There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.
If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.
Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.
The Staff of SOH
Ickie, get to a doctor and have it checked out. Kidney infection or a stone is not fun at all, and could really knock you silly.
I'm almost 70 now. Had a kidney stone about 11 yrs ago. I do not remember ANYTHING being worse than that. Had a bout of gout buy K-stones are much worse. Not even a gall bladder prob was that bad.
![]()
I have never given birth (obviously) but I have had cracked ribs (twice), torn muscles in my lower back (thanks to my own stupidity), almost ripped my thumb off in an industrial accident as a 17 year old apprentice and passed a kidney stone and the stone was by far the most painful experience I have ever had. Passing the stone was not too painful but the lead up to that point certainly was.I was assured after my kidney stone, by a very upper class lady in the London department store I worked at, that the pain is worse than child birth!! Ickie, you have my deepest sympathy mate. :salute:
It's those curly florescent light bulbs, you need to go back to incandescent!