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I was in Iraq installing Satcom systems when I got tagged for an operator backfill position for two months. I had been there two weeks and felt like crap and had a low grade fever. I had just taken a shower and I felt the urgent need to take a piss. I felt like I had a baseball with imbedded razor blades passing through my junk. The pain was so bad I passed out. I had passed a 4mm kidney stone and there was blood everywhere. The doctors upped my Hydrochlorothiazide dosage and told me to drink the juice from a lemon every day while I was in country. The high mineral content bottled water was the culprit and ultrasound showed no other stones. They gave me a "light duty" pass for work which didn't mean anything as a Satcom operator works about an hour in a 12 hour shift if everything is dialed in and the rest of the time we played video games. The kidney stone was my scariest moment in Iraq. The second scariest is when I got hit in the leg with a 7.62x39 round that had lost almost all of its energy. It was like a hard paintball strike as it left a nasty bruise. I have that bullet in my OIF shadow box. Afghanistan was a different story.
ReplyDeleteyup. they made me wish I was dead. and it takes a lot of drugs to dull that pain too.
ReplyDeleteeven after you pissed, you hurt for quite a while. thank god I had a great ER doc and nurse.
he told me I should be sleeping with what he gave me and if I wasn't, he needed to up my dose
you will follow the notes they give you to keep them a bay. diet and water amounts, all of it.
Roger that, was down in Florida between periods of college, used to run on the beach or at the school's track every day. One day, early in morning, felt like someone had inserted a Fairbairn-Sykes WWII British commando knife into right kideny from behind. Went to the ER, barferd, and passed out waiting to see a doc. Turned out the pain was from the stone in the kidney in regards to specific location where it was. Sent home with pain meds and told to drink (just water, damn!) like crazy. Did the IVP imaging w/contrast and saw the damn thing still there, so they elected to insert stent, they can steer that thing and had it go basically all the way up to the kidney. Every time I took a leak it was rather painful, to say the least, plus you get to pee through a little screened funnel to catch the damn thing for lab analysis later. Anyway, finally excreted the stone, after all that, was no larger than the end of the graphite tip on a regular #2 pencil. The doc said oh, we can just remove the stent wtithout putting you under (like they did for the stent insertion), I immediately NO %*#!ING WAY! and was out cold for the stent removal. Lesson takeaway - with strenuous exercise in hot climates, drink water like fricking crazy (urine should be no darker than a
ReplyDeletelight straw color), if you're thirsty, you're already behind....
I distinctly recall back in my high school days a bunch of us guys sitting around viewing and discussing Farah's iconic swimsuit photo. One of my classmates commented that he didn't find her attractive at all. It was at that point I became concerned for his mental health and visual acuity.
ReplyDelete...would've had to question his sexual preference....
DeleteBeen there, done that - the first 5 times were the worst.
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