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Box_Opener said:
Hitting day 4 on this kidney stone. Getting real, real tired of the little bastard.
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My middle Son (28) was afflicted with this a few months ago which wouldn't pass organically aided with meds for the pain and suffering so he eventually had to go to the hospital. It was sized about 5mm which is why he really suffered badly till it was removed surgically (he's recovered since and is well now). I wish you well friend during this ordeal.
 
The thing that realllllly sucks is the way the pain “radiates downward.”

Edit: I had a 5mm on the right side two years ago. This one is 3mm on the left and it is so much worse. The thing must be shaped like a boot dagger.
 
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I was on a motorcycle trip in CO with my wife, and a buddy and his wife ,when he had a terrible kidney stone attack. (He'd had them for years.)

Fortunately, I was able to get him to a doctor in Paonia, CO who was able to get him catheterized. (We missed the Joe Cocker concert we were riding to attend at his ranch...but that's life.)

Turned out the doctor, as well as he and his wife, were all from the same town originally...Warsaw, IN.

Small world.
 
Blues said:
I was on a motorcycle trip in CO with my wife, and a buddy and his wife ,when he had a terrible kidney stone attack. (He'd had them for years.)

Fortunately, I was able to get him to a doctor in Paonia, CO who was able to get him catheterized. (We missed the Joe Cocker concert we were riding to attend at his ranch...but that's life.)

Turned out the doctor, as well as he and his wife, were all from the same town originally...Warsaw, IN.

Small world.
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Speaking of small world, I was at the US Embassy in Saigon and ran into a guy I graduated high school with. He was an admiral in the Navy working on a big project there. Shocked to see just how small this world is!
 
91bravo said:
Speaking of small world, I was at the US Embassy in Saigon and ran into a guy I graduated high school with. He was an admiral in the Navy working on a big project there. Shocked to see just how small this world is!
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My parents were on a vacation in Europe when someone they met asked them, (as you may recall my last name is not common), if they were related to someone named..."____". They said yes, that I was their son. It was someone I had worked with in the 70's.

Yep. I've had it happen a few times over the years. Cool when it does...assuming you don't hate the other party.

I ran into people in Alaska that I knew from a shakedown hike we did in NH and Maine back in 1986. I didn't care for a few of the guys and so went with two others who, along with me, didn't care for those others.

As we were coming out of an area in the Wrangells, we ran into them going in. (But I had shared my intended route with the miscreants during the shakedown. Figures they couldn't come up with their own plan.)
 
Love the Tyson quote, it’s so very true!
Blues said:
My parents were on a vacation in Europe when someone they met asked them, (as you may recall my last name is not common), if they were related to someone named..."____". They said yes, that I was their son. It was someone I had worked with in the 70's.

Yep. I've had it happen a few times over the years. Cool when it does...assuming you don't hate the other party.

I ran into people in Alaska that I knew from a shakedown hike we did in NH and Maine back in 1986. I didn't care for a few of the guys and so went with two others who, along with me, didn't care for those others.

As we were coming out of an area in the Wrangells, we ran into them going in. (But I had shared my intended route with the miscreants during the shakedown. Figures they couldn't come up with their own plan.)
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About 20 years ago, Jo and I were on a trip to the mountains when we ran into my dad in a grocery store.


I can count on my hands the number of times I've made a trip to those mountains, and the same is true for him. For us to have both been in the same store in the same place at the same time was pretty random.
 
I just spent the last few hours in a painkiller-induced sharpening haze. Even cleaned up some serrations I’ve been meaning to get to. I just cannot get used to this one particular knife’s cpm-154. I don’t know what it is. It sharpens ok, doesn’t get crazy sharp, but I feel like it dulls if I use even one time. I love everything about this knife otherwise but the steel drives me absolutely nuts. It is always dull. What the heck is going on? Does anyone else have any experiences with this steel? Is this a cpm-154 thing or a heat treat thing?
 
Box_Opener said:
I just spent the last few hours in a painkiller-induced sharpening haze. Even cleaned up some serrations I’ve been meaning to get to. I just cannot get used to this one particular knife’s cpm-154. I don’t know what it is. It sharpens ok, doesn’t get crazy sharp, but I feel like it dulls if I use even one time. I love everything about this knife otherwise but the steel drives me absolutely nuts. It is always dull. What the heck is going on? Does anyone else have any experiences with this steel? Is this a cpm-154 thing or a heat treat thing?
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Pretty good chance they burned the edge when they sharpened it.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
About 20 years ago, Jo and I were on a trip to the mountains when we ran into my dad in a grocery store.


I can count on my hands the number of times I've made a trip to those mountains, and the same is true for him. For us to have both been in the same store in the same place at the same time was pretty random.
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When I moved to this area 18+ years ago, I was in the local Walmart when I spied someone from the rear whose appearance looked familiar.

I walked down the aisle and said "Richard?" and when he turned, as I suspected, it was a defense attorney I had done battle with a couple of times in federal court in Miami.

I was like, "What the hell are you doing here?" and he told me that he had a home in the area for when he wanted to get out of South FL and head to the mountains. He asked me the same and I told him that I had had enough and pulled the plug. (Having bought the home before I was eligible to retire in order to force my hand.)

He, along with one other attorney, was one of the (opposition) people I greatly respected at trial, and who showed respect in the courtroom themselves, and whom I would have turned to had I ever needed a criminal defense attorney. His wife was also a highly regarded attorney herself.

Sadly, his wife and he split up some years later...and he ended his life in South FL unbeknownst to me for quite a while after the fact.

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I ran into him in a Walmart up here in "Mayberry".


R.I.P., RIchard.

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