B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 04, 2021

An older co-worker said his kidney stone hurt worse than when he was shot in Korea. That sounds painful!

LITHOTRIPTER.

I got down on the floor in front of the reception desk. They had to help me to the exam room. It’s hard to see where you’re going when you are bent double.

Well, life stones you when you’re trying to be so good

Life stones you in the kidney region, dude

It’ll stone you when you’re trying to go home

And it’ll stone you when you’re there all alone

But with a stone you would not feel so all alone

Everybody must get stoned

You think that was bad, imagine a huge sword instead of a dagger when he had to pee the stone out. And it wasn’t his gut the sword is jammed into. ;-)

Very accurate.

I’ve got a friend who had kidney stones, he named his.. Rocky and Stoney.

In the world of BC, it seems almost half of the people had kidney stones. And nobody died from it.

Et Tu, kidney stone?

I’m starting to suspect someone involved with the strip had a kidney stone.

This month’s Scientific American has an article on kidney stones. I have not read it yet.

Kidney Stones – the band Mick Jagger belonged to before he made it big.

Is it cruel to wish kidney stones on incredibly mean and nasty people – I mean super obnoxious bullies and such?

I’ve had a couple over the years, fortunately not in the past 10 or so. The daggers were aimed a little lower, as I recall. An analysis of the stones showed try were composed of calcium, so I stopped drinking milk … problem solved.

Will this be a series on painful physical conditions or is this just a dreary week of reader pain?

Mine were a mix of calcium and some mineral found in spinach. I never drank much milk to start with, but used to eat spinach a lot! I cut way back on the spinach after four stones in a five year period. It’s been 12 years, and I’ve had one lingering, hanging on to the side of my kidney, this whole time. Never changes in size or location, so I guess I’m doing something right. :-)

Yeah OK we get how painful a kidney stone is from the last few days. How much longer will this not funny at all comic story line will go on? And what will the next story line coming up be? The heartbreak of psoriasis?

If you want funny, listen to Jeff Foxworthy and his telling of his kidney stone. I was in my car listening. I had to find a parking lot and pull into it I was laughing so hard. (I’ve had 3, so I know what he was talking about!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANOaHmE-G8

On a pain scale of 1-10, passing a less-than-2mm stone was about a 17. I’d RATHER have been shot.

I wonder is cavemen had kidney stones. Since they drank water pretty much all the time and maybe a little wine and the occasional mead, they might not have had that pain in their life. Being gored and trampled by horned beasts while on a hunt was probably quite enough.

Shoonk ? shik ? Really ??

E tu, BC?

I’ve taken care of many a female patient that has had kidney stone. I ask them if they’ve ever had children, and if they say yes, I ask if they’d prefer the vaginal delivery or the kidney stone. All but 1 have said they’d prefer to have the child birth.

I’m a panzy when it comes to pain, so I know I don’t want to ever have a stone.

I used to be able to pick out their chief complaint across the Emergency Department. No one rocks, and rolls, and sweats, and cries, and breathes like a kidney stoner. It’s just such a unique presentation.

Knife in the back , oh yea that pretty much covers the pain of kidney stones , Sword to the gut was the pain of Gall stones ! ( two of them about 7/16" each )

Oh. And I thought he was walking through one of those areas in one of those cities.

I have experienced several kidney stones in the past and the renal cholic that occurs every time they move is unbearable! If there is worse pain, I sure hope I never have to endure it ! I had one so large that it required major invasive surgery with an incision that was approximate ly 10" long! The stone was the size of a marble but with stallactites! But wait, it gets worse! After I recovered from the surgery and returned to work, I started experiencing renal cholic again and the xray showed that another stone had lodged in my ureter at the site of the surgery and couldn’t be surgically removed! I carried a RX from my Urologist that said “If this man presents with renal cholic administer morphine SO4 and call my practice!” I finally passed it in a hot tub at a hotel in San Diego a week or so later on a business trip!

A little lower with that one knife!

The old proverb says: “A rolling stone gathers no moss” The new proverb says: "A rolling kidney stone gathers, Ouch, Oh my back, Oh, the pain, The pain, It’s like a knife in my back, Oh No…

Based on this week’s B.C. comics and the comments therein, I pray that I never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever get a kidney stone.

Me thinks the author/artist passed a kidney stone recently.

Did Mastroianni go through this recently? This is not something you talk about unless you or someone you know has “experienced” such a thing. I have not, but the husband of a former employee did several years ago.

That’s just like with gall stones! It felt like I was stabbed in my stomach with a knife…

If your a male and you decide to pass it, it the male version of having a baby.

Worst pain I ever had. Watched my father walk around in the emergency room with enough demerol in him to knock down an elephant. The nurse kept telling him he had to lay down and he told her “lady it hurts too much to lay down”

The only time I ever saw my father crying with pain was from a kidney stone—and he had a lot of painful injuries.

I think that stiletto in the front probably hit lower than the cartoon can show. But I don’t know. I’m fortunate to have never had one. (Knock on wood).

Oy!

My dad was throwing up when he had those. Once he got that taken care of, he was fine.

Not even close. More like a herd of miniature acid dripping fanged beavers are building a dam in your kidney.

True story.

I was on the table in the ER, curled into a fetal position trying to crawl out of my body. The curtain moved and there was a female in scrubs I had not seen in my 2 hours on the table. Nor did I see her again during my journey.

She looked at me with a smug smirk and icy daggers in her eyes and in an acid dripping voice said “Now you know what its like to have a baby.” She turned, the curtain swayed and she was gone.

What did I ever do to deserve this? Who was she? What is her mission in life? Was I random victim or did she do that to all male kidney stone patients.

to me the worst part is after the pain there is no bundle of joy to hold.

Never had the experience – wouldn’t the pain be a little lower?

Mine felt like someone standing on my b%$#s while putting a knife in my lower back.

Did you have a problem, Hart?

That was the Stone Age

Said to be the worst pain a man can have.

Note the word “man”.

I’ve had kidney stones 5 separate times. The only thing missing from this illustration is fire coming out of those knives.