Kidney Pain, Taking a Day Off...

As the saying went, kidney stones weren't an illness, but when they hurt, they could kill you. The pain ran through my chest and back, so bad I couldn't straighten my waist...

I urged everyone to drink more water, keep early hours, and exercise more.

Thank goodness for advances in technology—no surgery was needed, only extracorporeal lithotripsy. But kidney stones really hurt like hell...

Sigh, I'd always worried about getting hemorrhoids and having my chrysanthemum admired by a pretty female doctor. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect my two steel kidneys to be the ones suffering...