New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI

[LordWinslow]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

yeah they pretty much suck in a big way.. when I had one (looooong story... go here ) the Doc (a woman) "Congratualtions, you just came as close to child-birth as a man can ever get.."

supposedly, the pain is similar (she told me some story about how they've done brain scans on patients in different painful situations etc and men's and women's brains lit up almost identically during kidney stone passing/ labor.. I dunno, too much medical jargon thrown in at the time, but I did find it interesting at least)

Well at this rate I should of had 4 kids by now...and 6 more to go...

GW

[yellowmininy]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

yeah they pretty much suck in a big way.. when I had one (looooong story... go here ) the Doc (a woman) "Congratualtions, you just came as close to child-birth as a man can ever get.."

supposedly, the pain is similar (she told me some story about how they've done brain scans on patients in different painful situations etc and men's and women's brains lit up almost identically during kidney stone passing/ labor.. I dunno, too much medical jargon thrown in at the time, but I did find it interesting at least)

I think that's a pretty valid comparison from what I've heard (no kidney stones yet!), though from what it sounds like kidney stones might hurt more. Babies don't usually have sharp edges. Not that labor is for wimps, and I can't really recommend induced labor and no pain meds to anyone, but I thought it was worth it! (It's been 25 years and I still remember it really well!)

[MetalMiniMayhem]

Quote: Originally Posted by LordWinslow

Well at this rate I should of had 4 kids by now...and 6 more to go...

GW

Man, I feel for ya.. that su-uh-uhucksss....

[yellowmininy]

Hmm, maybe we need mobile MINI lithotripsy (ESWL)
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozItem.cfm?id=87

[bakerjc]

This was a little one.......

[yellowmininy]

Gee, I wonder if you can get the date engraved on a kidney stone like the penny has?

[GadgetGav]

If it has, the first three digits won't be 1-9-9 like the penny is... we'd be lucky if even the first two were the same..!

[LordWinslow]

Quote: Originally Posted by bakerjc

This was a little one.......

You kept yours, I gave mine (well the ones I could find) to the doctor after fishing them out of the bowl... I didn't want that little monster anymore after all the pain and suffering I endured for a week.

GW

[NoNo]

I'm sitting here, trying to eat my breakfast, but I'm surrounded by stories of severed limbs, bloody pee, and pictures of kidney stones. You're all disgusting. I can't believe I allow myself to be associated with such a group of misfits.

In more pleasant news I managed to both shatter my bowling ball AND break a lane last night. Yeah, I know I'm awesome.

[harveyjoseph]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo

I managed to both shatter my bowling ball AND break a lane last night. Yeah, I know I'm awesome.

Glad to see you had fun!!!!!

[snid]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo

In more pleasant news I managed to both shatter my bowling ball AND break a lane last night. Yeah, I know I'm awesome.

You suck at bowling, huh? [ducks]

I went pretty far in life before I broke any bones. But enough skiing and snowboarding will eventually catch up to you. I broke both arm bones down at the wrist end while snowboarding. Setting those bones in the hospital was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. They juiced me up with morphine, but it still hurt to an insane degree. If you've never seen someone set a broken arm bone, it's pretty low-tech. They have you hold your arm up, then stick some fingers in those "finger trap" tubes that tighten when you pull against them. Then, they make a loop out of sheet and put that around your upper arm. Then they ge ta big guy to stand on the other end of the sheet, pulling you elbow away from your fingers. Fun. I continued to snowboard (and teach snowboarding) with a cast on my arm - I had to find an extra-extra-large glove so that it would fit over the cast.

I also did lots of damage to my left thumb in two different skiing accidents about 6 weeks apart. Basically, as soon as I got the cast off from the first accident, I fell again and broke some other parts of my thumb. The first time was a ligament tear and a tiny fracture at the second joint - I didn't go to the hospital for four days becuase I screwed it up on Thursday, and had a ski trip on Friday-Monday. And the ski patrol I saw right after I fell said it probably wasn't anything. Over the weekend my hand turned purple from bruising and I couldn't pick up a beer glass. The second accident broke both bones at the first joint.

Then there's that minor avalanche I was in.

[bethandlouis]

I am a danger to myself as well.
I have sprained my ankles, once even managed to sprain both at the same time, no less than 4 times. I sprained my foot flying through the air to attack someone. Have been kicked in the mouth by a pair of Doc Martens in a Mosh pit. Gave myself a concussion getting into my vehicle. I walk off uneven surfaces all the time and have twisted my ankle maybe 30-40 times in my life. I have multiple scars from my days as a skateboard punk. I've shut my thumb in 2 car doors, at separate occasions. Had an ovarian cyst that everyone thought was appendicitis, apparently it was a fast grower and I just had to wait for it to pop. I have a repetitive stress injury that comes up all the time, dequervain's tenosynovitis, that I got presumbably from typing too much and operating a stapler too much. I have disclocated both of my pinkies.

I have not risen to the level of requiring stiches but came close and argued with the doctors, while working at a fast food joint, Taco Bell, I was opening a bag of meat, no scissors handy but found 1/2 a scissor. I jabbed it into the meat bag and my ring finger. Went to rinse it off in the sink and passed out. Apparently you are not supposed to run cold water on a huge gaping wound, who knew? Ended up with butterflys because I won.

[yellowmininy]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo

I'm sitting here, trying to eat my breakfast, but I'm surrounded by stories of severed limbs, bloody pee, and pictures of kidney stones. You're all disgusting. I can't believe I allow myself to be associated with such a group of misfits.

In more pleasant news I managed to both shatter my bowling ball AND break a lane last night. Yeah, I know I'm awesome.

Sounds like fun! I hope nobody got hurt! I'm known for my lack of prowess while bowling. My first bowling experience was in 4th grade on a team called the Gutterballs. The best one on the team was in first grade and pushed the ball with both hands down the alley.

Jason, one of the orthopedic surgeons I worked with said "to be an orthopedic surgeon you have to be as smart as a bull and twice as strong". No one else in the sports medicine class I was in got it, but I almost fell on the floor laughing. Also you have to love power tools.

[jcsinnh]

Finally...a focus shift. Keep it up, klutz krew.

[NoNo]

I managed to bowl about 140 all night, (after I hunted down an alley ball) but I mean to break a ball? That's nearly impossible! There were chunks of it falling off. And then the lane breaking was just icing on the cake. Behold my awesome power!