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So You Have a Kidney Stone, eh?

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ai generated image via freepik      Recently about 2 weeks ago, I sat down and held my 10 month old daughter at home after eating at my girlfriends brothers house with them, and everything seemed all fine and dandy. Suddenly, and I mean suddenly, I had the absolute worst pain of all time in my groin. It struck me like a bolt of lightning and soon I was toppled over barely able to walk. My girlfriend asked if I needed the emergency room and of course I said "no" at first, but then I agreed to go because it wasn't going away and the throbbing was unbearable. My first ER trip for this went terribly; the nurses absolutely sucked and were rude. It was about 10:15 p.m. and they just weren't having my whining (because I was in terrible pain). They didn't do anything or check anything, they waited until I puked in the bathroom (from the pain) and then discharged me. I could barely sleep, was in severe pain, and had no pain medications. I woke up the next morning after tos...

That One Time I Watched 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' With My Brothers

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 by rhett rhodes - twitter: @rhettrhodes98 *SPOILERS; details of film's plot is spilled out here*     One of my favorite things to do is to show people the movies that I hold near and dear, and the weirder the movie, the better the experience. I bought this movie on DVD on a whim randomly years back and I watched it over and over again; of course, I'm talking about Yorgos Lanthimos' 2017 masterpiece ' The Killing of a Sacred Deer '. The movie is a masterpiece to me and that's all that matters, I don't care who claims it isn't. It's not Yorgos' best, but I would never claim it as his worst. The film centers around a teenager named Martin who holds an everlasting grudge on the doctor and surgeon played by Colin Farrell that was too drunk to save his father during a life threatening heart surgery, and places a curse on him that will slowly kill each member of his family unless he sacrifices one member to save the others. To me, that plot was crazy a...