Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Stones

I have a kidney stone. No sympathy required though. I don't feel it. No pain. My doctor found it on an x-ray. This is my third stone. I had one in 1985 and 1999. The 1985 one we watched for two years before they decided to remove it. This was before blasting technology, so it was major surgery. I missed many weeks of school which was pretty cool at that age. The 1999 one was found accidentally on a back x-ray. We did the blast thing on it. Only two days missed of work. What a difference in 14 years. Both stones have been fairly large, not in the capable of being passed size at all. This one I think is smaller but still no worry about passing it. I am supposed to have another x-ray in 3 months to see if there has been any change.

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