My name is BFSkinner (Ok, ok, maybe not but it fits better than saying my handle is BFSkinner) and I am a kidney stone sufferer.
I have had 38 stones… and no, they are not fun, not fun at all.
I’ve had every procedure but one to get rid of the darn things… the one I will be getting tomorrow for which I have to be at the hospital at 6:30 AM.
They are going into the actual kidneys to break all of them I have stored there (Many) to get rid of them before they fall down and go ouchie boom. If interested in ureteroscopy here is a good site.
It is, thankfully, an outpatient procedure, but I am worried as I go under General Anesthesia...and the last two times this happened I ended up in ICU.
No fun, no fun at all.
Its all the fault of my Crohn’s disease that makes me get more stones than usual...another bit of no fun….especially since my Crohn’s is active as we speak.
So for all of my fellow Kossacks who have had stones we should have a DK support group. :)