Saturday I had my third, and hopefully last (I wish), Kidney Stone. I woke up at 8am, felt a burning pain in my lower back on the right side. No matter what direction I sat, how much I cracked my back, or my use of the bathroom, there was nothing that could stop this constant pain. I knew almost right away that I was the third-time victim of a Kidney Stone by the symptoms the others had granted me. I was hesitant getting medical attention though I did have liquid codeine from my tonsillectomy. Unlike the two other Kidney Stones my body had produces over the last four years, this one followed other bodily symptoms I was concerned about. I wasn’t sure if it was something else, like my pancreas or something deep in my digestive system.
My hesitation to call for help lasted for about ten minutes. My parental units were off to their typical Saturday breakfast at an unknown location when I decided to call Martha who was to be at work at 9:30am. I ended up calling her initially at 8:30am stating that I may need medical attention, but not to worry. I then called her back at 8:45 (or maybe earlier) pleading with her to bring me to the Grand Haven Hospital.
It wasn’t long until she was at my house and we were on the road. I was in great pain as she drove me there. I was emitted into the emergency room (ER) right away and because the doctor was busy with another patient it took them another half-hour to get pain killers in me. As they were administering the pain killers and nausea medication I asked for a bucket that I then proceeded to vomit into. A lot of vomit came out. I filled that sucker more than half the way. I was impressed. The nurse said that most patients who have that amount of pain from Kidney Stones throw up; that was my first time ever doing it.
Whatever drug they gave me knocked me out. I slept for 24 hours on and off from 11am Saturday to 11am Sunday. During this time they gave me a cat-scan using a Panasonic dough-nut looking xray machine (from what I remember). They told me to hold still, and the machine randomly asked me to hold my breath as it scanned. I remember falling asleep as I was holding my breath and waking up still holding it. I wonder how long that would have lasted?
Well, I’m all better for now. I’ve decided to cut back on carbonated beverages (one of the top causes for Kidney Stones). My insides feel like I have been beaten and bruised.
Wish me luck!
-Daniel Slaughter
January 8th, 2007
My girlfriend’s, Martha’s, parents bought me a racing jersey along with gift cards to various places (Meijer’s Gas Station, Rivertown Crossings, Movie Theatres). This racing jersey is pretty nice. I was not expecting them to spend that much on me. I had assumed they bought me clothing because it was wrapped in one of those boxes you would get with clothing in it. Here are a couple pictures, taken with my LG VX8600, that show me in my gear:
Ain’t I fancy?
Martha’s Sister got us a gift certificate to Applebees, and her mom bought her a gift certificate to the Comedy Den. I suppose dinner and entertainment is on them this year! =)
I bought Martha a Rubiks cube because she had mentioned she wanted one a while back. It was one of those random presents you get someone because you don’t expect them to guess it. Anyways, at Martha’s Christmas party they were having the pass around game where you each select or steal a present from someone else. The present I managed to get contained another Rubiks cube!!! Which is sweet, because I stole Martha’s and wouldn’t give it back.
From my parents I got assorted clothes and a Ronco Dehydrator. This dehydrator will come in handy for making delicious dehydrated fruits and assorted jerky products. I have yet to use it, but I will let you know when I do.
I think that’s pretty much it for now. I have two more Christmas parties to go to this week, so I’m sure I’ll have more to report when those are done.
-Daniel Slaughter
December 26th, 2006
I went to The Verve Pipe concert at the Intersection Saturday night. It was pretty sweet. Here are some pictures of the concert I took with my LG VX8600:
I have a movie that’s in my cell-phone’s .3g2 format. I’ll find a converter and then post it for you to see in the future. It is 45 seconds of The Verve Pipe’s “Colors.”
Until Next Time,
Daniel Slaughter
December 26th, 2006
Today, just for fun, I searched Google.com for the term “Daniel Slaughter” and found my site first in the 1,210,000 results returned.
Oh what a beautiful Christmas present!
The one (literally),
-Daniel Slaughter
December 25th, 2006
I would just like to say: Merry Christmas to everyone!
Website Updates:
I’ve posted a new version of Switch Board on the Projects Page. I’ve so far developed two version in the last few days. The first one was a re-write of the Classic Switch Board using a .htaccess file to route pages through one file for security and url display purposes (2.0.0). The second version adds additional authentication features to limit users who are not logged in based on a session variable from viewing internal pages.
December 25th, 2006
I purchased a Linksys-Cisco WRT54GL from amazon.com. This router is pretty good, it has excellent options and good output distance. I needed to go from the house to the shop (~100 feet). The signal does a good job going through two foundation walls and through the outdoors.
This gives a Low-Good signal on my laptop, however, it does not work well with the network cards I purchased. In the shop it was getting No Signal to Very-Low. To the computers in my room, I get a Low-Good, ~75% Signal Strength, ~%90 Link Quality (so there is no problem there). There must be some interference or something near/in the shop.
I was at the mall today and went into radio shack just to check out if they had any cheap name brand (Linksys) cards that might get a better signal. They had a USB connector with a -$40 instant rebate for $20! So I purchased it, installed it, and the shop is now getting Low-Good signal.
Now all I need is to call Charter, w00t,
Daniel Slaughter
December 10th, 2006
Why is it…
written but not writting?
command, comma, commend, but not comme?
December 7th, 2006
At the beginning of the school year I had to create a VXML script that allowed people to communicate over a phone with a “pretend” operator. [Prototype1]
This time around we had to make it into a webpage (we could have used other languages, but html was my option of choice). He showed us an example of what he wanted, so I pretty much made that (it’s ugly). Mine is written in HTML and JavaScript. I used PHP to display the content posted to the confirmation page, I’m sure I could do that with JavaScript if I looked hard enough, but I’d rather it just work. [Prototype2]
December 5th, 2006
I added my first attempt at Application PHP to the Projects page. Give me feedback if you think it’s the sweetest thing ever. I plan on adding additional features over christmas break.
December 4th, 2006
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