Check out People’s Pharmacy for some natural home remedies to prevent kidney stones. This site is one of my favorites for natural remedies and the latest information on the side affects of certain medications. The site was created by two pharmacists who felt there was an overuse of chemical medications and wanted people to know there are many natural cures for some conditions. Lot’s of great information on this site.
@unk-p, I'm so sorry you're going through that ordeal. Take care of yourself as best you can. Glad you'll be having the stones analyzed. I bet the necklace/earrings will be funky great looking -- you may even start a trend.
Sending healing prayers and love your way, my friend.
Hey to all us lounge lizards, what do you think of this scenario:
My condolences dear Unk ....
I can only imagine what kinda pain that is, and wonder if you might check out the 'pulverizing' non-invasive surgery that's done with Sonic waves methinks .... ?
An old wedgatarian friend I recall had this procedure (major stones from eating huge amounts of peanut butter all the time), and it worked ....
Sending you strong intentions for healing dear friend, and lullabys from Pink Floyd ?
I'll see you on The Dark Side of the Moon ..... ?
@unk-p. I’m so sorry to hear you’ve not been feeling well. Kidney stones are the worst. I am sending you healing and peace of mind. Take as much time as you need to heal and recuperate. Take care, my friend.
Anything's possible. I can't wait to see the long list of slimy snakes he pardons tomorrow.
I am brought up to the Rooftop Lounge wasabi seaweed from Trader Joe's.
Who wants some before it is all gone?
@lovendures @lowtide @polarberry @ana @lenor @deetoo @febbby23 @stargazer @bluebelle Thank you all for the well-wishing and the healing vibes! Have i told you lately how much i love this family? Because i really do.
It was extremely painful, until they gave me morphine. But then i couldn't keep any food down for 4 days afterwards. I couldn't even read, either, w/o getting sick. Not sure why, this never happened after the other times i had them. Oh, well, i had been meaning to lose a few lbs. anyway.
@lenor, thanks for telling me about the People's Pharmacy- that looks like a great resource!
@febbby23, i read that having a large glass of lemon water 20 minutes before eating breakfast is supposed to help. But your brother may already know about that? Sorry that he has had to go thru it as well.
@stargazer- so wild that you mentioned Dark Side of the Moon, because i didn't feel like getting dressed today, and just threw on an old Pink Floyd t-shirt. You know, that black one, w the triangle and prism. Hehheh. BTW, what is a wedgetarian? someone who only eats Iceberg Wedge salads? hope not, because, eww.
Anyways, thanks again, @everybody!
@unk-p. I am so sorry you are suffering from of all things, kidney stones. Damn. I had them once and they were the most painful thing other than childbirth. In fact, they were as painful as childbirth. They gave me intravenous fluids which helped pass the stone, but it wasn't until the nurse, at my insistence, put her hand on the painful spot, that the stone passed and the pain went away. I don't know what is causing yours. Mine came from too much vitamin D.
We sent healing tonight and will keep sending it, dear friend. Kitty will also help.
@jeanne-mayell thank you Jeanne! This is probably the 8th or 9th time i have had them. The x-ray they took Thursday showed a lot more of them still in my kidney (they only hurt when they leave the kidney and start moving thru the tube, to the bladder). I feel pretty good right now. It is amazing how grateful someone can feel, just to be able to do mundane things (like washing dishes, or taking out trash), after coming off of a very painful time.
@lovendures wasabi seaweed? yes please! those are my favorite parts of sushi.
Peace & love to you both
unk,
Do you realize when you said you've been meaning to shed a few pounds anyway that that's exactly what Frosty said when he went with Karen into the greenhouse to hide from Professor Hinkle?
I was wondering why that statement had a nagging familarity. ?
Really a joy to see you back Unk! Are you celebrating (with sushi & caviar) and maybe some.... Pink Floyd? ?
Today was one of the happiest days of my life too ....
(And wedgatarian is Swedish for 'wegan' btw ;)
hey @stargazer! love you too! i am celebrating, but w Shiner bock, not sushi. Never tried caviar- does it come in a wegan wersion? and you know what? the early Pink Floyd is what i like- the albums Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Saucerful of Secrets and that kind of thing. I was thinking of doing a weekly Psychedelic Psundays show, here in the lounge. It would be kinda like a Gospel Brunch, but with wah-wah pedals and fuzz-boxes. what do you think?
The Psych Psundaze show would be brilliant Unk ....!!
Please save us from ourselves and do it .... ???
Ah no wonder you had the kidney stone reference in the other thread! I'm so sorry you are experiencing this ? I will pray and sending healing love and light to you unk-p!
NOTE: as I started to do that just now I felt tingles all over and I saw a blond haired Angel around you! ?
When I was a little kid, I used to be in a heartbroken panic on Christmas Eve wondering how in the world Professor Hinkle was going to write, "I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty" one hundred zillion times before Christmas morning so he could get a present. Maybe I am an empath LOL
I am over fifty now and it still cracks me up when Hinkle blows out Karen's campfire with a single puff of air. And I love Hocus!
Frosty has been my favorite since birth.
Hey Rooftop Revolving Lounge Folks! A round of drinks on me :-)
When the Pandemic first set in just under a year ago, I had just finished directing a HS Musical (Guys and Dolls) and I'm right now entering into directing a new high school musical (We're doing a 9 member cast of A Prairie Home Companion episodes with some music from contemporary musicals inbetween. We'll be recording it and releasing it via the Interwebs.
Community theater has been a thing for me the last few years. Directing. Starring. Supporting. All of the above. I got the chance to play Max Bialystock in the Producers a few years ago and it may have turned into my favorite role ever.
Zoom fatigue (I promise all of this is related) is a real thing, and this week in work from home, I had more Zooms than I've had since last spring when everyone thought this would be over by May and therefore, in the meantime, everything had to be done via Zoom to ensure we were all working. I honestly left my last Zoom meeting today and said "I never want to do this again."
Here's where this all connects, I promise. During today's Zooms I was taking some of my community theater photos from the archives, and adding Bernie in to some of them. It was an amazing amount of fun. I did everyone else, and then today I decided to do myself, and then post the pic on Instagram. I tagged my co-star, an incredible friend I only made two years ago who I couldn't imagine ever having lived without in the post. He moved in September downstate, so I literally haven't seen him in person in over a year. We've been texting regularly.
Darned if that guy didn't immediately FaceTime me! We talked for almost two hours (I did get passed to his wife for a little while, who I also love dearly because she was also in shows with me throughout the past few years).
So my new hypothesis is that Zoom Fatigue is a real thing, but only when you're doing it for things that could have been an email, or that go on too long. Because if our phone batteries hadn't died, we'd still be FaceTiming :-)
And to finish this random rooftop revolving lounge post off, here's a picture of me as Max Bialystock with Bernie Sanders in the Producers. (This was the last thing I did before I started doing the Keto diet and dropped 80 pounds) - I'm going to have to resurrect that coat, because *tiger growl*.
Thanks for the Rooftop lounge. I had to tell this random story tonight :-)
