Midnight trip to emergency room. CT scan, home by 4 am. I have always heard Kidney stones are bad JuJu, now I know. Supposed to be small enough to pass, but DAAAMMN!! Getting old not for sissies.

Sorry to see this Ellis. Prayers for a quick turn-around.

"All things will pass. They may pass like a kidney stone, but they WILL pass." Don't know who said it, but now you have first hand experience in what it means. Sorry to hear of your kidney stone, may it pass quickly. They say a kidney stone is as close as a man can get to experiencing birth pains, but never having gone through either I can't vouch for that.

since I was a kid. Slacked way off on the sodas and that slowed them down quite a bit.

Dilaudid is good stuff for the pain, but if you ask for it in the ER they think you are a druggie.

they wound give you a funnel thingy to urinate in with a screen in the bottom so you could catch the stone so they could analyze it.

I passed one in 1984 and it was the size of a #5 shot with little stickers all over it. Took about 4 hours of excruciating pain to pass into the bladder. The next day out it came. Passing it out from the bladder to the filter thingy was the easy part.

they gave it to me without a second thought.

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Esse sine metu in facie inimici tui. Sit fortis et rectus quod Deus ut amo te. Veritatem dico semper etiam si eam ducit ad mortem tuam. Tuendam inops et facere no mali.

I remember a warm calming feeling coming over my whole body. Doesn't make sense but I could still feel the pain from the kidney stone, but it didn't bother me.

….which was a surprise, but worked very effectively. A friend drove me into the emergency room, and he said as soon as the nurse gave me the injection my eyes rolled up so far only the white was showing! That must have been momentary, as all I recall was an immediate sense of relief.

The odd thing was that we were in an ER that was divided by curtains, and mere minutes after the injection I heard the voice of a woman from our church. She had a truly distinctive voice, so I called out to her. My friend thought I was hallucinating, so when she replied (yes, it was her) he nearly fell out of his chair, lol!

Otony