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Stoned--Not For the Squeamish!

The pain is like child birth, it hits sudden and hard
Don't try to endure go and get some help
Fluids help to flush the little prickly pear stone, down the internal pipes.
But it is not a quick and easy flush.
Think skinning your urethras open to urine's burn.
Time heals all wounds, lots of time...


Dedicated to all those who have suffered from kidney stones.

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Joe Fisher

Date: 6/26/2010 2:23:00 AM

doris-"think skinning your urethras open to urine's burn", get what your saying.kickass line.

Adeleke Adeite

Date: 6/23/2010 11:10:00 AM

This is a wonderful piece! Accept my colorful congrats on having this poem featured this week. You are such a nice poet! Please, keep your poetry pens dancing on your poetry pad. I wish you all the best with your writing. Love ~Adeleke~

Iolanda Scripca

Date: 6/21/2010 5:51:00 PM

Very interesting poem here. Congratulations on being featured this week. Love, Iolanda

John Loving Iii

Date: 6/21/2010 2:38:00 PM

this is a punishment.john

Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 6/21/2010 8:39:00 AM

Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Doris. May you have many more features. Love, Carol

Mitch White

Date: 6/21/2010 3:22:00 AM

omg why did I read this- you put warning too!! Ooooooooooo

Linda Milgate

Date: 6/20/2010 10:37:00 AM

Heard about them and this sounds right on. Ouch, good depiction. Suspect from experience. Hope better now.

Gert W. Knop

Date: 6/19/2010 6:15:00 PM

Oh dear, so well written, Doris! My best friend suffered from kidney stones. I must be terribly painful. Thank you for your comment on "Blundering Stones". I didn't go to a restaurant but I also enjoy Italian food and prepare often Italian melas for myself. We can buy 'Panini Rustici" here I do love these crunchy bread rolls..They taste really like the original Italian ones. I don't like the soft Hamburger rolls...I also have my own recipe for burgers...Have a nice Sunday...Gert

John Freeman

Date: 6/18/2010 8:03:00 PM

Yes thanks. I have had them twice. But it has been many years since. I don't desire to have them again. Agape, Moses

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 6/18/2010 10:01:00 AM

That must really have hurt the one who went thru the stones. I've seen my dad in so much pain over it, exactly the way you explain here. Enjoyed the poem, have a nice one,..p.d.

Larry Belt

Date: 6/17/2010 11:49:00 PM

Good write Doris....I know stones very well....I've passed them for twenty years now...12 at one time is the most so far....My definition..."First you think you're dying, then you hope you're dying"....Larry

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 6/17/2010 8:04:00 PM

When my oldest son was 16 he was at the seashore and I was living in Ohio at the time.. I got this phone call ..he was screaming in pain ..it was a kidney stone... my ex rushed him to the hospital.. he spent hours trying to pass it and when he did he called me and said.. MOM if that is what u go through having a baby.. I am glad I am a boy.. haha... and he surely drinks lots of water every day.. your poem is right on target..Doris.. thankxxxx for sharing.. luv.. Linda-Marie.