Grandmother just got her first Kidney Stone.

Well my wife's grandmother "Mimi" turned 80 this year and just her luck she grew a kidney stone.  So I spend the whole afternoon at the ER with her.  She had the same signs of having a kidney stone, side pain or as the Dr. kept saying today "Flank Pain" and vomiting.  She awoke this morning to a shooting pain in her left side and had to call a neighbor a few hours later to take her to the ER.  My wife and I were on vacation and of course our cell phones were dead because we were Roaming all weekend.  But as soon as we plugged them in and was able to turn them back on they started blowing up with messages.

We just got home and Mimi is doing fine, they gave here to much Liquid which made her lungs fill up with liquid so the had to admit her to the ICU.  Tomorrow morning they plan on Retrieving the Kidney Stone with the basket (I have not had this procedure done to date, but I'm sure I will one day).  I feel you all in tomorrow after the surgery.

Kidney Stone #23 - 2nd Post

Well it's been a few hours since the pain has started, now the pain has backed off a bit so I am able to write a little more about it. I still feel like this one is on it's way out already... but who really knows.



I just got off the phone with the "The King of Kidney Stones" (my dad). He told me that he just passed a stone this morning, but feels like he still may have a kidney stone inside his right kidney. He told me about a cocktail his coworker told him about. We are going to call it a Kidney Stone Cocktail. I went online a did a search and sure enough there are many people that believe in it. Dad drank it last night before bed and passed a Kidney Stone this morning. So I'll be stopping by the grocery on my way home tonight to pick up a the ingredients. I'll let you know what the out come is.

Kidney Stone Cocktail
1 ounce of freshly Squeezed Lime Juice (not in the bottle)
1 ounce of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
8 ounces of COLD Water

Day One of Kidney Stone #23

Today as I am working on passing Kidney Stone Number 23.

As I sit here at work with the wonderful pain of having a Kidney Stone I couldn't help but log onto my blog and tell you all about it. I am a lunch sitting in my cubicle wonder how much pain I can go though with out telling these people that I have a kidney stone. I have the pressure build up that I normally have when I am about to pass the stone, so I'm thinking that this one will not to long to pass. I am drinking my Green Tea and hoping not to experience too much pain.

I hope I do not jinx myself be writing about it. This is my first play-by-play battle with the blog. Hopefully I will be uploading a new photo of my new stone by the end of the day.

Strainer in hand as I slowly walk to the bathroom.

A Family that gets (kidney) stoned together...

A Family that gets (kidney) stoned together; stays together.

It's funny how every time I tell someone that I "produce" kidney stones they seems to curl up in a ball and say "I've never had one but I hear they hurt". The I tell them the number of kidney stones that I have had and the FREAK OUT! Everyone knows someone who has passed a kidney stone but only our friends know a family that passes so many.

I love my dad and cannot wait to share some of his stories with all of you! In a sick way we have a bond that no one else has. We call each other in pain everytime we have one, sometimes gasping for air because the pain is so intense. Always laughing and joking with each other to get one another through the pain.

Kidney Stones are our life!

Scott Kelsey

If you have any questions or comments about Kidney Stones please feel free to leave me a comment I will get back to you.

Kidney Stone Photo Gallery

Everyone has an uncle or a friends family member that had one and went to the ER to get morphine because of a kidney stone. Not many people know the knee buckling pain that will bring a grown man to tears. No one know the excitement and feeling of a kidney stone ripping the insides of your junk as it cuts its way out into the free world. We are a select few humans that needs to be rewarded by our pain and suffering. From here on out if you have a kidney stone please post a photo of it so we can compare and congratulate each other with our fine efforts. We will have Thompson Touch, LLC - a Fort Myers web design Company & Naples Web design Company design the site for us.

Scott Kelsey

If you have any questions or comments about Kidney Stones please feel free to leave me a comment I will get back to you.

Attention Doctors and Urologist

Every so often when I go pee I feel as if I pass a kidney stone that I didn't know I had. My dad says the same thing, so who really knows how many stones we pass in a year. We are what I like to call "kidney stone farmers" except no one wants to buy our final product. If there was ever a study or if there ever there is every a study in the works, I'm sure my father and I would get the job.


**Attention Doctors and Urologist around the world. If you want to have two case studies I know the two specimens for the job.

Scott Kelsey

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My first Trip to the Urologist - WOW!!!

My 1st trip to my Urologist wasn't really what I was expecting.

1st off my dad's Urologist was on vacation and he had a man hater, woman Urologist filling in for him. Well this really made me nervous, the tone of voice she used and the questions she was asking me really didn't make me feel like I had a kidney stone at all. She had me convinced that I had contracted an STD of some sort from some dirty hooker that I picked up along the way some where, I thought for sure that I must have slept walked down to the local hoe stroll and caught something. So instead of sending me to the X-ray room to take a shot of my kidneys she decided to run some STD test on me first. Oh what fun!!!

If you have ever had this mind numbing experience please bear with me if not hold on because here we go.

This devil of a Urologist thought it would be better for me if she laid me down on a cold ass doctor's table and run some "special" test on me and my junk. Now I have have no clue what is going on; she tells me to drop my pants, and she is checking everything out and then the unthinkable happens. She stuck a (what seemed to be) full size Q-tip up my pee hole... that is right straight up it no lube of any kind just dry cotton ripping through me. In my unprofessional opinion nothing I mean nothing should ever go up that hole... EVER!

Now picture a 18 year old male screaming like a 7 year old girl that just fell off her bike and cut her knee. You now have the visual of me laying on that table with tears in my eyes wonder how some evil Woman could do this such a thing to me and for no reason; no reason at all. Then she went on her marry little way all happy and in a good mood, not feeling like she just violated me or anything, just as happy as she could be.

She comes back into my room and tells me to got to the X-Ray room just in case there is a Kidney Stone... Low-and-behold; sure enough there is the first Kidney Stone of my collection.

Thanks for nothing Doc, that was the last time I have ever saw her but I will remember her name for the rest of my life.

Scott Kelsey

If you have any questions or comments about Kidney Stones please
feel free to leave me a comment I will get back to you.