I had kidney stones

kidney stones I've had kidney stones before but this last one I had to have a

stint put in so if you're unfamiliar with the system, with the expulsion system. I can't tell

you where they put the stint then. But what happened was after a certain amount of time I had a doctor's

appointment in his office, not in the hospital, to have the stint removed. And I found out,

after talking to the doctor for a second that it wasn't they were going to

pit me under no pain medication and he's going to do it manually.

So I wish I had more time to prepare emotionally, psychologically,

self-medicate with like a fifth of Jack Daniels or something. Like in the, you know, in the Civil War when they're going to cut their leg off,

at least they gave him alcohol to get drunk. And a stick, if I had a stick to bite down. But it was, he told me, so his words were right before the procedure, which is basically a yank, said,

just try to relax. I didn't even know where to start. By the time I was going to try to relax, it was a

just like, relaxing is pretty easy for me. It's like my second nature.

In fact, the problem that I have is finding things to do.

So I'm usually just relaxing.

But when they say try to relax, that doesn't comfort you at all. It's not a

comforting statement. So it took me three days and two hours of therapy in a month of night terrors.

You get over the trauma, but it was over quick, but the

scar was there.

So it was like, that made me wonder, it was like, why is bedside manner such a thing with doctors?

It's like if a doctor you just want somebody to be really good to telling you you're

going to die or that there's just unpleasant situation. That just means they've done it a lot.

That just means they're really familiar with that. It doesn't mean it's

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