So today I was receiving a RTB that I found on Craigslist. She was coming with a 4 ft viv so I needed to rearrange my room a bit so A) I could quarantine her away from my established ball. B) that's a big ol cage! And C) she hasn't been handled much in the past few months so I wanted to give her a nice quiet place to settle in. So (being a military man) my wife and I go to work.

Now mind you we weren't doing a lot of strenuous moving just a bit of rearranging. Well about 3/4 the way through my lower right back under my ribs but above my waist starts to ache. I thought no big del and continued to work. All of a sudden it really stars to hurt I me IT FREAKING HURT. So I take a minute to sit down and try to stretch it out. No dice. As a matter of fact the pain got way worse and also was starting to hurt my stomach. Then it happened, I started to throw up...I'm talking Excorcist style streams. I thought it must have been some bad pizza I had last night.

Well my wife being concerned told me I should go to the hospital. Well I'm all manly so no I'm not going. More Excorcist happens and I tell her I am going to the hospital and would return shortly. I drove myself and see the doc. After some blood work, a UA and a CT scan, he comes back and shakes my hand. He tells me that I got to be the manliest man in the world because I have a 9mm x 5mm kidney stone. He says that people with a 1mm stone look like they have been shot. Now comes the bad news...surgery on Monday.

But I got my snake and she is beautiful!