Well, after being rushed to the Emergency Room on January 3 with   
   severe abdominal pain...and neither eating food or having a bowel   
   movement would stop it, my worst fears were realized.   
      
     The pain was caused by a kidney stone that had moved down into the   
   urinary bladder...and it was confirmed by ultrasound yesterday. When I   
   visited my Mom in the nursing home on Wednesday, to let her know what   
   was going on, the black nurse standing there (she's a character unto   
   herself ), grinned wildly, and said to my Mom, "HE'S PREGNANT!!"    
      
     While there are no new stones in the kidneys, there is apparently a 9   
   millimeter stone in the bladder. While the urethra is bigger than the   
   ureters, I won't pass this one without surgery...and without a lot of   
   bleeding...never mind "a period from the penis" (I had that once before,   
   and panicked).   
      
     So, I am waiting on the surgery scheduler to call me, and I've worked   
   out a ride for it, since I won't be able to drive. It likely will be   
   done at the Centerview Surgery Center, adjacent to Arkansas Urology's   
   Little Rock office, next to the Arkansas Prostate Cancer Center. What I   
   dread most is the catheter, and bladder spasms afterwards.   
      
     At least I'm about 50 pounds lighter than I was in August...but I'm   
   still classed as "obese" with my body mass index at 36.   
      
   Daryl   
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