - don't think a lot about it. Score 7
6:15 p.m. Crazy dinner with lots of kids wraps up when one child has minor throwing up incident. Score 6 Pain in my abdomen seems to be increasing a bit - glad we are going home. Score 5
6:30 p.m. Return home. Discomfort increases exponentially. Score 4
6:35 p.m. Concern increases - Joanie asks Kelly to look online and see where the appendix and gall bladder are. Score 3
6:37 p.m. Decision is made to take Blake to Gran's house. Score 2
6:40 p.m. Kelly returns home and gets me into car. Pain in right side is approaching unbearable. Feeling like I'm going to be sick. Writhing begins. Score 1
6:43 p.m. Kelly breaks the land speed record going from our house to Harris Southwest...running lights and blowing by stop signs. Whimpering now accompanies writhing. Score 0
6:48 p.m. Arrive at Harris Southwest. Hell would be a welcomed event at this point. Joanie freaks out waiting room people and other people waiting for service as she slumps in wheelchair writhing and moaning. Score -1
6:49 p.m. Other patients are pushed aside and Joanie moves to the front row of pitiful people for service. Score -2
6:51 p.m. Joanie pukes. Score -3
6:53 p.m. Joanie into ER room and lab in to draw blood and start IV. Score -3
6:55 p.m. Doc in. Suggest kidney stones. Score -2 (relief that I didn't come all the way to the hospital for a tummy virus - and glad no cutting will be involved)
7:03 p.m. IV finally started and druigs administered. Score 3 and looking up
7:08 p.m. Drugs begin to take effect. Score 4+
7:30 p.m. CAT Scan. Score 5
8:00 p.m. Joanie falls alseep Score 8
9:00 p.m. Doc diagnoses bb-sized kidney stone Score 8
9:15 p.m. Dismissed from hospital Score 9
9:30 p.m. Home Score 9


So there you have it. It was a roller coaster that I couldn't seem to get off of! As of Friday afternoon, my friend Stoney is still with me. Drink more water....drink more water....

I don't ever wish a kidney stone on anyone....it was really unbelievable!