I know, I know.  National Online Kidney Stone Awareness Month seems to have been going on for at least twice that.  Maybe even more.  But it’s almost over!

After working her way through the bureaucratic nightmare that is the American Healthcare System (and in fact even “moving to Denver” to qualify for the “non-emergency surgery” that she needed to “not lose her kidney”), Autumn is finally stone free!  Gifts of congratulations can be sent to PO Box 462006, Aurora, CO, 80046, c/o Brian Cutaia.

Anyway…there’s only one last tiny detail to be tended to.  After the surgery, the doctors had to insert one final stent into Autumn’s ureter.  She had the option to either have the stent removed later in one last operation, OR receive a stent with a string attached…one which she would need to pull out herself a few days later.  So, needless to say, she currently has a string hanging out of her urethra.  Monday night, we’re gonna get her really drunk and yank that sucker out.  Basically, my girlfriend is a badass.

I’ll let you know how it goes.