Kidney Stone

If you search Wikipedia for "worst pain ever experienced" the #1 result is "kidney stone". Until a couple of weeks ago I didn't really know what kidney stones were and the worst pain I'd ever experienced was appendicitis nearly six years back.

All that changed, though:

• Sat; arrive back from England
• Sun evening; go to bed just fine
• Mon 7am; go to work as usual
• Mon 1pm; do three back-to-back phone interviews with Google job candidates
• Mon 6pm; go home
• Mon 9pm; go to bed, still jetlagged from England
• Mon 9.05pm; sudden severe pain in left side of abdomen
• Mon 9.10pm; out of bed, agony
• Mon 9.15pm; writhing on floor. Wendy calls an ambulance
• Mon 9.25pm; completely incapacitated, speechless with pain
• Mon 9.30pm; paramedics arrive and deliver oxygen, IV and ECG
• Mon 9.50pm; arrive at the hospital, given intravenous narcotics
• Mon 10.40pm; drugged out out of my mind, receive a CT scan
• Mon 11.15pm; diagnosis from physicians in Australia, working in-timezone (seriously!): kidney stone in right kidney
• Tue 12.15am; arrive home and go to bed
• Tue 8am; painkillers
• Tue 10am; painkillers
• Tue 12pm; painkillers and sleep
• Tue 4pm; write up interview feedback
• Tue 9pm; painkillers and more sleep
• Wed 7am; back to work, not very comfortable, painkillers
• Wed 1pm; three more back-to-back phone interviews
• Wed 8.30pm; "egress" of a kidney stone the size of half a grain of rice
• Wed 8.31pm; feeling fine, pain-free
• Wed 9pm; write up interview feedback

The strangest thing.