Had my ass kicked by such a tiny little fucker

[Simon]

Hello again world

It's been awhile since I've been here. Nothing to do with business at all, just had a few days of horrible abdominal pains that I thought were a combination of food poisoning and constipation. Turned out it was a damn kidney stone. I learned that one of those tiny little fuckers can really cause some serious pain.

Wound up having a neighbor take me to the local hospital emergency room one night when the pain got to be too much to handle. After some tests, scans and x-rays, they sent me all the way up to the mainland via ambulance. Spent a few days up there in a beautiful new hospital while they confirmed there was nothing they were going to do except discharge me 100+ miles from home and let me go back home with some meds and their best wishes on the passing of the stone.

Seems that below a certain size they don't do any of the 3 or 4 potential procedures to remove the stone since it's possible to let it pass on its own. So after too many days in windowless rooms with no clocks, I wound up at home taking antibiotics, a flow enhancer, and some pills for when the pains got too bad. The pain pills caused the constipation that I thought I had in the beginning of this adventure, and when that passed the other two meds caused diarrhea, so the past week has been an absolute laugh riot around here.

Anyway, haven't felt much like eating, sleeping or working until today, but I thought I'd take a minute to post something now that I'm feeling a little better. I don't know if I've passed the damn stone yet but this is Day 2 without pain so we'll see how it goes.

I'm going to go read the board for awhile and see what I've missed while I've been away. Thanks again to those who contacted me via icq, email and phone to ask why I hadn't been around. As always, it feels good to be part of the community around here.

[cd34]

Good to see you back again.....

[JackDaniel's]

Hope you'll feel better soon !

[Cleo]

Glad to hear that you are feeling better.

[Torn Rose]

Pics?



(Good to see you are still around)

[JustRobert]

Welcome back Simon, good to hear you are feeling better.

[Ramster]

Well that just sucks.

[strickie]

Ouch!! My designer had one a couple months ago....I've never seen someone in so much pain.

[ArtWilliams]

I was thinking of you the other day. Welcome back!

[Greenguy]

Try peeing into a metal pan so you can hear the PA-TING when it passes.

[ArtWilliams]

My friend was told to pee through a sieve!

Originally Posted by Greenie

Try peeing into a metal pan so you can hear the PA-TING when it passes.

[LeRoy]

Ouch that's gotta hurt.

Glad you're back Simon

[plateman]

hope you get those passed and over with, good luck

[SheepGuy]

Damn, that does not sound like fun.
Hope you're over it buddy

[ponygirl]

that sucks but I'm glad to hear you're ok

[Simon]

Thanks for the good wishes.

Still a pain-free day, second one in a row. So I'm hopeful but not certain since I had almost 2 days with no pain over last weekend, and then the pain came back.

Originally Posted by Greenie

Try peeing into a metal pan so you can hear the PA-TING when it passes.

Originally Posted by artwilliams

My friend was told to pee through a sieve!

Yeah, I used a special urine strainer in the hospital but didn't take one with me and the local drug stores don't have one. The kitchen strainers aren't a fine enough sieve and adding a paper coffee filter makes it just fill up. So I may have to try the PA-TING method.

[Torn Rose]

Originally Posted by Simon

So I may have to try the PA-TING method.

Vid?

[stuveltje]

Ay! i am glad you are without pain for some days already Simon, i know some who dealed with kidney stones ...what i heard from them too, is that the pain is huge!, So i hope you get rid of the little fucker soon

[bluebrit]

Good to hear you're feeling better Simon and welcome back

[RedCherry]

Glad to hear you are back, and doing better. Both my dad and sister have gone through that, and both have said it was horrible. Hopefully, it has passed.

I was told about a year ago by a tech during an ultrasound for something else, that 100% of the people he ultrasounded in our town, that drank the tap water more than a few years, had kidney stones because of all the calcium in the water. Needless to say, I drink bottled...I don't want them. If you are not drinking bottled water, might want to look into that if its a problem in your area. Even filtered water doesn't help, as most filters don't remove the calcium.

[Licker4U]

I know you want to hear the PA-TING but hopefully it's already passed. Good you're feeling better!

[sue-fl]

Glad your feeling better Simon!

I know the pain of kidney stones and how painful it is sorry your going thew that

[pc]

Hi Simon
It's good to hear you feel no more pain.
WB

[NY Jester]

My mom just went through 2 big bouts of stones..I had one a few years back..yeah that wasnt happy times at all. Glad to see you're back up and around.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

If you are not drinking bottled water, might want to look into that if its a problem in your area. Even filtered water doesn't help, as most filters don't remove the calcium.

Thanks, I'm definitely going to look into the calcium level in our water supply. I've used a Brita filter attached to the tap for the last 12 years, but I'll check on how that kind of filter handles calcium too.

All this time I thought calcium was a good thing, and particularly good as your bones get older, but I guess the truth is that everything that makes you stronger also kills you eventually too. Or at least that's how it looks when I consider all the crap we've been told was good and then bad for us over the years.

Thanks again to everyone for the good wishes.



Photo of three common kidney stone shapes