Tag: kidney stones
Passing a camel through the eye of a needle is child’s play.
by schwim on Jul.25, 2008, under Miscellaneous, Projects
I passed my first kidney stone about seven years ago. I did it at a hospital with the assistance of a lot of pain medications. Normally the hospitals provide these medicines to help alleviate some of the pain you’re going through. In my case, they prescribed them because my screaming was scaring the other patients… two floors up in the maternity ward. I didn’t care why they were giving them to me. The only important thing was that I was getting something to dull the pain.
One small problem. The medicine prescribed didn’t address the pain. To be frank, it didn’t even shake hands with it. It just walked on by the pain without even a sideways glance.
To make a long and painful story short, they finally gave me something that just completely obliterated my coherence and within four hours of the initial pain, I had passed the stone.
You may wonder why I’m bothering to write about this at five AM in the morning. On my blackberry. In my bathroom.
