Kind hearts & Kidney Stones

Apparently, passing a Kidney stone is more painful than giving birth. This is the fun that I was having yesterday.

A week into my new job working as an accounts assistant at Seeboard, I leave work early complaining of a back ache. As i drive home, the pain is getting progressively worse. When I get home I have a lie down and wonder if a shower might help, then decide that an ambulance might be better placed to help as I writhe about in pain. The ambulance arrives just about as I start vomiting. As I'm taken down to the Ambulance Joanne faints, because of low blood pressure, and is helped down too. They give me some gas (as they do with pregnant women) but that doesn't help much. In fact I start hyperventila5ting and my hands lock up. When I get to the hospital they use me as a pin-cushion for a bit before they're happy they've injected me right, and give me some morphine which makes everything nice and woozy. Nap time.

Well that was the worst of it over, I have some X-Rays and blood tests, and I must have passed the stone at some point - which can be as small as just a wee spec of sand. My mum happens to be in the area, visiting the student house so is able to drop by the hospital, which is only good and right when you're poorly.

Amanda's wedding snapshots

Joanne has added a selection of about 60 of the best of the photos from the disposable cameras on the tables at Amanda's wedding reception to my online photoalbum:

http://www.photoaccess.com/share/guest.jsp?ID=A92D2328B86
&cb=PA

If you have a fast enough computer, the best way to look at them is in a
slideshow - click on launch viewer, then slideshow.
There's lots of Amanda, Chris, the bridesmaids, Tony, Penny, Peter, Me & Jo,
Sumit, Sue, David, Tom, Rebecca, Rob & Erica and a scattering of others as
well.

Tom's Testimonial

People saying nice things about me would definitely appear in my top 10 of things that I like people to say about me.

"Seddon taught me everything I know. Hail him. He brings tha bling to all he touches, much like a gangsta Midas. I now want to become a hiphop hiker and say of myself "I put the 'bling' into 'rambling'." I digress. But this is the stuff that Mark is made of. What a legend. "

From Friendster http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=1178417