Had a stone lasered yesterday and hopefully its now dust which I have to piss out. Huge relief as I was terrified it would move when I'm out in the boat or hunting alone.

Only time Ive seen my brother vomit from pain was when he passed one. Not a pleasant experience from all accounts.

I had a troop get one that moved from his kidney to his bladder. He ended up in hospital on morphine!

Hope it's the last one you ever have. Dreadful things.
I've had several and expect there will be more in due course. I carry a suppository painkiller around for when I feel one coming on, which is always out of the blue and bloody quick. It's the only thing that seems to work for me. One time I had one so severe I was taken to hospital by ambulance. The orderly gave me about five morphine shots in the bum that were completely ineffective.
Usually I just live in misery for a couple to several days until I piss it out. Hard to believe something as small as a pinhead can cause such unbelievable pain and discomfort.

Been there, done that! They suck! I have never tried this but a friend says this works for him. When he feels one coming through he fills the bathtub with the hottest water he can sit in. The hot water helps with the pain. Starts drinking on a 6 pack of beer, just pee in the water it will come out! Says he has not been to the hospital after starting this routine.

I’ve passed two, first one wasn’t fun

I had a huge one lasered because it lodged in the opening of the tube from the kidney.

You know that when your doctor asks you to rate your pain from 1 to 10?

That became my reference 10.

I had one earlier this year. Not fun.

I have to have more removed next year .

Passing a stone is likened to mini giving birth!

I think you all need to be called Mommy now!

Just imagine being introduced as “this is mommy Larry! And this is Mommy Tony!”

Had an Austrian from, who used to run the Dubai Zoo, who had them on a regular basis!

Never found out why!

They used to close the zoo on Wednesday.

And we used to go in and shoot rats at sundown with air rifles!”

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Just imagine being introduced as “this is mommy Larry! And this is Mommy Tony!”

Had an Austrian from, who used to run the Dubai Zoo, who had them on a regular basis!

Never found out why!

They used to close the zoo on Wednesday.

And we used to go in and shoot rats at sundown with air rifles!”

I told Penny I was going to put it in a locket for her

We had fun in that zoo.

That is where I learned to reload.

Horst and his wife were the curate of the zoo.

They were from Austria.

They had a friend who was pilot, also from Austria.

One day he decided to teach me to cast bullets and reload.

First thing he did was pour molten lead on his toes!

Then he was using a Lyman lead bullet lubricating press.

He broke the handle!

Next he tried decapping military 223 brass with crimped in primers.

Broke the decapping pin!

Anna Marrie, Horst wife, banned us from doing anything more reloading lessons and got us lunch!

You might remember some of our earlier safaris in Zimbabwe.

All these three came along to hunt with us.

Good lesson was that.

Made me think of being careful while reloading.

They had two very large male lions.

And on Wednesday when the zoo is closed they would let them out.

Only way to get them back in the cage was by using two tiny dogs they had.

The dogs would bark and herd the lions into the cage.

They also had a lioness that had one baby.

It didn’t want it.

So Anna Marie had to bring it up.

She call her Mona.

The zoo was about a kilometer from our house, so I went there almost every day to play with Mona!

She had very sharp teeth, like needles.

She loved to suck my thumb, but never bit me.

This went on for quite a while.

Left Dubai to go to school in England and came back about a year later.

Mona was too big to keep at their house, so they put her in her own room in the zoo.

Only persons allowed in were Horst and his wife.

When I asked if I could go see her, their answer was “up to you”

It was in the evening as I was having dinner with them.

I stood outside the door and called her name.

Then opened the door, went in and closed it.

Mona was looking at me, crawled backwards until she hit the wall.

Then took a leap at me.

She was quite big by then.

When she stood on her hind legs her face was right at my face standing!

She got her paws on my shoulders, and started licking my face!!

She never forgot me!!

Bloody hell!

I can, with all honesty and a straight face, say I stood a lioness charge without a flinch!

Even after she touched me with her claws and mouth!

Tony you can tell your what a brave friend you have now!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I can, with all honesty and a straight face, say I stood a lioness charge without a flinch!

Even after she touched me with her claws and mouth!

Tony you can tell your what a brave friend you have now!

And a few lion charges as well mate

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Originally posted by Bakes:

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I can, with all honesty and a straight face, say I stood a lioness charge without a flinch!

Even after she touched me with her claws and mouth!

Tony you can tell your what a brave friend you have now!

And a few lion charges as well mate

Don’t tell them THAT!

Their reaction might be “what a bloody idiot! Doesn’t learn any lessons from one charge? He does it again??”

Getting back to kidney stones, the famous diarist Samuel Pepys was 'cut for the stone' and miraculously survived because the surgeon's tools hadn't yet gone septic.

Thereafter, Pepys used to hold an annual dinner to commemorate his survival. Some think a fault in the operation had something to do with his subsequent lechery.

I've had two friends who had to pass them in their urine. Both of them were in terrible pain and bleeding.

One of them unfortunately is no more. He was virtually an alcoholic and the beer flushed it out ultimately.

The second friend was suffering when I visited him for his birthday. He normally does not drink but joined me for a couple of beers. Sure enough the stores were flushed out next day.