The Morning Adventure
December 14, 2005
So, I wake up this morning, have to pee but can’t…get big pains on the left side of my abdomen…and think to myself, “Huh. This is weird.”
So I go to the doctor, see a few folks, and then I am asked to do a urine sample. So I do that. And……..”plop” - out plops a little something that I don’t normally see.
I show it to the doctor and he says, “OH! Well, hey - now THAT was easy. Good job.”
Now, how is THAT for a morning adventure. I mean, really. Who doesn’t like passing kidney stones…?
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
December 14th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
Wow…that’s crazy!
December 14th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Good job! Your morning sure beats my morning of shopping for a Youth group Christmas party and paying bills via phone tree hell.
December 14th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
No pictures of the kidney stone?
December 14th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
You are blessed my friend. Mine have required surgery. Ouch. What’s worse… I have a couple still there.
December 14th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
i admire your willingness to share with us hehe.
and yes you are lucky - i had a friend with those and they can get pretty ugly… i’ve heard its the male equivalent of giving birth
December 14th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Ho ho ho…Merry Christmas.
I am really looking forward to reading your blog in another fifty years so we can hear all about your colostomy bag.
December 14th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
that would explain the lack of WiFi in TH222!
That is my main fear (minus spiders). Glad it was painless…er…relatively painless.
December 14th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Will, I wish I had this when I got my colonoscopy back in January of 2003. It would have been fun to give you photos and updates on that ;)
Jose, yes…thank you. Although mine was very, very small - I’ve been hearing HORROR stories about these, and the doctor even told me that it’s definitely the male equivalent to giving birth (and hurts maybe more).
That’s just a fact. I spoke with a woman today (who has given birth multiple times) and she told me too that she knows they’re just as bad as that.
It’s funny though, me and a buddy were trying to tell a few girls that at lunch today - and they would NOT buy it. But…sorry ladies, it’s true. Especially when women who actually HAVE given birth agree with us, well…
December 14th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
just think “a watermelon through a straw” is what i heard it was like…
now doesn’t that sound lovely when it comes to know just what the straw represents
December 14th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
How ’bout those Colts?
December 14th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
Adam,
You should be on your knees, hands lifted high in praise to your Maker for the agony that was spared you… or for being blessed with a exceptionlly large urethra - either way, you should be one grateful young man.
12 years ago at the tender age of 28, I was taken out by a kidney stone and let me tell you, the level of pain and discomfort was as such that I would have willingly surrendered government secrets, expatriated myself, ratted my friends out as commies, disowned my family and renounced my faith for a little bit of relief. But thankfully a little country hospital in rural Illinois saved me from al that with more than a few cc’s of MORPHINE.
December 14th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
must be something about seminary… I passed one while a student.
Glad it was so easy
December 14th, 2005 at 11:30 pm
well, i guess that explains why you weren’t in class today! how did you like that message from kenda? i’m glad we were praying for you (even if it was for a different reason…)
December 15th, 2005 at 12:46 am
Is passing a kidney stone at your age normal?
December 15th, 2005 at 12:53 am
Yah Don, 20’s is when a lot of people start getting them.
December 15th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Good thing I drink a lot of water… I’ve got enough pains in my ass to worry about pain in my… well, you know.