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Old 08-05-2009, 11:18 AM   #30
Art-n-Marge
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Yup, I have also heard from a female coworker that she'd take childbirth ANY DAY over passing a stone. As she described it, when having a baby the body is designed to experience some stretching while passing a bowling ball, but the kidneys tubes are NOT designed to stretch at all, so that's why she thinks the pain is more.

I'll take her word for it since I have had 3 kidney stones in my short life and now know that the pain is worse than childbirth, not that I care to experience the comparison. But they were nowhere near 3/4" in diameter. That is a kidney boulder, not a kidney stone. I would not want to pass that out via conventional means. Since mine were so small, my doctor told me to tough it out and I did.

But that tumor is whole other story. Good luck to you, Glenn. Keep up the spirits. Thanks for the progress reports to keep us from wondering.
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