f’er #1 was born this morning around 9:45am, with a length and width of around 3mm. Father and stone are doing well. Expecting f’er #2 will arrive shortly.

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I got a call from the doctor on Friday about the x-ray results. Remember the mention of other kidney stones waiting in the wings? Yeah, well apparently the left side is not pushing just one kidney stone, but TWO kidney stones at the same time. On one level, it did feel like there were two [...]

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Thursday had an unexpected surprise around 4:30am; one of the stones that was lodged in the left kidney decided to leap for freedom, and start its journey. Being that I have experience with this now (after all, it’s only been roughly two weeks since the other kidney stone started it’s descent on the right side), [...]

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I’ve noticed the more that I give out my information to various places that I shop (willingly, mind you) that more of these clubs distribute things like coupons and such in physical form. I’m curious why they feel the need to either print out these coupons, or why they require me to print them out. [...]

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Thursday was the day that I had scheduled for getting the kidney stone removed, and when the alarm went off that morning I was ready in almost record time. I didn’t want to be late for the party to finally get rid of the stone. After arriving and taking care of a few bits of [...]

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Thank you, sweetheart for seven wonderful years together. Here’s to many, many more!

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So, roughly 10 years ago (OK, more like nine) I had a kidney stone, which certainly made my new year all that more special when it happened (2001, the year I get laid off, the year I have a kidney stone, and the year we made contact) At the time the previous stone magically extracted [...]

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