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<< <i>Full Strike and no one has bid on it? >>
That thing would be worth a fortune if it only had that "First Strike" printed on the label.
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<< <i>Full Strike and no one has bid on it? >>
This is just to funny, I agree fully struck blob flattened out.
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<< <i>Looks more like a kidney stone. >>
I not sure they are that smooth.
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<< <i>Looks more like a kidney stone. >>
I not sure they are that smooth. >>
I've passed many, many of them - they are far from smooth. Had lipthrotripsy a few times to break up the big ones in my kidney. They failed to mention the purpose was to make hundreds of smaller ones that you eventually "pass." The word "pass" is far from accurate.
"Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey
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<< <i>Looks more like a kidney stone. >>
I not sure they are that smooth. >>
I've passed many, many of them - they are far from smooth. Had lipthrotripsy a few times to break up the big ones in my kidney. They failed to mention the purpose was to make hundreds of smaller ones that you eventually "pass." The word "pass" is far from accurate. >>
Believe me, I know kidney stones, and I wish to yell I didn't. I've never had the operation, but one I passed was 8mm x 14mm and ALL the doctors and urologists told me it was unlikely to pass, and the way they stated "unlikely", the tone of their voice implied "never."
I've passed around 5 or 6 of them about 4-6mm x 4-6mm, plus many much smaller ones, since that one from around three years ago. Lots of fun if ya enjoy excruciating pain. LOL
I was up and somewhat mobile.
I guess that was a mistake for the emergency room at one hospital.
maybe 5 hours in the waiting room alone, much less at home for day before, and a Dr. just peered out and noticed me and made a "eh. can't do much about it" face and left.
A few hours later I left in pain and it later passed.
about a year and a half ago, I go to the ER again at a new hospital for the same pain. Aparently, I had residual pain and passed it at home before leaving, but I was still in pain at the hospital and THAT one didn't see me for like an hour and a half. I had to roll around on the floor screaming before someone finally figured out when I ranked my pain as a 10 on 1-10, that I really meant it. Unfortunately, the cat scan didn't find it, but did show 1 in each chamber ready to go. My labs showed elevated levels of stuff related to a kidney stone passing. Those 2 went in the past several months with a lot less pain.
I refused to pay the other hospital for not treating me (I walked out)... the ER intake nurse charge was $49 for taking my temp, BP and asking me where it hurts. I told them to stick it! (But eventually had to pay when I went to refi in this mortgage market. I held out for years, and feel justified. Why not pay? $49/(1/12 hour) = over $500/hour to do almost nothing. price gouging! I told them to call me when they pay the nurse $250/hr.)
If anyone every feels so much pain it feels like their abdomen has been shot.... that could be a kidney stone. Intense long lasting pain compared to child birth.
I wish that thing was a kidney stone, seems smaller than the ones imaged in me. plus I think my previous scar tissue in the ureters would mash it into a long thin wire.
<< <i>I didn't know what the pain was.
I was up and somewhat mobile.
I guess that was a mistake for the emergency room at one hospital.
maybe 5 hours in the waiting room alone, much less at home for day before, and a Dr. just peered out and noticed me and made a "eh. can't do much about it" face and left.
A few hours later I left in pain and it later passed.
about a year and a half ago, I go to the ER again at a new hospital for the same pain. Aparently, I had residual pain and passed it at home before leaving, but I was still in pain at the hospital and THAT one didn't see me for like an hour and a half. I had to roll around on the floor screaming before someone finally figured out when I ranked my pain as a 10 on 1-10, that I really meant it. Unfortunately, the cat scan didn't find it, but did show 1 in each chamber ready to go. My labs showed elevated levels of stuff related to a kidney stone passing. Those 2 went in the past several months with a lot less pain.
I refused to pay the other hospital for not treating me (I walked out)... the ER intake nurse charge was $49 for taking my temp, BP and asking me where it hurts. I told them to stick it! (But eventually had to pay when I went to refi in this mortgage market. I held out for years, and feel justified. Why not pay? $49/(1/12 hour) = over $500/hour to do almost nothing. price gouging! I told them to call me when they pay the nurse $250/hr.)
If anyone every feels so much pain it feels like their abdomen has been shot.... that could be a kidney stone. Intense long lasting pain compared to child birth.
I wish that thing was a kidney stone, seems smaller than the ones imaged in me. plus I think my previous scar tissue in the ureters would mash it into a long thin wire. >>
When I had the first one I truly believed I had a stomach ulcer...and when I went to the doctor I told him that...the nurse practitioner did a great job diagnosing it as a kidney stone, and I got a cat scan as well. I am proud to say I went through the whole thing, took around 3 months to pass, completely drug free because I really detest drugs. But to be honest a few times I came within minutes of popping a vicodin which the doctor prescribed and I bought a bottle of it just in case.
There is so much disinformation out there about kidney stones that it's not even funny. However there is wonderful helpful information available as well especially on the web, and without going into a dissertation, without that key information from the web which frankly took me a few months to find, I don't believe I would have been able to pass it, and I believe I probably would have eventually gotten to the point whereby the pain would have been unbearable without drugs, and perhaps even with drugs, and I would have needed a surgical procedure.
It would be too long of a post to tell the whole story...but check this out and take my word for that this is truly a miracle "cure" for 90%+ kidney stones...take around 3 ounces of first cold pressed virgin olive oil and mix it with an equal amount of fresh squeezed lemons. My large stone was basically stuck for over 2 1/2 months and not going anywhere...Then for 4 days, twice a day, preferably on an empty stomach, I drank this formula, and around the fourth day, i already mentioned the size of the stone, it finally passed out of the ureter, it did get "caught" in my penis, and took a few more days more to pop out, but that pain was much less, and it felt great knowing it was out of the ureter. One very interesting facet about the formula, that I didn't know then but I read an article about it a few months ago, is that olive oil acts as an anti-inflammatory agent in the body, and after the first glass I drank, I was amazed how much the pain was reduced. I mentioned the other later stones, which were brutal in themselves, and as soon as I feel it in there, I keep fresh lemons and the olive oil always in my house, and I mix it and drink it immediately, and within minutes the pain goes away, and it takes about 12 to 20 hours for the things to pass out of the ureter - they still get stuck in my penis for a few days, A doctor told me and I've read where something such as 'something' "flow", I can't think of the name of it off the cuff here, can help move the stone from the bladder out of the penis, but I haven't tried that yet, like I said that pain is bearable so i don't worry about it. In fact, that pain when it's in the penis is actually much worse than when the stone is in the ureter after drinking the olive oil.
I'll end the post here - I could probably write a short book about the overall experience. LOL
"The word "pass" is far from accurate."
More like Pass Out!
Being an x-ray Tech, I've seen more than my share of the "unfortunatly blessed with kindey stones" folks. Though I've never had one, I've come to my own conclusion that trying to pass one is like trying to pass a spiked bowling ball through a coffee straw.
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