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Are you going to follow in Capt Kirk's footsteps?
USATODAY.com - William Shatner sells kidney stone
Glad to hear you're rid of that little gem.
Selling it? No way! It's a keeper.
Well, if I can get just 1/10 of what Capt. Kirk got, I might be persuaded. Any less, I'd rather keep it for framing. Two weeks of suffering, plus the anguish of fear of chronic prostatitis or perhaps some kind of cancer, as the pain this time was so different than earlier when the stones were stuck in the ureters.
I have had kidney stones on and off all my life. It usually happened when I forgot to drink a lot of water daily. Never had any treatments, other than the advice to drink a lot of water and tough it out. No pain killer needed either!
This is only the 2nd time I catch the stones. I happened to catch this stone using a strainer that I still kept from 15 years ago. The earlier stone was much smaller but had sharp edges that sliced the ureter (between the kidney and bladder) on its way down, bad enough to cause a trip to the ER, followed by visits to a urologist. When caught for analysis 2 weeks later (it's calcium oxalate), it was flatish and looked like a small corn flake.
The stone this time got stuck around the prostate. The onset was sudden, causing me to think I got a case of acute prostatitis. It then subsided. My primary care doctor suspected a kidney stone, but still recommended a visit to a urologist to be sure. Before I could do that, I felt the stone moving a couple of days later and was able to use the saved strainer to catch it, after drinking lemonade as a diuretic to flush it out.
I was shocked to see how big it was. Thought about posting a picture of it, but did not want to gross anyone out. Amazingly, it caused less pain than the other smaller stone that I caught 15 years ago.
This post is no good without a picture (of the kidney stone!)
I may take a picture and post it for "bragging rights".