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This was taken in a basement with natural light from one "daylight" window, so that I could get the dark background I wanted.
I had minor surgery Wednesday night and my wife got me this bunch of lillies. They are just beginning to open up and they're quite lovely.
'No, I don't really care that most people walk past me to the Bright Colors of other plants. I suppose I'm rather drab and uninteresting with my small, yellowish flowers and an abundance of green foliage. But there's something to be said for not being fawned over, and nobody stands in my Sunlight.
My official name is quite boring, too: Lithospermum, literally Stoneseed and also Gromwell. Now be honest: would you like to be called 'Gromwell'? People don't realise how pretty my little seeds are. Each of my flowers yields four amazingly white and very hard oval-shaped seeds. It's after those seeds that I'm sometimes called Pearl Plant or in Dutch even 'Glad Parelzaad' (Smooth Pearl Seed), and the French and Germans give me similar names.
Indeed, I have little practical use, I suppose much like decorative Sea Pearls. In the past I've been used by 'nature medicine' to drive out kidney and bladder stones but as far as I'm aware no longer. So that leaves one thing: my nectar is sought after by my pollinating friends, the Honeybees, Apis mellifera. Other creatures may pass me by without as much as a glance, Honeybee is Sweet Company.'
In 2021 I visited the ER 5 times -- an extraordinary number of times for me to be in the hospital!
I was really hoping 2022 was going to be a very different experience compared to last year. Saddly, it looks like that might not be the case. Here it is only 20 days into the year and I've already been to the Emergency Room. This time for a kidney stone.
Now, let me make it clear, I've never been shot in the abdomen with a bullet, but I'm pretty sure the pain that results from a kidney stone trying to pass through your ureter is very much like I imagine a gunshot wound must feel. Trying to pass a kidney stone is the most intense and sustained pain I've ever had the "pleasure" to experience so far in my life.
#52 in 2022
#Something that is Heart Shaped
Close up image from the tip of a sodium crystal belonging to a KIDNEY STONE.
Courtesy of my own kidney.
Courtesy of Dr. Maurício Paiva , INT - Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta SEM
Magnification: 2.000x
Horizontal Field Width: 146 μm
Vacuum: 120psi
Voltage: 20kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 7.6
Detector: Mix SE/BSE
Close up image from the tip of a sodium crystal belonging to a KIDNEY STONE.
Courtesy of my own kidney.
Courtesy of Dr. Maurício Paiva , INT - Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta SEM
Magnification: 4.000x
Horizontal Field Width: 74.6 μm
Vacuum: 120psi
Voltage: 20kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 7.6
Detector: Mix SE/BSE
I just got some flowers from work.
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Hope you are better soon! From your friends in the credit department.
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Thanks everyone! It's been a rough few weeks that's for sure. I'm beginning to feel better (thanks to the operation). I hope to be back on my feet very soon.
9553, the down Long Island steel train, rumbles over the Flinders St. viaduct behind BL34 and A77. Litte attention was given to this train by those making the most of their lunch breaks in the sun, appart from the lady sunbaking on the right of frame almost passing a kidneystone in fright when she heard the loud horn blast!
Sorry, but it was the best I could do after spending Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday getting a large kidney boulder laser-blasted into little pebbles, which prompted Lisa to ask if this now made me a 'rock star'...hahahahahahahah...love it...thanks, dear. I saw this old guy laying around and thought he'd be perfect.
For your listening pleasure, here's the Temptations, and Papa was a Rolling Stone.
I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend, my friends, and for those in the states, be safe on this holiday weekend.
Queen Margherita of Savoy is the ancestress.
She is sick. There is blood in her urine and she is getting antibiotics. She is better now.
Updated on March 10th 2008: she is getting better! Thank you all for the kind comments and support!
Updated on March 22 2008: she seems to be ok now. This disease (kidney stones) must be monitored and we are taking her to the vet next week. Thank you all!!!
Updated on March 15th 2008: she is much better. Her problem is kidney stone.
These latest dogs were made as a kidney stone asserted total dominance over my consciousness. I think it shows.
Margherita di Savoia, the grandmother, the ancestress!
She has been sick with kidney stones but now she seems better.
She eats a special diet food.
She needs sunbathing on her kidney.
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Update:
She crossed over the Rainbow Bridge on June 27th, 2014.
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Thank you so much for your kind words!
