Kidney Stone FREE!

Today marks the end of a long journal for me. For those who do not know, I found out 2 months ago I had a kidney stone the size of a peanut inside my kidney. The last few months have been full of x-rays, CT scans, and surgery. I had minor surgery at the beginning of April called Lithotripsy. This procedure consist of a shock way to break the stone up into pieces making it easier for me to pass the kidney stone. Surgery went well, in fact I did not have a lot of pain. Today I had my follow up appointment after surgery. They wanted to take another x-ray to see if I had passed all the stone. Just a side note, when you start to recognize most of the hospital staff you know you have spent way too much time at the hospital. After looking at the x-ray with the doctor, he said I am STONE FREE!!! I cannot even say how excited to hear that. I have a few things left I have to do but I am almost done. I have to wait a few weeks for them to analyze the stones and then I will know what the stone is made of and hopefully know how to prevent them in the future.
I just want to say thank you to all my friends and family who have supported me through these last few months.

Double Date in Boulder

This weekend we went on a double date with our friends Luke and Karra. Steve planned this date all by himself. If any of you know Steve, he is very creative when it comes to dates. We played photo scavenger hunt in Boulder, Colorado. There is street in Boulder called "Pear Street", it is basically a long walkway with different shopping stores. We split up in teams and each had a list of photos to take. The list consist of pictures with a bathroom sign, VW Bug, bonus points if with an older model, anything rainbow, ice cream, concert poster,

sign with Boulders name on it, walking in an alley, street vendor, holding a post card, ect. We had a blast! We set the time for one hour for each couple to get as many pictures as they could off the list and if both people where in the picture, you got double points. Well, we got every picture but one and we won!! After we played photo scavenger hunt, we went to a near by park and had dinner. It was a fun night out.