[tharbert]

Glad everything came out Ok!

Had one a few years ago: simple calcium. I had intense pain that came in waves. Thought I was dying of...something. Once they figured out what it was, they dosed me with some superweight pain meds awaiting the arrival of the urologist. I went in for surgery but no scalpels were used. He went in the out door with a basket and grabbed it. I'm so very glad I was out cold. He then installed a stent in the ureter that ended in the badder. I felt that stent poking me in the bladder for a week. Unfortunately, I wasn't out cold for the stent removal. It wasn't painful but extremely uncomfortable.

Still, as painful as it was, I've felt worse in the dentist chair when I received a Novocain shot into an abscessed tooth. Now, that was simply Medieval torture.