38 Replies to “I Amuse Myself”

  1. I’m curious Kate.. Who was this “special” person who you tried this on, and is he still with us..lol?

  2. Bathtub filled with hot water. Climb in, lay down and contort your torso as needed. Remember this experience is character building and allows you a valid insight on how extreme life can be and give truer thanks for good health when it has passed.

  4. unlimited amounts of single malt scotch. when you sober up it has been pissed away.

  5. Well, I dunno. I wouldn’t be too hard on the guy. They are brutal
    When Death Is A Mercy
    Saturday, August 13, 2011
    Assisted suicide, euthanasia and other end-of-life strategies continue to dominate many present day discussions amongst ethicists, religious ideologues, spirtual folk, and media panels, and daily life is punctuated by sad news stories in which an end came to a life by way of a deep and truly caring friend, or other discrete event.
    Proponents point to the science and the advances in medicine as the sine qua non that predisposes the decision when life should end; that it should be at a pragmatic technical point. That it should end only when no other technical solution is now or likely to be available. Technological innovation has made almost indefinite support of the corpus possible, maybe even inevitable.
    Clearly, none of the proponents of technical immortality have ever passed a kidney stone.
    Those who have will tell you there is a pain so indescribable (no words can express), so all-consuming (no thought can escape), so soul-devouring (no penitence will relieve) that death would, truly, be a mercy against the tidal wave of agony that comes from a grain of sand. There is a place where a soul descends that is torment without end. Measured against a life of such torment, death is, indeed, a mercy.
    Now, this isn’t about euthanizing kidney stone sufferers (although there can be moments where the choice would be dead, easy). But there are afflictions, cancers especially, where there is little to no relief available from unceasing, unrelenting pain. Modern technology renders the corpus insensible, and in doing so renders the soul entombed. Kidney stone sufferers have had a taste of where that place is. No one should have to live in that place, most especially if their own expressed desire is to escape it. Few will chose to dwell there, and to provide a door through which to pass with dignity is a kinder mercy than than can be found in the nether world of insensibility.

  7. Indirectly, this reminds me of people who ask serious legal questions to friends & strangers on social media. I always wonder if they’re going to make important decisions based on the advice they receive?

  8. Well, I know who not to go to for medical advice. How are you on things marital, because I have a few questions…

  9. While the hot bath is good advice, what helped me the most was using the Lamaze breathing I learned in the childbirth class with my wife.

  10. Get a heating pad and put it under the back under the tender kidney. That extra heat will dilate the area giving some comfort. In addition take a combo of pain relievers. I’ve done 3 Advil and 3 Tylenol at the same time every six hours. To help pass the stone(s) you’ll have to drink like an elephant. Go for 2-1/2 to 3 litres per day and hold on for dear life. You’re gonna feel a lot of pressure but that’s needed to move the stones. Most important is to watch your temperature. A backed up kidney is very prone to infection. If you feel yourself getting chills with uncontrollable shakes it might be worth a trip to a hospital emergency. They’ll x-ray the kidney/urinary tract area and check your blood & urine for infection. Best of luck and God speed to a quick recovery.

  11. ” I always wonder if they’re going to make important decisions based on the advice they receive?”
    Indeed. Hence Rule # three. Some people with a nasty sense of humor post stuff and expect EVERYBODY to KNOW the advice was a JOKE and never meant to taken seriously or taken at all. And then ya see in the news that some foool has needed emergency surgery to remove a shattered chopstick from his bladder. The dude should consider himself lucky Katie didn’t suggest the better known solution for stones – a desperate to escape GERBIL from the other “side.” ;-))

  12. Hoping they will pulverize it soon if appropriate size with a laser. If drive to hospital sit on a pillow and pray for a non-bumpy road. Bring toiletries, etc.and insist on staying the night even if they want the bed rather than enduring that bumpy road again.

  14. My husband passed one while I was out so he really was lucky that it was only a few hours. I don’t know if wives who have gone through childbirth can ever truly sympathize with a husband at a time like that. Not even if he turned gray, chewed his knuckles, screamed, or passed out.

  15. Havent had this problem but I understand they are pointy like barbed wire and they have to travel almost 2 ft through the tubing one point at a time . I thought they were breaking them with ultrasound now?

  16. Prevention folks!
    Never mix your Alberta Springs Rye with anything else but rain water.

  17. I dissolved a kidney stone with three shots of Apple Cider Vinegar – one ounce of ACV in half a cup of water, taken half an hour apart.
    The doctor I was seeing was amazed at how quickly it went away – she had prescribed some pain killers that eased the pain, but did not stop it.

  18. I am assuming you hold it 30 degrees LOWER than horizontal. Higher would mean more stress on the biceps which would require abdominal assistance aggravating the condition. As my German friends would say ” not?”

  19. Who mixes their alcohol?!? Try 40 Creek: it’s real mellow and smooth. Yellow label not the orange.
    OT: Dallas PD HQ threatened tonite.

  20. I had an uncle who swore by apple cider vinegar. He was born in the 1910s. He lived a long and prosperous life.

  21. Finally – some advice that makes sense!
    I kinda’ agree with Sean about mixing, except my beverage of choice is Lagavulin 16 – neat ‘n’ sweet.

