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(12,017 posts)preface the story with the fact that i am a pretty fat guy...
i am prone to kidney stones... they run in my family somehow. i awoke one sunday morning with a twinge of pain in my lower abdomen... not the place where my previous stones had caused pain. after a couple of hours it had become unbearable and i was not sure what it was so i (stupidly) drove myself to a hospital... normally would have gone to a doc-in-a-box but we don't have any 24hr ones around here.
so... into the emergency room lumbers this big overweight guy doubled over in pain and all red from the last couple of hours of being in pain. the triage nurse, seeing me come in this way, assumed i was having a heart attack and immediately calls for a gurney and something else that i missed and the whole place went into a whirlwind.
when i was finally able to talk (yes, it hurt that much) i was able to briefly describe the pain and at that they called off the dogs!
looking back now... pretty funny. at the time, i just wanted something to cut the pain.
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