I'm out of the hospital and feeling good. For your intererest, this is what made my visit necessary. A kidney stone of approximately 9mm length. A size comparison with the tip of a ballpen (also seen upper right) can be seen in the comments.
I have no idea how others could look like, but this one definitely looks nicer than it behaves.
The above photos are taken with an Olympus XZ-1 compact camera with reversely mounted 50/1.4 and a tissue "beauty dish". The one in the comments in ordinary super-macro mode.
My Sunday ended on a nasty note. Sometime around 5pm I started getting this pain that was just like the kidney stones I had last year.
Sure enough. Within a few hours I was doubled over in pain. Took two pain killers and two extremely hot baths... as well as standing in the shower with the hot water running on my lower back.
The pain was so bad I called the Emergency Room. They had me come in to make sure. The nurse on the phone thought, from how I was describing it, that the problem might be abdominal rather than kidney... I didn't think so. But at least I could get a urine sample tested.
Yes, it was a stone. Some blood showed up in the sample... but the pain had subsided. The Emergency Room doctor(Dr.Miller, I believe) thought I had probably passed it... "That was fast"... this was the same doctor I had a few weeks ago when I ended up there for my neck... very handsome, slightly older doctor. He can nurse me back any day. ;-)
I'll go to my regular doctor this week for a follow-up and then probably to a urologist. Which I never followed through on last year... silly rabbit.
Kee.. The reason I am way behind on uploading my 365 and upon your streams is that I was in the ER last sundaynight and monday morning..I felt sick already the days before but I thought it was a nasty flu. But than I got so sick in the middle of the night and we went to the ER at 1 AM...after lots of waiting and examinations it turns out at 5 AM I have a kidney stone. so just this quick upload since the litle bastard is stil inside and colic attacks are up and down. But I have this awesome medication which make me sleepy and high as a kite. so funny I got the medication at the ER and it made me laugh at this stupid yellow drawing of a duck.. anyways see ya on the flipside and have to catch up when I pee the litlle bastard out.
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FAIR WARNING
This is a little weird so if you are squeamish stop reading.
This is a kidney stone, about .8cm in size and it took a long time to pass, as in months.
Much larger than the ureter it was trying to go through.
If you know someone who has kidney stones be kind.
Told you it was a weird post.
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So late in the night,right before i was putting up #66, my brother came upstairs
saying he was in extreme pain,and needed to go to the hospital.. I knew it was serious from his voice,so we tried to make a quick and unfortunately bumpy ride to the emergency room as
he was suffering and saying it felt like his intestines were going to burst out ...
after getting him in,hooked up and the ER people swarming over him,he got some drugs in him,and they found out it was Kidney stones. it seems like most of it passed as we were getting to the ER, and they said its about 2 mm in size, so not the big troublesome ones.
he is feeling much much better today,and i told him i wanted to try and recreate last night for my 365,and he just laughed and said he would love to.. but only acting.
What doesnt kill ya, makes you stranger.
The odd ball requests are always my favorite to do...........kidney with big painfull,pointy kidney stones. OK.. I can check organ off the list now..........wait a minute... I have done an organ before............the one the stone has to pass thru!!!LOL
i woke up this evening with an excruciating knife stabbing pain in my lower back, sweats, pale, and did i mention the pain was brutal?? freaking wished i was dead. i went to the emergency room at a local hospital where they told me i had kidney stones. its gonna take several says before it naturally passes (the horror, the horror...) damn this kills. catch y'all shortly.
Somehow, I've created at least seven kidney stones in about two years. The largest one decided it was time to leave last Sunday, but it's too large to pass.
I went in for lithotripsy today to bust up the stones on the right side so they can pass easier. The urologist also inserted a stent in my bladder to hold the canal open wider to allow the pieces of the stones to pass easier.
Went to my doctor today as a follow-up from Sunday's bout with the kidney stones. Since there is no sign of the stone(s) still in my system, I do not have to go to the urologist... they did do another urine test for signs of blood.
Rachel called about 5am, "Mother, I think I might have a kidney stone".
At the Emergency Room, about 5 hours later, this MONSTER pops out.
Made for my boss. Used this picture (http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/yoururinary/) as a general idea for the shape, made the bladder bigger to fit the word bladder, and inserted a stone! It's not to scale, more of a perception thing...it's how big it felt.