{"id":169,"date":"2011-02-06T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickspicscorner.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2012-07-02T23:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:17:25","slug":"something-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/something-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past month or so I’ve been battling a kidney stone.\u00a0 On January 11, 2011 I had a CT scan done and this is what it showed (note:\u00a0 the arrows are my own but based on the report the Urologist received):<\/p>\n

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The black arrow is pointing to the stone (3.5mm in size according to the report) itself in the distal right ureter and the blue arrow and circle are pointing to a slight edema which is preventing the stone from moving forward.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward one month:\u00a0 I think I passed the stone as I saw it leave my body.\u00a0 I pulled it out of the strainer and dutifully placed it in a Ziploc for the Urologist at my next appointment.\u00a0 For the next 24 hours, however, I’m finding it very uncomfortable to urinate and I have a weak stream.\u00a0 As I looked, there was a larger piece of stone right at the external opening of my urethra.\u00a0 After some trouble, it finally passed through.\u00a0 Here’s the result:<\/p>\n

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The larger stone is clearly bigger than 3.5mm and could cover Lincoln’s face on that penny.\u00a0 I feel soooooo much better now, especially since I was looking at surgery to laser the stone.\u00a0 It was explained that they could only use the shockwave treatment if the stone was visible on normal X-Ray, which mine was not (I’m wondering why, given the size of that thing).\u00a0 Hopefully this is the end of the kidney stone saga.\u00a0 Now I can get back to artwork and photography and not have to worry about how I was going to meet my deductible and still keep food in my belly.<\/p>\n

Comments are welcome and encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past month or so I’ve been battling a kidney stone.\u00a0 On January 11, 2011 I had a CT scan done and this is what it showed (note:\u00a0 the arrows are my own but based on the report the Urologist received): The black arrow is pointing to the stone (3.5mm in size according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}