The past six weeks.

Wow! I can't believe we are now more than half way done with this term.
The last six weeks have been absolutely crazy and unfortunately I am behind in my schoolwork because of all the things that have been going on.
First my 14 yr old daughter had surgery a week before christmas, nothing too major, a tonsillectomy but surgery none the less. Because we are on medicaid I couldn't find a local dr and had to travel 45 minutes one way for her initial visit, pre-op testing, surgery and follow up. She did fine after the surgery but being a typical 14 yr old she was demanding a lot of attention. Then Christmas and New Years rolled around. My sister, who I have not seen in 10 yrs, came down from Indiana and my sister in law came down from NJ. It was nice to see them but hectic at the same time.
Then, first week in January I wound up being admitted to the hospital due to my left kidney being obstructed by a kidney stone. I am no stranger to kidney stones as I have a genetic condition which causes me to form them. I was in the hospital for 4 days and had a procedure done to remove the blocking stones then have stents put in my ureters to keep them from becoming obstructed. I went for my follow up visist with my urologist this past Friday only to find out that my condition is more serious than originally thought. I have massive amounts of stones still sitting in both kidneys. So now I have to have even more procedures done to rectify this problem. This Thursday (Jan. 21) I will be admitted back into the hospital for another cystoscopy, stent removal, stone manipulation, lithotripsy and stent re-insertion on my right kidney. Then in 2 weeks I will be admitted again to have the same thing done on my left kidney. And finally 2 weeks after that once again be admitted to have the stent taken out. This does not even include all the follow up visits to my urologist and nephrologist.
I wish I could say that after all these procedures are done that that is the end of the kidney problems but no such luck. Since my condition is genetic I have already been informed that I will have to take serious medications to prevent stones from forming again which is going to be difficult since my kidneys aren't formed correctly. I am going to have to have routine 24 hr urine collections and bloodwork done. This puts a serious dent into things for me.
As a result of my recent hospitalization I am now behind in my schoolwork. With more procedures and doctor visits looming there's a tremendous possibility that I will fall behind again. One of my professors (Professor Pal), has been absolutely fantastic and is working with me in regards to my schoolwork. My other professor, not so much. She is rushing me to complete late assignments and seems to get annoyed when I email her to let her know I am still working on something. You know it is not easy to do everyday "normal" things (cook, clean, take kids to school, etc) and do schoolwork when you are in quite a bit of pain because you have tubes in your ureters and feel as if you have to use the restroom every 2 seconds.
Some people have no compassion.