  22. I had one kidney stone back in 1998.
    A fantastic VA doctor told me she would prescribe potassium citrate for kidney stones.
    I took 500 mg tablets until the potassium citrate knocked off the sharp jagged edges of the kidney stone that sticks in your urinal tract, drink plenty of fluids, and I mean ‘plenty.’
    It pained me for a couple of days and then it passed.
    I still take potassium citrate for kidney stones and have never had one since.
    Good Luck and A Happy Piss..

  24. “Who mixes their alcohol?!? Try 40 Creek…”
    It’s okay, I wouldn’t pour it down the sink, but it’s not made from pure rye.
    True Rye Whisky(the 100% stuff like Alberta Springs) is like good Scotch or Irish Whisky…I toss a splash of water in it to wake it up.
    Another nice Canadian Whisky is Glen Breton. Sort of a Canadian Scotch…bit of a nice peppery taste. Ridiculously expensive though – about 80 bucks for a 26er. Needless to say, I’ve never bought a crock of it.
    But, to get back on track, and, to support my original contention: 40 Creek/Alberta Springs with or without water ….bet you’ve never had kidney stones, eh?

  25. Ahh, Lagavulin, love the peaty goodness. I was told this by an old Scot, “A wee dram, makes you feel like a new man, and that man needs a wee dram as well” I had my kidney stone surgically removed the hard way. a I will never forget that pain. Morphine did a little. very little.

  26. The 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys suffered from kidney and bladder stones much of his life, to the point that he finally had an operation, which at that time meant being strapped in a chair without anesthesia while the doctor made incisions to extract the stone. Pepys made it through, and celebrated his survival and the relief of his pain with a yearly dinner party after that.

  27. The pain from my first kidney stone attack required a trip to the hospital where they told me what was going on. I had no clue and assumed that I was dying. After what seemed a lifetime a shot of Demerol in the butt was finally administered. I woke up hours later completely pain free. What happened to the stone? Who knows. I can only assume that it moved on to more spacious surroundings where it couldn’t wreak havoc in the urinary tract.
    The second attack a few years later resulted in another trip to the hospital. This time I knew what the problem was. The doctor described the procedure that he was ready and willing to perform if things got worse. This procedure …. just imagine the shortest non-surgical route into the bladder with a special tool better suited for a torture chamber than a hospital. Needless to say, this method of extracting a troublesome chunk of calcium bordered on medieval and I was somewhat less than willing to participate. Thankfully the pain passed and I promptly discharged myself before the urologist had a chance to return with his toolbox.

  28. So , lemmi see you have all scared me shitless of kidney stones now so if I take , 3 Advil, 3 Tylenol, put a heat pad under my kidney , do lama a breathing, have a hot bath , drink apple cider vinegar, Alberta sprigs, lemon juice and olive oil , and take 500mgs of potassium citrate I should never have a kidney stone?
    The key here is prevention folks and from the postings I never EVER want a kidney stone. Ever!!
    My expierience is a guy I work with had one, he said it came from an improperly mixed crystal drink mix I think Gatorade powder ….anyway he was balling like a baby until he passed out from the pain ….woke up in the hospital to more pain …..and promptly scared the bejesus out of me about kidney stones.
    So yeah I will never have a powdered drink again ..no ice tea, no tang, no nothing .lol no I’m not kidding I am scared to bits about a kidney stone. Lol

  30. Paul in Calgary – prevention is the key. That means drinking at least 2.5 litres per day of at least 50% water, cutting way back on sodium intake, keeping a healthy weight/activity level,consuming less dark green leafy veggies/nuts/berries(for the most common stone: calcium oxalate), adding citrate like lemon juice and increasing dairy. If you can pull this off (like I’ve been trying to) there’s a good chance new stone formation can be avoided. Good luck!

  31. They have a crusher machine for those nasty things, it shatters them into tiny bits that can be passed. The advice then I suppose is drink lots of fluids and piss be with you!

  32. Interesting comments. Have never had one, but had a buddy who did. We were both military,and he broke down and cried like a little bitch. Asked me and some others to just shot him and end the misery> It did not get that far,but the shot he got from the medic seemed to work. From what I heard and read,I would not wish one of these stones on my worst enemy!

  33. 2 coments
    Be kind to the wall board and install a grab bar on the wall behind the toilet OR
    A bit drastic but will work
    Put a tournaque around your neck for 15 min and all your pain will slide away

  35. I had 4 Uncles, 3 tea totalers and one who liked to drink. The three tea totalers all got kidney stones. Two of the tea totalers started to have one drink a night and they never had another kidney stone. The fourth tea totaler had at least 3 separate kidney stone attacks. I am trying to chase the odds by making sure I consume my share of preventive medicine.

  36. I passed one a few years ago. The pain was brutal, and it came out with a rush of blood. I grabbed it out of the toilet to have a closer look. It was a jagged little thing, which explains the blood, and thankfully it wasn’t that hard, so I think I got off lucky. Haven’t had one since, because I looked up how to prevent them…
    http://kidneystonewebsite.com/NEW-Pages/NEW-KidneyStone_13.shtml
    Hope it keeps working for me, and best of luck to all of you on not having any or any more.

  37. I enjoy all these medical reviews.
    One other note:
    My doctor also told me that if I didn’t have a kidney stone before I became 50 years of age,
    I probably would never have one.
    Piss poor luck, I had one at 50 years of age..

  38. And the one I had was well past 50. Even 60… Really important to stay hydrated… and in hot weather lay off the diuretic type drinks…

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