Materia Medica

[arisbe]

Thanks to all for your thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

And to the divine poppy.

And a new pain med called something very much like taradiddle.

And two bags of saline drip.

Under the influence of which I made an off color remark. The color in question being a very dark red.

"Oh, they pricked your finger."
"At least they didn't finger my prick."

And Barsanuphius, a stuffed animal of indeterminate species which Srsti (yes the r is a vowel, deal with it) brought back to the emergency room from her late dinner break. I should have called him Peter for two reasons, but that would have been pompously Papistical.

The offending particle, when I pissed it out attempting to produce sufficient urine to insert a dipstick into, was insultingly small, at least compared to some of the things I have passed in the past, especially after the lithotripsy.

Home by midnight.

Comments

[arichi.livejournal.com]

I am very glad to hear that you are well. Your remark while on medication is far more ?interesting? than the one I made under similar circumstances the first time I was taken to a hospital for stones. I remember asking, "would these be four needles in Rome?"

It has been about a year since I last had a kidney stone show up. My kidneys haven't even given me trouble in that time period. I hope you go at least as long - preferably, much longer - without any trouble.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I, on the contrary, find your four needles more interesting, as I have no idea what they might be.

[arichi.livejournal.com]

Well, in Roman Numerals, IV is four. So, IV needles become four needles.

[it took my roommate a while to understand what I was saying when I first told the joke]

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Duh. Gotcha. Like the student who asks, Who was this Pope Malcolm the Tenth?

[arichi.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Or at least the same idea.