Starting last Friday, I began passing a kidney stone. The journey from the kidney to the bladder is the really painful part that ended late Saturday. After my soccer match on Sunday, I passed the stone, at the 9am position in the photo above, and all the smaller stones (really more like really big grains of sand with a few smallish stones) backed up behind it. In case you are wondering, these are captured with a device similar to a tea strainer. The primary stone measured 3.8mm L x 2.5mm D and was very pointy on both ends. I apologize if this is TMI, but since this is the journal of my life, I feel it is appropriate to document the good, the bad, and the ugly.