I spent July 5 to July 8 in Ocean City, NJ with my sister and her family (my brother-in-law, 3 nephews and my new niece). It felt great to get out of my prison for a few days to a place that holds a good number of happy memories growing up. Sitting on the beach and watching my nephews play in the sand, watching the waves crash, feeling the breeze of the ocean air on my face and in my lungs, then walking the boardwalk at night (slow though I am) - the happy feelings washed over me and I felt alive again.
Of course, the reminder that I shouldn't remain happy was the constant pissing of blood each night...but there was a reason for that.
Happiness is not meant to last, especially for me, so after getting home on Sunday, July 8, I immediately got a migraine Monday night, lasting into Wednesday, but not to be left with simple suffering, I was also visited by 2 super large kidney stones that took 5 days to move from my right kidney to my bladder, and then out on Sunday, July 15. So on Tuesday, July 10, I had a full-blown migraine AND kidney pains.
The two stones were 2cm x 1cm and 1cm x 1cm. Imagine those shooting out of your penis!
You'd think that would have been enough for one person for a while...not me.
Fate, it seems, was unhappy about me feeling the sense of Life again, if only for a few days.
Monday, July 16 saw a return of another migraine, lasting just under 24 hours, and then Thursday, July 26 gifted me with 2 more, smaller (but no less painful) kidney stones.
These were about 1/2cm x 1/2cm each.
BUT, I now have something else to look forward to in September, a trip is being planned, that I'm both excited and worried about...but that's for next time.
RobMac
