Friendship, the ER, and Kidneys
If I have learned anything recently, I have learned what love looks like through the actions of my friends. If I could sum up the past two weeks in a word...well I probably shouldn't use that specific word... let's go with a more family friendly option: bonkers. I got back to college after Thanksgiving feeling bad. I had been having back pain for a few weeks and it hadn't gone away. At first I thought it was muscle pain, but for the amount of time it lasted and the amount of pain and how deep it felt, I thought it might be something more. I went to the Wellness Center the morning I got back and they thought it might be a UTI. A few days later, the pain got really bad. It was excruciating. Something else was going on. In the past week I have been to the ER twice. They're thinking kidney stones. Last Thursday morning I woke up and couldn't move. Between gasps of pain and tears I texted a close friend to come help. We went to the ER where two other fri