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The Squamidian Report – July 9 / 22
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Issue #1050

Hey There,

Had you read last week’s issue, which you haven’t because no one has, you’d know about my kidney stone attack and how miserable my life became. Well, this past Thursday morning at about 4am, I passed that damn stone. After 11 days of on and off incredible pain, it left. It left me exhausted too but it left. That night had been about as miserable as possibly imaginable. I had been in pain at bed time and the pain just kept on growing and spreading until about 1am when I took a heavy duty pain killer. That helped until about 3 at which time it started to feel like a replay of the night it all started. I ended up on the can for an hour, wondering if I was going to get stomach sick. By about 4 I could feel something happening but just sort of because the pain was all consuming. At one point I think I felt something moving though the lower plumbing and then my insides began to relax a bit. I went back to bed and actually fell asleep. Didn’t wake up until 6:30 or so and felt almost normal. My innards were out of sorts and tender but the PAIN was gone. The background stomach ache was getting less and less. I had indeed passed the stone, my ordeal was basically over. It took the rest of the day to really feel right but being pain free is so nice. Funny thing is, during the ordeal I had barely felt my bad hip as it palled in comparison. Now that the kidney stone pain is gone, I’m aware of my hip again. Thats life, I guess.

Here we are in almost mid July and everything is covered with a green yellow layer of pollen. Pollen season should have been over months ago but it has stayed so cold and wet that the trees have just kept on pumping the stuff out. My blueberries are totally confused. Some are in blossom, that should have been over with in April. Some have little white berries that are a couple of months behind. This time last year I was picking the berries every day. This year they may not ripen in time at all. Bummer.

June had set new rainfall records by the end of it’s first week. Well, so has July, new records before the first week was even over.

doug

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