Kidney Stones — Oh, the Pain!

Danna Reich Colman
2 min readJan 14, 2021

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I was 18 weeks pregnant and had the most unbelievable knife-like shooting pains in my left side. I actually fell off the toilet, writhing on the floor in agony. No cell phones then. Couldn’t even crawl to the phone. My husband was in trial in downtown Los Angeles, and when he came home, he found me on the bathroom floor.

We went to Cedars Sinai emergency, and they gave me an enema and said I was constipated…

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Danna Reich Colman

Writer, author and copyeditor. “What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about” ~ J. Wright