On a rant!

[El_Squid]

Just spent the weekend passing a kidney stone, so now I am in a mood for ranting! Life is great when you are finally pain free for a while! Bwa ha ha! :flames:

[TechZ]

An entire weekend for a kidney stone, wow. :p

[Guts3d]

421 kidney stones removed from 60-year-old! (http://www.rxpgnews.com/specialtopics/oddmedicalnews/article_3634.shtml) She got ya beat!

[Mayet]

I dunno and I may be wrong but i think it would be much more agonizing to pass it out the end of an "oldfella" than a female...

[Guts3d]

Prolly not a picnic for either sex, I would think, but you are undoubtedly correct!

[El_Squid]

An entire weekend for a kidney stone, wow. :p
Prolly would have gone faster if it hadn't got stuck somewhere on the way out. Spent most of Sunday waiting for it to tear it's way on out. :mad:

[slgrieb]

AARGH! Never had one myself but one of my employees has had five or six. Ugly business. He would occaisionally do things like pass out in the middle of work when he was badly blocked. He has had a couple of lithotripsies recently at V.A. expense, but they appear to only slightly less unpleasant.

[El_Squid]

It is the only pain I have ever had that actually makes me physically nauseous. Particularly when the stone starts to move and the pain migrates from your lower back to your testicles. :sad:

The great thing about it all is, when the pain goes away, you feel absolutely wonderful! :) ;)

[street1]

Yes Sir!El Squid the 2 times I took my father- in -law to the hospital to pass a
stone.....Several stops on the side of the road with the nausea.

May a superior being to your liking,have mercy on you and you never get another one.


I only have experience from watching a grown man who never complains about anything humbled down to a whimpering baby.


Best to you.

[Mags]

Gosh, so sorry for the awful pain .. in the ..er..nether regions.

Indeed, hope you never get that again.

[TechZ]

I dunno and I may be wrong but i think it would be much more agonizing to pass it out the end of an "oldfella" than a female...

I had no idea thats how kidney stones were passed :eek:

[ADS_Tech]

I had to have my right nut removed last year after an accident (I walked into a sharp edge on a supermarket checkout), so can symathize with the pain. Tackle related agony is no fun. :eek:

[street1]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

You folks did have the correct icon for the condition.

[ADS_Tech]

Thing was though, I had a stiffy like a steel rod for about 3 hours after the op despite the pain and all....... :rolleyes: The wife was not impressed, and I had to use a strategically placed magazine when the kids turned up to make fun of me. :D

[El_Squid]

Ye Gods, man! OUCH! :eek:

Do you have any phantom pains, or sensation, from your missing jewel? I have read case studies on amputations, where the brain rewires itself to "feel" the missing part through other nerve centers, i.e. a sensation of pain in an amputated leg caused by wind on the face, etc.

In any case, my deepest condolences.

[Guts3d]

If you put it in a jar of formaldehyde and leave it on the coffee table it would spark a few conversations...

[ADS_Tech]

Yeah, I get strange aches in the area. Exactly as you said, its while the brain rewires.
Despite the pain at the time, and the thought of such an op on that most delicate of areas, its not really been too much of an issue since. Everything works just fine!

[ADS_Tech]

If you put it in a jar of formaldehyde and leave it on the coffee table it would spark a few conversations...

After a few beers, someone would mistake it for a pickled onion....... :eek:

They wouldnt let me take it home from the hospital. Youngest sprog asked the doctor first, because he wanted to take it to school to show his mates!

[El_Squid]

After a few beers, someone would mistake it for a pickled onion....... :eek:

They wouldnt let me take it home from the hospital. Youngest sprog asked the doctor first, because he wanted to take it to school to show his mates!
I can hear it now, ADS has great parties but his hors d'eouvres are awful. ;)

Sheesh! After what you went through, it would have been a small concession to let you keep your buddy. :rolleyes:

Your son had a great idea, that would have been the greatest show-and-tell of all time. How could you top that? :p

[ADS_Tech]

:grin: :grin:

[slgrieb]

Well, ADS, if your kid really wants something to display, you could just give him an oyster in a jar of vodka. Heck, in a pinch, perhaps you could even substitute a raisin for the oyster. :)

[ADS_Tech]

A raisin... hmmm. Maybe a prune. They are dried plums after all :p

[ADS_Tech]

I dont know if plums is just slang here, so, perhaps Roger Mellie can help:-

http://www.viz.co.uk/?%2Fprofanisaurus%2Fprofan_index.php%3Ffb%3D1

Then look up the Profanisaurus

[slgrieb]

Great link ADS! Back in 1973 when I was about to be drafted into the U.S. Army (a whole story by itself) I reported for my pre-induction physical along with lots of old classmates, etc. So, here we are, a bunch of guys standing in a circle wearing only underwear and paper slippers while an Army doctor gives us the traditional two fingers up the inguinal canal turn your head and cough routine. When he got to the guy next to me, he did the usual and then a double-take.

"So," the doctor asked, "How long have you only had one testicle?" Even though this was a congenital defect, my friend looked down at the doctor's hand and yelled, "Holy Cow! It was there a minute ago! Give it back you son of a B***h!"

Anyway, I don't mean to make light of the pain you've suffered. Well, a bit perhaps. Still you should remember that Lance Armstrong is a cancer survivor (Including testicular cancer) who has won the Tour de France more than any other cyclist, and untill recently was sleeping with Sheryl Crow. So, what's one cojone more or less?

[ADS_Tech]

I had two young lads who thought it was "really cool" Dad was having a part removed. They had visions of hacksaws, electric drills, Van Der Graph generators and mad scientists. Embarrasment or feeling sorry for myself was impossible!
Do I get to sleep with Sheryl Crow now? :p

[bach8351]

I too, have had the misfortune of passing stones. I've had more than my share of injuries but passing a stone is the worst pain I have ever had. I talked to a nurse who had had four children and passed kidney stones. She said she would take childbirth over passing a stone anyday.
The first time I passed one, I had no idea what was going on and was living alone. At 4am the pain was so bad, I dragged myself to my van, drove 10 miles to the hospital. I fell out of the van in the parking lot and was crawling to the emergency room door when two nurses just getting off work walked right by me and didn't even stop to help.
I guess they were accustomed to seeing drunks and addicts doing the low crawl and thought that I was just another wino or something.
I've passed three since then.
el squid, I hope it is the last one you ever pass.

[slgrieb]

Well, ADS, I don't know about sleeping with Sheryl, but I'll be happy to ask her in the morning after she's had her coffee.

[El_Squid]

Just heard from my doctor's office, to inform me that the CT scan found two more "non-obstructing calcifications" in my left kidney. So, it's off to the Urologist next Monday. Whopee! I hope they give me some good drugs and take those puppies out, before they decide to come out on their own. ;)

[street1]

What a kick in the butt after what you went through.

Wish you the best. Those calcified B***urds!!!!!

Urinary catheters are not a Blessing.Hope they don't
take you down that route.

http://health.allrefer.com/health/urinary-catheters-info.html

[El_Squid]

I'll spare you the horror story of my last Urological surgery and the urinary catheter I drug around for a week. I'll just say, thank God for good drugs and the good doctors who prescribe them by the cart load. :p

[street1]

I'm real familiar with the weiner tube.My 23 year old son was in the middle of college, had bladder damage, when he had major crohns surgery ,and he drug that thing around three weeks.

Damn long sentence I typed there hope it's legal.

That makes the old"Majic Fairy make it touch the ground joke"have a whole new spin.

[El_Squid]

:grin: