Kidney Stones
It was in the year 1985, when I had the first attack of ureter stone medical problem. I was totally unaware of such a medical problem till then. When I was in a cinema hall, enjoying a picture, I suddenly felt the throbbing pain, in the right side lower back. With each advancing minute, the pain increased tremendously and I could not bear it. I did not know what it was and thought it was a problem of Gastritis. I drank a bottle of aerated water and hopefully expected the pain to stop. But it did not. Not knowing what to do, I took a taxi and went to the Government General Hospital. It was almost 2330 in the night, and the casualty ward was deserted with no doctors around. I could only see a compounder and explained to him my medical problem. He went inside, and after a lapse of 10 minutes, the night duty doctor came out, like a man in sleep-walk. After a reluctant hearing to my recital, he asked the compounder to get a vial of ‘ Baralgon’ injection, which was administered. Within a few minutes, I was completely alright and I admired the doctors professional approach in medicine, even when he was half asleep!
I returned happily to my house. Exactly after two hours, the pain started again, and this time it was so unbearable, and I was feeling so uncomfortable in any position. I went into the toilet room and squatted on the toilet seat clutching my abdomen, praying for a relief from the throbbing pain. Nothing happened. Now, without any alternate, I had to wake up my neighbour, who was my colleague and requested him to take me to a good doctor. Within the next half an hour I was in the private nursing home of a leading medical practitioner, who was a qualified MD. He checked me up briefly and asked questions, whether the pain was radiating or a persistent pain. I was not in a position to answer any of his questions. But I had replied that the pain, in fact, was on the right side of my lower back and radiating pain. The doctor was not satisfied with my reply. He went ahead with other routine examinations and commented to my friend, ” this patient cannot express himself properly”, and he had his doubts whether it was kidney stone or appendicitis. I was so angry and wanted to tell him that he was one of those doctors who could not understand the problem properly. At last, the doctor phoned up to the reception and instructed to admit me in the special ward. I was kept on drips with a liberal dose of ‘lacix’ and was given pain killer. The nurse was advised to collect my urine and filter to find out whether the stone had passed out through the ureter and out of bladder through urethra. Nothing of that sort happened.
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