Lithotripsy

You guys are makin me cringe. I had a stone around 95--98 or so. I woke up around 1AM, thought it was bad chicken (left overs for supper,) then appendix, called the 911 girls who I kinda knew as I'd been doing some work over there, and said, "if you don't hear back in 1/2 hour send the truck," then finally managed to drive to the hospital, only about 2 miles away.

The pain came and went. I got into the back room, they ended up shooting me up with morphine. **** things were GREAT.

Anyway, "it went away" and they scheduled me for "up the tube" surgery, and removed it. By the way I HAVE FOUR KIDNEYS!!

Heard horror stories about friends who can't pass them, etc.