I will tell you what that is … that, my good people, is a kidney stone!
Honestly, I was quite surprised when it came out. All this talk about it being the size of a “grain of sand”. Grain of Sand my ass. 7mm is not the size of a grain of sand. Yeah, I know, it is not as wide as it is long … well let me tell you, 4mm is not the size of a grain of sand either.
Trust me, I laid on the beach for a week, in pain, waiting for this thing to pass, and never once did I see a grain of sand that was even remotely close to being this size. Maybe the shell of that hermit crab that kept walking by, mocking me, but no grain of sand.
The thing was so large that the prominent ‘clink’ it made while hitting the porcelain as it came out actually woke up the neighbors.
The up-side, it is gone. The down-side, it was so large it blocked much of what was passing through my right kidney … for the better part of a week … from coming out, and now that my bladder has been flooded with septic juice from my swollen kidney … I have an infection. No small infection either, this infection is so bad that beer does not even taste good and the only way I can tolerate rum is straight up.
Yeah, I guess it all could be worse…
HOLY F’n SHIT …
You have no idea….
He showed it to me and I said, “That’s a gallstone, not a kidney stone!”
I’ve never seen one that size pass on its own.
We got him some Flomax (Tamulosin) by Wednesday prescribed by the only Ross faculty, a psychiatrist, with a Bahamian medical license–they never offered it in the hospital! (And the hospital experience is another story in itself–I’ll just say that when Eaon decided to check out “against medical advice” I was behind him 100%!). Anyway, I’d buy stock in that drug, because it obviously is miraculous.
Wow.
Just … wow.
Where do I send the flowers? Does Hallmark even make “Congrats on passing your Kidney Stone!” cards?
nice job, nice job
way to push hard and go far!
we were eating at el pastor tonight and out of the blue japhy says
i miss eaon-