Big Scrub TX

Flash Gordon
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Fletch

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I have a walrus pecker on the shelf in my living room, much to my wife's dismay...

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There's a nutria penis at the world penis museum in Iceland. I know because I know the guy who sent it to them from down the bayou. :lol:

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Mid 50's couple leaving from the baton rouge area. Drive, fly doesn't matter. 4 days, 5k<.

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Thousand Islands/Montreal

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How do you baws pass a kidney stone?? Looking for some help here from you seasoned kidney stone passers to get this thing out!

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It's interesting to me how unclear this thread is on the topic.

"Flank pains" - it sounds like this is what sent you to the ER. The stone descending from the kidneys to the bladder via the ureter is almost always the terrible part. The part that made your WWII vet Paw Paw say things like "I was at D-Day and took shrapnel, but the only time I ever cried like a baby was when I had a kidney stone". Thankfully, once this part is over, it's over.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, the peeing out of the stone (that is, the stone moving from the bladder, down the urethra, and out the pee hole) is rather anti-climactic and more of a pain in the arse, than an actual pain.

For me, I've passed about 5 now over the years. I (extremely luckily) only felt flank pains in 2 of them. The others somehow got to the bladder unannounced. For me, they seem to linger in the bladder for up to 3 weeks. My most recent one - last summer - was a 7mm ball of joy that lingered in the bladder for 15 days.

When the stone is in the bladder, you will likely feel "referred pain/sensations" whenever it flirts with the urethral opening. For me, this is very mild pain, registered at the glans (tip) or a vibrating/buzzing (almost like the phantom cell phone effect in your pocket), mostly at the glans, but sometimes on the shaft. Again, very little real pain associated with this.

When the stone gets in the urethra and starts moving down, that's when you can start actively managing things, although this can take days too. What you want to be looking for is when the stone obviously gets into the tip and is very close to coming out. At that point, you should be able to lightly squeeze and detect exactly where it is. (I said LIGHTLY.)

It's at this point that I usually attempt the "break the dam" strategy. As you go to bed, drink a huge thing of decaf with a shot of bourbon it. The goal is to sleep and let the dam (pee) build up. When you wake up having to go really bad, DON'T GO! Instead, pound a beer or two.

Wait a couple of hours, and then go. Get the sieve, put it in the toilet, and pee the sucker out. You will likely be shocked at how much of a non-event this is. Relieving the pee will be a much bigger effect than the actual stone moving through.

Good luck!

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Poullard

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French for Politard?

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Bitcoin would be down 50% if that article held any weight of actually revealing satoshi.

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wut

The one trailer I saw seemed like it was going to go at least a little into how toxic Joe was.

My wife left me. She said she was annoyed in the extreme at my quirks - e.g. I insist on using the metric system and refuse to use the imperial system. This sucks man. Although, when you get down to it, it's really my fault. I should have seen this coming from a kilometer away. :banghead:

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That's just insane.

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Eh. The median renter also doesn't need/have a car. I wonder how much that lowers the overall cost.

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Progressives want to know the context.

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But WHY exactly did someone somewhere do something?