Update

I'm home. The kidney stone came out on it's own sometime within 12 hours before the surgery. We didn't figure that out though until the dr started the procedure. He didn't find it where the x-ray showed it, so he checked all the way up into the kidney. Because the stone came out on it's own, he didn't put a stent in. The whole thing took 17 minutes.

My procedure was scheduled for 1:15pm. We dropped the kids off at 11am and were at the hospital by noon. They took us back to my room shortly after and I was ready to go in by 12:30pm. The nurse finished checking everything and told us that the dr might be running a little bit behind, but to check with the nurses if he hadn't come to get me by 1:45pm. He hadn't shown up by then, but we figured he must have gotten tied up in another surgery or something, so we didn't bother complaining about it. At about 2:30pm a nurse came in and put in my IV. The dr finally came in to talk to us about an hour later, over two hours after I was scheduled for. They took me back and I woke up in recovery about an hour and a half later in pretty much the worse pain I've ever been in. The nurse gave me morphine through the IV and I couldn't even tell when it hit. All I wanted at that point was to go home. By then it was after 5pm (we had expected to be home around 4pm). There was no point in complaining though, so I just asked what I needed to be able to do to go home. The nurse in the recovery room, who was amazing by the way, told me that she had already called for the other nurse to pick me up and take me back to my room so I could get ready to leave. 45 minutes later the other nurse still hadn't shown up. The recovery nurse brought me some crackers, juice and a vicodin as she didn't want me to have to wait any longer for the other nurse to show up. 30 minutes later the other nurse was still MIA, so the recovery nurse said "if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, we'll take the mountain to Mohammed" and took me back to my room on her own. She then stuck around and took out my IV so I could leave. At that point, the other nurse decided to show up. She told me I could have another pain pill, which I obviously really needed, but she said I'd have to wait another 30 mins if I took it. I opted to leave instead. We finally left the hospital at about 6:15pm - over 6 hours after we got there, for a 17 minute procedure. I was not impressed - except for the recovery nurse, who was wonderful :)

I texted Betsy telling her we were finally on our way home and apologizing for taking so long. She replied not to worry, that she had fed the kids and that Eva was doing amazingly well and that everything was fine. I texted Jo-Jo as she was bringing dinner over and was already waiting at our house. She asked what she could do to help and if the kids needed to be picked up and if it would help if she drove down to get us. I had been crying when we got in the car - both from the pain and from frustration about things taking so long and feeling like I was inconveniencing so many people. Rob's concert was that night too and at this point it looked like he was going to miss it completely. I felt so badly about that, but he really didn't care if he needed to miss it to take care of me. I felt like I walked out of the hospital about as low as I could get, but between Rob, Jo-Jo and Betsy, everything was taken care of and no one was upset. They were absolutely perfect and made my afternoon/evening so much better!

We got home and Jo-Jo sent Rob off to his concert (which he got to only 10 mins late), then ran over and picked up the kids. She had dinner all ready, pasta and chicken with alfredo sauce, salad, homemade rolls and homemade cinnamon rolls for dessert. The kids came home happy and fed and well taken care of. Jo-Jo took care of everyone, then spent the next hour talking to me (and the kids). Allison showed up at that point and stayed until Rob got home just before midnight. The kids got ready for bed and then I let them make beds on the living room floor and watch a movie. Jack and Beth fell asleep watching the movie and Eva fell asleep on my lap. Allison and I talked. Between talking to Allison and Jo-Jo, getting wonderful texts from Betsy about how much fun they had with the kids, and seeing Ashley's facebook updates about playing with Eva, and Rob taking such good care of me, my day did a complete 180 from the time I had left the hospital. I seriously don't know what I would do without you guys! You made my day/night so much easier and I will love you forever! :)

I'm still in some serious pain. I'm on two vicodin every 4 hours and 800mg of IBUProfen every 6 hours and it still feels like the worst cramps I've ever had. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow. Or soon. I am so incredibly blessed though to have friends that help me through things like this!